asakiyume: (snow bunting)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2015-03-29 01:06 am

a quest

Last week was the tall one's birthday. Between pizza and cake, I sent him and his girlfriend on a quest. Find me a feather, I said. They searched the woods, but reported there were no feathers to be found. They brought me these beauties instead:



But then the other day I was walking, after the rain had thinned the snow somewhat, and behold, feathers everywhere. They were hiding just below the surface of the snow, maybe, waiting to be revealed? Or was there a scuffle after the rain fell?






[identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
I love quests. ❦

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. I like going on them, and it turns out I also like assigning them :-P

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
I like the not-feathers, though! :)

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I did too--such beautiful treasures!

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, look at those colors and patterns!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't they nice?

[identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Now I will see bracket fungus as a form of tree-feather.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Turns out those bracket fungi have all been attempting to give trees wings.

[identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.paghat.com/bracketfungus.html

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
The turkey tail fungus in the first photo really do look like handy shelves for a very diminutive person. Very tiny books or dinner plates could go on them.

[identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the treasure they collected for you! :)

Those feathers might have been waiting all winter for you to find them.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
That's what it felt like! There were so many of them, too...

[identity profile] syomsong.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
lovely picture, lovely things you have found! SPRING!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, showing itself very shyly :-)

[identity profile] alotus-poetry.livejournal.com 2015-03-29 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
There's always something so magical about finding feathers! :) Love the photos!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I agree--I love finding feathers.

[identity profile] yamamanama.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Any idea what bird that stripey feather belonged to?

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Not really--maybe a pileated woodpecker, since they live in the woods and have black and white?

[identity profile] yamamanama.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
It's a cool-looking feather, whatever it is.

Last night, a woman asked me if she could read to me while I drew her portrait.
Edited 2015-03-30 01:15 (UTC)

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like an awesome trade! What did she read?

[identity profile] yamamanama.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
The Last Jew Of Treblinka.

I made an update about it and other things.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like an awesome trade! What did she read?

[identity profile] readthisandweep.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
So purty!

I love feathers...

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2015-03-31 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too!