1. By way of completing the rough draft, I've gone ahead and begun revisions to Heart's Chalice. I can't round out the story unless I make some crucial changes first. So I'm working on that, and things are progressing. Broke 98K today.
2. The seventeen-year cicadas are here! I've heard them in the mountains, on my hikes, for several weeks now. For bugs, they're pretty (what big red eyes they have!), and the noise they make reminds me of alien spaceships in those old movies from the 1950's. Here's a picture (hubby's holding the cicada, and I'm snapping the shot):
3. Rhododendron (mountain laurel) is blooming all over now, and it's gorgeous! It reminds me of wedding bouquets, both pink and white.
4. We had fierce thunderstorms last week, and on one of our trails, I found a tree that had been struck by lightning.
5. And here are more hiking pictures, just because the mountains are so pretty, and I want to show them off. *grin*
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Random Bits in the Life of TL
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Thanks for the up-close-and-personal look at cicadas. Love your description of their sound.
Congratulations on breaking 98K and good for you for getting at the revisions. One does as one must.
I really enjoy your hiking pics. I may never see your area for myself so this like a travelogue for me. It's wonderful.
Thanks, Leah! :) I'm glad you enjoy the hiking pictures.
I love documenting in pictures how the mountains change slowly over the course of the year, season by season. :)
Hey TL... cool pic of the cicada. I've heard so much about them and always wondered what they looked like (and am too lazy to Google)
WTG on the 98K!!!!
Thanks so much, Wylie! Yeah, I was tickled with that cicada pic -- I took a couple which were blurry and didn't show his big red eyes to best advantage. But the one I posted, I got just right! :)
Our books are the same length! Yay, us! :-)
Are the 17-year cicadas the only kind you get? We get a green kind every single year and cicada-chatter is the sound of summer until sometime in October. Ugh. It makes the day feel hotter (as if that's possible), and then one day you finally wake up wondering why it's so quiet and you realize the damn things are GONE!
Until next year, of course...
Cool that our books are the same length! :) My word count's going to be kind of up and down wonky for a while as I revise while filling out the story, but when all is said and done, I expect the novel to run about 100,000 words.
We get 17 year cicadas as well as 13 year and 21 year! Ain't that a hoot. We don't get them every year, but we see them (HEAR them) pretty regularly, all told. Ours come out in late May and stick around until late June. And oh yeah, they are LOUD!
So that's what those suckers look like.
My mom called them "Sweat bugs" or "Heat bugs" because they always chirp in the extreme heat.
So when my hubby said "Ah the cicadas are chirping" I thought he was on crack. LOL!
I spent a good portion of my life in a northeast state that should have the cicada as its state bird. Bunnygirl is right. Just the sound of them makes the day hotter. In fact, I think they get more raucous the hotter it gets. I sweat just thinking about them. I am so grateful to now live in a state where I never ever hear cicadas. Of course everything else has been killed off by pesticides too. But at least its quiet. That bug is a cute one.
LOL, Amy! The cicadas are distinctive looking buggies, aren't they? I like their red eyes! :)
And WR, I can't quit laughing at "a state that should have the cicada as its state bird." When I first heard the cicadas on my hikes, I didn't realize what they were and thought there might be a huge bee hive nearby. Either that, or the aliens had landed. ;-D And yes, I think you're right, they do seem to get noisier as it gets hotter!
Only you would take pictures of cicadas, my friend. Let alone get close enough to see their red eyes.
I am quite impressed.
I love that picture of the tree hit by lightening. Freaky.
*giggle*! You know what, Susan, I used to be afraid of bugs, especially large ones. Then hubby got a tarantula as a pet and I made friends with her -- decided she was cute. Though the tarantula went to the Happy Cricket Hunting Ground last year, I haven't been afraid of any kind of crawly critter since! :)
Hi, Julia! :) Yeah, it's way freaky-looking -- the split in the bark goes all the way up the tree, and it's the tallest in that particular area.
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