Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Drops, covering and island life.

1. A few specks of rain after weeks of dry weather.

2. Trees get more leafy almost as I watch.

3. Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. I like it because characters, themes and places that appear in the Moomin books are repeated. It allows me the reader to look at them through a different coloured window; and it gives me the writer a chance to examine the mechanics of an authoress I admire.

Dull, after the rain and prepping.

1. I slap the full water butt to enjoy the dull thump. 2. My herbs have doubled in size in the rain, which seems to have nourished them in a...