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[likethebeer]

I've had nothing much to report. The weather is all the sudden summery w/brilliant greens and blue skies (and soon-to-be anxious farmers if we don't get some good dousings) and I've been coming home and sitting on the back lately. Taking a 20 min. walk at dusk (in which mda & I were greeted by a whole bunch of curious cows on their side of the fence last night). And as it's around the solstice, the sky hasn't been getting really dark until near 10, but I'm outside or walking. Not v. good for the (non-existent) flute practicing.

My reading material on the deck? FLLW: A Biography, by Meryle Secrest. JE-SUS! I just haven't been able to get to the library to look for anything on the fiction/summer reading front. So I'm reading about FLLW. For the 3rd time. At least.

As a result, I now have a pretty good timetable of where he was from April 1925 until about May 1929, and how much time he spent on his house after the second fire. I get to shave a year off of a bunch of photographs! I mean, their possible beginning dates were 1928; since FLLW wasn't home in 1928 (nor, really, 1927, and only about 3 mos of 1926), the earliest date for the photos are 1929. It's all fascinating stuff, I know.

Ok, shower.

Comments

[anterastilis.livejournal.com]

hey, I keep forgetting to ask you a weird question...

and you are under NO OBLIGATION to investigate this any further than just thinking about it for a minute.

Did FLLW ever design a window (or any other design) with a turtle in it?

I was thinking about painting a turtle on a piece of furniture. I was thinking about a design style, and I thought "I'd like a turtle that FLLW would have designed." So, I thought I'd check.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Regrettably, I don't think he did. Anything w/nature in it tended to be abstractions of trees or flowers.

[anterastilis.livejournal.com]

Shoot. Worth a shot. Thanks anyway! :)

Ok, shower.

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

that could be interesting,..:)

it's fun playing detective, and you seem to be good at it,..:)

Re: Ok, shower.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I like the detective work. I'm glad I've only got one field to work in. I've been doing more detective work which I may write about soon.

[em-porium.livejournal.com]

Sounds like nice weather up where you are! We had one scorching week followed by a really cold one. Now it looks like rain. Our farmers aren't very happy either.

If you're looking for book suggestions, I'm currently reading The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. It's pretty well-written and in the style of her most famous book, Girl with a Pearl Earring. The difference between the two books is that each chapter of The Lady and the Unicorn is told from a different character's point of view. I think that it makes for a very interesting storyline if you like historical fiction. :)

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Looks pretty fun (although--gasp!--I had a tough time w/"Girl w/a Pearl"--I liked the atmosphere created, but I wasn't crazy about the main character).

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

oooo. good call. didn't know she'd written anything else-thanks for that tip.

like k., I loved the atmospherics of girl/pearl, but I liked the character of Griet, too.

[em-porium.livejournal.com]

I've read another book of hers too called The Virgin Blue. That was actually the first book of hers that I read.

It's a little different from her others because she frames her historical narrative with a "real-time" saga. The present-day story is believable or unbelievable depending on your view of history reaching through the ages. I really liked it and couldn't put it down. In fact when I read Girl with a Pearl Earring, I was a little disappointed that she didn't use the same format.

[em-porium.livejournal.com]

Ooops...screwed up on the html code there somewhere. Sorry about that!

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

'sokay. I understood it. I've got tabs open to those three other books I've not read and am going to put them on my library reserve list. thanks again for the tip.

Reading

[(Anonymous)]

If you want something to read, I can get a free book to you. The catch? You would have to review it. Evil, I know.

CAW

Re: Reading

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

I'll take a free book, and I'll review it!

Re: Reading

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a scary thought. I'm not a reviewer, either.

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

That's great about the pictures. Nice when someone else has done some of the work for you even if you have to read to find it ;)

So, how's the work on his centennial coming?

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten to work on the pictures yet. That might be one of those things on teh back-burner for a year or two (hopefully not, but it's possible).

We've not had any discussions about that lately. I had my ideas, and nothing else has come up. We've got 6 years, or maybe 1, depending on how serious we want to get.