a hot day in june
Jun. 21st, 2012 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeThe coolest part of today was before the sun rose. The birds were singing it up at 4:30, but they were drowsy again by 7:00
Jiji-the-cat knows how to stay cool...
I like hot days. The air has so many different flavors, and you appreciate a current of cool in it as much as a stream or spring of cold water. On this hot day, I picked red currants. (Among the many other things I like are berries and red things. So today was perfect.)
Now I have two bowls full:
There will be red currant jelly sometime in the near future.
Jiji-the-cat knows how to stay cool...
I like hot days. The air has so many different flavors, and you appreciate a current of cool in it as much as a stream or spring of cold water. On this hot day, I picked red currants. (Among the many other things I like are berries and red things. So today was perfect.)
Now I have two bowls full:
There will be red currant jelly sometime in the near future.
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Date: 2012-06-21 06:06 pm (UTC)And I'm just now back from walking to the supermarket to pick up tomatoes and bread to make your panzanella!
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Date: 2012-06-21 06:07 pm (UTC)May yours do the same!
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Date: 2012-06-21 07:46 pm (UTC)(And we did have tons of rain last month)
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Date: 2012-06-22 06:33 am (UTC)I guess the weather generally travels west to east in our latitude, so we're probably now having the heat you had two weeks ago--and in a week or so, England will get it.
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Date: 2012-06-23 12:13 am (UTC)These are now common naturalised plants in southern and southeastern Asia. In local folk beliefs they provide shelter to ghosts and demons. The scent of the Plumeria has been associated with a vampire in Malay folklore, the pontianak; frangipani trees are often planted in cemeteries. They are associated with temples in both Hindu and Buddhist cultures.
I'm guessing this is not news to you :-)
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Date: 2012-06-23 09:05 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangipane
These things about Frangipani (the flower), I did not know. At all. Which is strange, considering.
But my folks had a record I used to get in trouble for listening to, called Irma la Douce. Which was, I suppose, risqué for the 50s. Some sort of sentimental and heavily stereotyped comedy about the Parisian underworld, and a poor student who falls in love with a prostitute, becomes her pimp, but refuses to share her, so he masquerades as a rich client to keep her to himself, so he has to wax floors during the day to pay her to pay him (give logic a miss on that one, I think). I remember how it began. A sleepy little tune on an accordion started up and the narrator began... "This is a story about passion, bloodshed, desire and death. Everything, in fact, that makes life worth living..."
Getting to the point, one of the hardened criminals is introduced at the end of a series of brutal nicknames, representing the "crème de la crème of crime". Polyte, the Bull, Roberto the Rock, Jojo of the dirty eyes, and... Frangipane (the flower). Hilarity.
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Date: 2012-06-23 09:09 am (UTC)I do love the perpetual-motion-machine logic of your Irma la Douce.
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Date: 2012-06-23 09:14 am (UTC)Another thing we do with redcurrant to keep it is run the fruit through a foodmill with some mashed ginger or rhubarb, filter it, add a wallop of honey and can the syrupy mix like any other fruit canning concoction (hot bath, 30 mins).
We use that a squash (disambiguation man sez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(drink) ) for soft drinks with a little seltzer.
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Date: 2012-06-22 05:35 am (UTC)But it is nice for us that you were, so we, too, could enjoy that beautiful birdsong.
Those red currants amidst the foliage make me think of the edible jewels in C.S. Lewis' The Silver Chair. Lovely
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Date: 2012-06-22 06:28 am (UTC)High fives, M, you've made my morning :-)
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Date: 2012-06-23 01:35 pm (UTC)Sounds like there many birds around where you live. That's wonderful! I grew up with many birds around me, and although I loved seeing them, I tended to take them for granted and as part of everyday life. I could match some common ones with their names, such as the crows and hawks, but not the rest...Of course, I was very familiar with the Mynahs, as we had a series of them as pets. :( There are also quite a number of birds around here in this part of the US but I can only identify the crows, hummingbirds, barn swallows ,and the like:) I think reading your and Deepa's posts about birds and meeting that guy at that weekend Nature Knowledge Workshop, has piqued my interest enough to start beefing up my limited knowledge... I admire that guy all the more because he has become legally blind due to glaucoma. He was an ardent and expert birder before that, so he's trying to find a way to continue with his passion and share or transfer those birding skills, including identifying birds by sound, to as many as he can. Admirable! In fact he's organizing a group of people or two in the next months for this. He's charging a minimum amount. I am tempted to go, but I need to conserve my energies and pennies for my upcoming trip.
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Date: 2012-06-23 03:58 pm (UTC)I'm trying to save up pennies for a trip too--in the next year or two. Southeast Asia! No one country is quite the country I've created for my pen pal character K, and I can't afford to go to all the relevant ones, so I'll have to pick carefully.
I can't wait to see your pictures when you travel <3
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