the spring of things
Mar. 19th, 2026 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkinslocalToday there was a BRIGHT red cardinal outside my window for the first time this spring and also a very friendly robin who hopped along next to me and kept me company on my walk. Delightful. When birdwatching season starts again I always think of my maternal grandma, who kept a birding guide on the table next to her arm chair but hardly ever needed it to identify the birds that came to the feeders right outside her huge picture window, which she loved talking about to anyone who came to visit her. I didn't care or appreciate it much at the time but since she passed away last year I am grateful for the connection and reminder of her in my attempts to be a keener observer of the natural world.
The spring weather and sun have also brought a new creative energy that I am trying to appreciate for as long as it lasts: writing here is becoming a good daily practice for me, I think, and while I've got the laptop open I might as well type some lines in my fic document. I've also been thinking about getting back into creative nonfiction: I started writing a little bit about The House on the Rock, a longtime fascination for me, and am having fun playing with the structure and trying to figure out ways to echo the strange, uncanny ways that the structure of that place unfolds and reveals and conceals itself.
Do you have any recs (fiction or non) about houses/architecture/odd buildings or attractions??
The spring weather and sun have also brought a new creative energy that I am trying to appreciate for as long as it lasts: writing here is becoming a good daily practice for me, I think, and while I've got the laptop open I might as well type some lines in my fic document. I've also been thinking about getting back into creative nonfiction: I started writing a little bit about The House on the Rock, a longtime fascination for me, and am having fun playing with the structure and trying to figure out ways to echo the strange, uncanny ways that the structure of that place unfolds and reveals and conceals itself.
Do you have any recs (fiction or non) about houses/architecture/odd buildings or attractions??
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