Damper

[rejectomorph]

The pleasant mist which filled the night and collected on the pines to drip with soft thuds to the needle-strewn ground has now become a drizzle. I miss the mist.

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Hello

[jaarronn.livejournal.com]

Can't guess at how or why, but just noticed I have been added to your friend's list...After having read some of your journal entries and finding your sensitivities very much to my liking -(I'll be certain to revisit often and catch up on all!)- I am delighted to make your aquaintance and am gladly reciprocating! Thank you.

Re: Hello

[rejectomorph]

I actually came across your journal quite some time ago, but my computer crashed before I could add you to my friends list, and then I was unable to find you again until the other night. I very much enjoy your photographs. And I'm sure I've seen your user icon somewhere before, but I can't quite place it. Is it from a book?

Re: Hello

[jaarronn.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm very pleased our paths have crossed here in LJ land. Although photography is certainly one of my main interests and I try to express myself through it, reading is without doubt my very favorite past time and I have always longed to be able to write well - I have struggled so hard for so long, with so few satisfying results that I have finally had to accept that I am not very good at it. However, I do think I recognize good writing when I read it - and I certainly like the way you write...especially your sense of humor. I note that you also list KenHighCountry among your LJ friends - He is another person whose writings I enjoy immensely.

RE: my user icon - you are right! And, surprisingly, you're the first person who has commented on it. It was taken and adapted slightly from, "The Wind In The Willows" - written by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by one of the all-time greats, Arthur Rackham - first published in the US in 1908. I am very fortunate to own an exact reproduction printed in 1944.
The icon I use here is a very much reduced copy of one a dozen different ones that I hand reproduced about 10 years ago - for the purpose of making T-shirts to raise money for my local library's "Friends of Maplewood Memorial Library" group. The shirts came out quite well and made a bit of $ for the Friends....So, there you have it.

Thanks!

Re: Hello

[rejectomorph]

I think that those illustrations might have been included in a paperback copy of the book which I have. I can't check, because the book is stuck in a box in my garage. But I might also have seen the bird in a hardbound copy at the Alhambra public library when I was a child. It has been a long time, so I don't remember if that was one of the books I checked out there. The only books I remember checking out are the Doctor Dolittle series, and Edith Hamilton's book of Greek myths.