Montag, 10. September 2007
Ho-ho-hum!
This picture sums-up for me that strange, timeless, kind of run down, zoned-out space between Christmas and New Year’s Day. We spotted him while we were on our search for the entrance to the water-lily ponds at Eastlakes. We still haven’t located it.I saw a documentary about the Mexican freetailed bats of Austin Texas and their migratory flights.honoriartist and our other Austin friends, why haven’t you told us about this amazing natural phenomenon? Are you so used to this spectacle that you take it for granted? I guess we get fairly blasé about our giant fruit bats. There were some good shots of Austin as well, so now I have an idea of what your city looks like.I’ve been feeling a bit tired and irritable. I don’t feel like cooking, which is unusual and reading, which I love, is making me doze off after about ten minutes. I suppose it’s a small dose of post-Christmas ennui. Roll on 2004! Surely the world will have a better year than it did in 2003?
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Poor poor Santa. Has it come to this?In sandals too.
The sandals totally make the picture.The bats in Austin are *fabulous*. People there just adore them, and the bridge they nest under is always crowded at sunset with people wanting to watch them emerge. Unfortunately, the one time I've been so far was too late in the year, so instead of a spectacle, all we saw was a giant, moving shadow that seemed to grow and grow, moving up the river in the darkness. And the smell was very interesting: very acrid, even more so than the smell of owls.
And sandals with socks, no less. He looked so forlorn that it induced a kind of hysterical hilarity that cheered me right up.
The city looked pretty too. Does it experience extremes of temperature? What's the climate like in general? The other wildlife I'm aware of includes: armadillos; coyotes; gila-monsters, owls; road-runners and tortoises (which I guess you guys call turtles).
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