Not Describing What is There

All night the soft rain falls, and the full moon, itself unseen, casts its light atop the thick fields of clouds, so that its diffuse glow joins the rain in washing the forest. Dark groves wall each pale house from its neighbor and pierce the gray sheen of sky with pointed crowns. Branches drip gathered rain and fill the night with a sound like that of crinkling paper. I turn pages of old books in my mind, scan the words in search of some meaning. My thoughts run like ink on a wet page. My hands are stained with lost messages, and the rain will not wash them clean. Uncontained, each moment vanishes as itself, like a raindrop soaking into soil. I fail to wrap the night in words, and its shape is scattered by approaching dawn.

Brighter Day

We finally had a day with both clouds and sunshine, and I got up early enough to go out and use up some film. The fields are spledidly green, and more flowers are blooming. I even heard some larks. Of course, given the fine weather, (and longer evening twilight), I spent little time with Sluggo, and will have to catch up with everybody's posts later. (Thursday, there are always more posts than any other day, for some reason.) The sky is now clearing a bit, and I'll probably get to see the still almost full moon tonight, as well.

Most Recently Updated Journals

I must have missed the announcement of this LJ feature, which displays a (long) list of the most recently updated journals, with links to the posts. Interesting. I know that Blogger has long had something of that sort on its main page. I don't mind having it hidden away, but maybe it could be a little less hidden? I wonder how long it's been around?

And now, back to my regularly scheduled not posting this time of night.

Heh. LJ spellcheck's suggestions for correcting the word "Blogger:"

Logger, Flogger, Blocker, Bigger, Boggier, Bulgier, Bloke, Bagger, Blockier, Bugger, Logier, Lugger, Blower, Bilge, Blighter, Bloomer, Bloater, Blooper, Blotter, Blowier, Bragger, Slugger

"Bugger" is my favorite!