rssRight and left, before and behind, the fen lay shrouded. The snow that had fallen all day gave back a glimmering greyness to a sky like lead. - D.L. Sayers
Everyday life
2005, July 06
Dorothy Sayers
As my Wimsey takes me.
Here are all the books Dorothy Sayers wrote with the characters Lord Peter and Harriet Vane. Harriet does not appear in two of them, but she is referred to marginally. These are great books to read and re-read; she is certainly a favorite of mine.
Strong Poison 1930
Have His Carcase 1932
The Nine Tailors 1934
Gaudy Night 1935
Busman’s Honeymoon 1937
Striding Folly 1973
Thrones, Dominations (co-author Jill Paton Walsh) 1998
A Presumption of Death (co-author Jill Paton Walsh) 2004
WebSites:
Dorothy Sayers Society
Dorothy Sayers
2005, May 28
Vacation
A short trip to San Luis Obispo County to visit my daughter's family.
This month I took a short trip through the Salinas valley which lies between the Bay area and San Luis Obispo. The valley is planted mostly with lettuce and grapevines.
While I was there we visited the Las Pilitas Nursery near Santa Margarita. I found a Navaho Blue Oak and two sticky monkey flowers, the Diplacus (Mimulus) rutilus and the Diplacus (Mimulus) puniceus.
This is my baby Navaho Blue Oak.
I spent some time with my granddaughter and am so impressed with how her parents are managing.
We went for a short walk to the nearby beach, where there were Cliff Swallows nesting. You can just see the heads of the chicks in the nest opening.
The Morro Bay area is famous for peaks and rock formations.
On the beach there are evidences of the motion of the coastal hills.
The coastal scrub is at its peak of May color.
2005, May 26
Summer Weather Pattern
For the San Francisco Bay area.
You know when it’s summer in the Bay Area, it’s chilly, foggy and windy. This morning that is exactly what we have. And it is summer, according to the old calendar Shakespeare used. Midsummer Night was June 21. The beginning of the season was halfway between the equinox and the solstice, so summer started about May 5.
I doubt the people in Massachusetts would agree.
2005, April 16
Rules for Living
Can I follow all these rules?
Like Abe Lincoln, I can follow all the rules some of the time, some of the rules all the time, but never all the rules all the time. Sometimes only one a day.
Do not fight
Do not be greedy
Do not seek
Do not be selfish
Do not pursue personal advantage
Do not lie
