Midsummer, Litha, Solstice.....

[tabaqui]

Tonight, apparently, is the 'super moon', the perigee moon. Closer to Earth than it will be for a long while, so see if if you can!

The Bebe's cousin/my niece is visiting, she'll probably be here for a week. It's nice. She's a nice kid, a couple years older than the Bebe and about eight inches shorter. Poor thing - driving is a challenge! And she'll be carded until she's fifty.



Now that it's summer and my sleeping schedule is different, i am actually remembering my dreams. Usually my sleep is kind of broken up - to bed by oneish/twoish, up again at fiveish to get the Bebe up for school, then back to bed around eightish and sleep until about elevenish.....

But now i sleep a full six to eight hours without a break, and wow, dreams! :) The most interesting one to date was me dreaming of my very first, best friend, who i met in first grade. In the dream, we were meeting up for some sort of...thing (dinner? reunion? movie? no clue) and i just walked right over and kissed her. Like- full on kiss. Not shocking, really, since she was *also* my first big-time crush. But the first time i've ever dreamed about that. Never did it in real life - she moved away the summer after fifth grade and while we were still friends, and wrote and visited, i wouldn't have ever dared kiss her like that in real life.

It was nice. :)



I also was thinking about the short story that, I think, cemented my liking for hurt/comfort *and* my liking for characters who, whether 'naturally' or via some kind of technology or magic, are a bit unstable. It was a Star Trek story, in the first collection of short stories published.



In 'Star Trek: The New Voyages', there is a story called 'Mind Sifter'. Kirk has an encounter with something called 'The Guardian of Forever', and not only is his mind damaged and twisted, but he's flung back in time to a sixties/seventies Earth, and is being held in a mental hospital. If he tries to say his rank or full name, or anything about the Enterprise, he's 'punished' with pain and terror by some kind of conditioning by the Guardian. So he's called 'Jim', and one of the nurses is a little in love with this sad, handsome stranger.

One night he's standing at the window of his room, and looking up to see the sky and .... "A late plane, at a great height...." And he whispers "Spock? Help me?"

WOW. Yeah. Bam, i will never not love a character like that, in those sort of straits. I'm also pretty sure i know where one of my kinks come from, but i'm not going to talk about that. :)


As always - flowers! My lilies are all in bloom.










I wish i could remember how to make a grid, instead of everything in a long line like that.....

Comments

[arliss]

I've slept a solid seven hours once or twice this week, and for the first time in a long while, remembered dreams on waking. Oh! I remember this.

We have the orange lillies with the purple stamens, and dark dark burgundy freckles in their throats. The others keep promising to bloom; we won't know what color they are till they do. All of ours were donated by a neighbor moving away who couldn't take them with her. She wanted them to have an appreciative home. They do!

[blueswan]

Oh pretty! My day-lilies are just budding now so I'll enjoy yours while I wait. The tiger lilies (the common as mud ones my dad used to call ditch lilies) are closer to blooming so I'm hoping for some of those for Canada Day. Thanks for sharing your pics.

I remember that story! I shall have to drag out my New Voyages and read that one again, now that you've reminded me of it.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Such pretty, pretty flowers! My lilies are budding but there are no blooms yet.

[shakatany.livejournal.com]

OMG I remember "Mind Sifter" from "The New Voyages" and yes it certainly was a h/c fic (thank heavens the collection had a cheerier fic with Ruth Berman's Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited).

Ah the not-so-good-old-days when fanfic was only to be found in fanzines bought via snailmail. What a contrast to these days when one can read a fanfic based on a just-aired ep the very next day online.

Shakatany

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

What a lovely dream!

Argh!

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

That scene from Mindsifter where he sees Spock wearing his shirt..and was like "You gave me up!" Argh, that story was so heavily UST! LOL

[tortilla_lady.livejournal.com]

Neat dream, would you ever tell her about it?

Very pretty lilies. They really are gorgeous. Are they hard to grow? I have a black thumb and can only seem to get a hardy succulent to survive me...

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

The lilies are lovely but I believe they are toxic to cats, so look out for the signs:
http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxicology/a/Lily-Toxicity-In-Cats-And-Dogs.htm

Your dream sounds lovely ... I had a crush on a friend for years and stupidly told her about it.

[ravurian]

Your lilies are lovely! (And I just realised I never commented to the post with pics of your house - I love the different textures of stone!)

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Your lilies are spectacular!

[reddwarf75.livejournal.com]

Beutiful lilies! I saw the moon last night and it was so bright! :)
Marie

[without-me.livejournal.com]

I loved Mind-Sifter with a love that was more than love.

[stir-of-echoes.livejournal.com]

Those Lillies have such beautiful colours, so vibrant and deep. They're gorgeous *is green with envy* I mostly get white or plain yellow, which are lovely enough but yours are stunning.

And I like the sound of your dream, and that in a way, you got your chance to take the chance *G*

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Awww, yay for sleep and a big big yay for dream kisses :-)

Your flowers are beautiful.

Ooh. I really love some characters for having emotional/mental issues (along with other reasons). I mean - Winchesters <3

I love kinks and kink origin stories, so if you do feel like talking about it, you know where to find me :)

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

And you claim you don't have a green thumb! Those are gorgeous.

I recently re-discovered regular sleep and dreams too. The funny thing is that I cannot remember anything about my dreams, just that they were wonderful (which of course, instantly sends everyone's minds to the gutter. lol) I just know they're like kid dreams of flying and adventure and everything nice. It's lovely, even though it means I start the day disappointed because I had to wake up :D

[desertport]

OMG, going straight to the Trek section on my next visit to Powell's....