Colour and sensory overload
Thanks so much for all your comments and sympathy on the Ipod, folks! The good news on that front is that the guy who contracts the packers out to the moving company said that if I didn’t find it on arrival he’d reimburse me for it without my having to file a claim. So. I still hope it turns up, but in the event that it doesn’t… and would you believe it, my friends in the city got together and gave us an Ipod as a farewell gift with a lot of music on it, which was awful sweet of them. So please watch this space as I narrate the (mis)adventures of this next-gen machine.
I’m in Colorado, in a small motel in a small town in the southwest, and it has free wireless internet! No coffee or water, but free internet. Delightful! I drove through some of the most gorgeous country today; the southwest is lovely and breathtaking, both when it’s stark and dry and when it’s green forest and snowcapped peaks. Somehow its sheer grandeur resists capture in a camera, and perhaps that’s just as well.
Oh, and speaking of photos not being the real thing, I saw Spudsayshi’s Orenburg Shawl in person this weekend and it is absolutely stunning! It’s gossamer light and a lovely shade of almost lilac. It’s going to be an heirloom when it’s done.