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summer idyll
Aug. 20th, 2014 11:34 pmI saw Chichi, of all people, at Braintree Station. Unfortunately, she was coming out of Boston, not going into Boston.
I met a woman who also drew portraits and sat still because she knows how annoying moving around is and really likes my Cats Against War t-shirt and a woman from Lithuania.
A woman from Russia did my portrait on a CharlieTicket receipt while I was drawing a man who may or may not be Chinese (okay, that describes every man on Earth)
Emma took a picture of my shirt. She wants us to make art together, so we're going to meet early on next week. We got separated since she had to livetweet all the stuff going on, and we ran into each other at the Aquarium's displays. She always needs bookmarks. I discussed the relationship between penguins and loons with the guy at the table.
Penguins have very dense bones, by the way. So do loons. The main difference is loons can fly. Despite the keel, they're too awkward to fly.
And speaking of penguins, bats have really long pregnancies and their newborns are huge. I wasn't expecting that, mostly because I simply can't imagine a pregnant bat flying about. I picture mommy and daddy bats coming home to a nest to feed their babies for a long time until the babies are developed enough to fly, but no.
Sheep brains are surprisingly small. The Museum of Science had one in a bag people could hold.
I'm sorry I couldn't find her in that crowd, and it was too dark. I couldn't find Gabriella either, alas. If I had to say a nice thing about the rain last week, it's not as difficult to find someone in a group of 300. Since I just remembered that I don't think the area around the Hatch Shell is open at 5 and it's a big Esplanade. So I think we'll have to arrange something.
As for music, they're all paeans to nature and all new to me.
Der Freischutz (Carl Maria von Weber) is an opera set around the end of the Thirty Years War. For a modern version of that war, see The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Syria and Iraq are turning into that). For a fantasy version, read The Black Company. Max makes a pact with Samiel, the dark spirit of the woods, evil is vanquished with the key of C Major.s
The Flower Clock (Jean Françaix) is a seven movement oboe concerto each devoted to a flower that blooms at a specific time, although I'm not quite sure how time works in this situation if day jessamine blooms at 3:00, night-blooming crocus blooms at 10:00, geraniums bloom at 19:00 and night flowering catchflies bloom at 21:00.
The orchestral suite (Edward MacDowell) consists of five movements but I only heard three: In A Haunted Forest, Summer Idyll, and Forest Spirits.
Sibelius' 2nd Symphony was written in Italy. Makes me want to read Lucky's Harvest and The Fallen Moon. Somehow.
burning question: don't you hate when you see someone and they turn out to not be the person you're looking for?
I met a woman who also drew portraits and sat still because she knows how annoying moving around is and really likes my Cats Against War t-shirt and a woman from Lithuania.
A woman from Russia did my portrait on a CharlieTicket receipt while I was drawing a man who may or may not be Chinese (okay, that describes every man on Earth)
Emma took a picture of my shirt. She wants us to make art together, so we're going to meet early on next week. We got separated since she had to livetweet all the stuff going on, and we ran into each other at the Aquarium's displays. She always needs bookmarks. I discussed the relationship between penguins and loons with the guy at the table.
Penguins have very dense bones, by the way. So do loons. The main difference is loons can fly. Despite the keel, they're too awkward to fly.
And speaking of penguins, bats have really long pregnancies and their newborns are huge. I wasn't expecting that, mostly because I simply can't imagine a pregnant bat flying about. I picture mommy and daddy bats coming home to a nest to feed their babies for a long time until the babies are developed enough to fly, but no.
Sheep brains are surprisingly small. The Museum of Science had one in a bag people could hold.
I'm sorry I couldn't find her in that crowd, and it was too dark. I couldn't find Gabriella either, alas. If I had to say a nice thing about the rain last week, it's not as difficult to find someone in a group of 300. Since I just remembered that I don't think the area around the Hatch Shell is open at 5 and it's a big Esplanade. So I think we'll have to arrange something.
As for music, they're all paeans to nature and all new to me.
Der Freischutz (Carl Maria von Weber) is an opera set around the end of the Thirty Years War. For a modern version of that war, see The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Syria and Iraq are turning into that). For a fantasy version, read The Black Company. Max makes a pact with Samiel, the dark spirit of the woods, evil is vanquished with the key of C Major.s
The Flower Clock (Jean Françaix) is a seven movement oboe concerto each devoted to a flower that blooms at a specific time, although I'm not quite sure how time works in this situation if day jessamine blooms at 3:00, night-blooming crocus blooms at 10:00, geraniums bloom at 19:00 and night flowering catchflies bloom at 21:00.
The orchestral suite (Edward MacDowell) consists of five movements but I only heard three: In A Haunted Forest, Summer Idyll, and Forest Spirits.
Sibelius' 2nd Symphony was written in Italy. Makes me want to read Lucky's Harvest and The Fallen Moon. Somehow.
burning question: don't you hate when you see someone and they turn out to not be the person you're looking for?
