home again
Oct. 10th, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaI am home! Home and well-rested, and, though I would have happily spent many more days at Camp Lipizzan, glad that I ended the trip on the beginning of a weekend rather than the end. Now I have the weekend to decompress, post, unpack and do laundry, clean the fridge, and maybe write some more.
Seattle welcomed me home with some quintessentially Seattle weather: grey skies and green foliage, mist and rain. When we went to see Dar Williams in concert last week (something I didn't have a chance to post about before I left, but that was awesome), she was telling an anecdote about how, in the... 90s, I guess, her group of friends consisted of a lot of New Yorkers clad all in black, but that her one friend from Seattle dressed in the colors of the Pacific Northwest: "lichen and lattes." I like that. Lichen and lattes, that's how I think of Seattle. (Of course, right out the window there's a holly tree, and since it's coming up on that time of year, the holly tree has the beginning of very red berries in clusters. So some color, too.)
And it was wonderful to take a break from lattes and lichen and visit some other, truly spectacular climates. Vail, Colorado was chill and vivid: brilliantly blue sky, hills carpeted in alternating swaths of deep green pine and absurdly brilliant gold-and-yellow aspens, purple-grey snowcapped mountains on the horizon. It was crisp and cold; it snowed one day, though it didn't stick. Vail, Arizona had just as blue a sky, but a lot more of it, from horizon to horizon -- and the mountains that ringed us on all sides were purple at dusk but dappled red-gold in daylight. The land itself: burnished brown-bronze with the dramatic shapes of desert plants, fat spiked cactus and the slim, reaching arms of bushes. The air was cool in shade and warm in direct sun, and absolutely dry -- and dropping to cold at night. Lovely.
(I didn't take pictures, though I'll link you to other peoples' pictures as I go along. You'll just have to make do with word pictures from me, I guess.)
Anyway. So much happened in the last week, and it was so fantastic, and I met so many people, that I'm not sure where to begin (except, apparently, climate). So with the next post I'll begin at the beginning, with Sirens.
Seattle welcomed me home with some quintessentially Seattle weather: grey skies and green foliage, mist and rain. When we went to see Dar Williams in concert last week (something I didn't have a chance to post about before I left, but that was awesome), she was telling an anecdote about how, in the... 90s, I guess, her group of friends consisted of a lot of New Yorkers clad all in black, but that her one friend from Seattle dressed in the colors of the Pacific Northwest: "lichen and lattes." I like that. Lichen and lattes, that's how I think of Seattle. (Of course, right out the window there's a holly tree, and since it's coming up on that time of year, the holly tree has the beginning of very red berries in clusters. So some color, too.)
And it was wonderful to take a break from lattes and lichen and visit some other, truly spectacular climates. Vail, Colorado was chill and vivid: brilliantly blue sky, hills carpeted in alternating swaths of deep green pine and absurdly brilliant gold-and-yellow aspens, purple-grey snowcapped mountains on the horizon. It was crisp and cold; it snowed one day, though it didn't stick. Vail, Arizona had just as blue a sky, but a lot more of it, from horizon to horizon -- and the mountains that ringed us on all sides were purple at dusk but dappled red-gold in daylight. The land itself: burnished brown-bronze with the dramatic shapes of desert plants, fat spiked cactus and the slim, reaching arms of bushes. The air was cool in shade and warm in direct sun, and absolutely dry -- and dropping to cold at night. Lovely.
(I didn't take pictures, though I'll link you to other peoples' pictures as I go along. You'll just have to make do with word pictures from me, I guess.)
Anyway. So much happened in the last week, and it was so fantastic, and I met so many people, that I'm not sure where to begin (except, apparently, climate). So with the next post I'll begin at the beginning, with Sirens.
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Date: 2009-10-10 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-10 11:28 pm (UTC)....aww, Dar. She's awesome.
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Date: 2009-10-10 11:38 pm (UTC)When do you think we'll see more Feather & Glyph?
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Date: 2009-10-10 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-10 11:44 pm (UTC)(Don't feel like a space case. I didn't know she was going to be there until the week before myself. I'm glad she was, though.)
The Dar concert was delightful. She's really wonderful live.
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Date: 2009-10-10 11:46 pm (UTC)If you want to get together for dinner and B5 or BSG sometime this week, I'd be happy to also regale you with tales of Sirens and horse camp.
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Date: 2009-10-11 12:47 am (UTC)