Imaginary landscapes from reality

Online representations of the paintings found in this entry of First Known When Lost change the colours, so I shall link to it directly.

The garden picture looks like archetypal March in Toronto, as might be expected of an English landscape, except that the present February is looking exactly the same. Beslyn's Pond looks like Tokyo, and also like archetypal November here. Stephen Pentz is on a roll with his pictures: thanks to him I've discovered James McIntosh Patrick and Karl Hagedorn.

Nice things

Christmas in February. incandescens sends me Sherlock DVDs. I have no TV-- well, I have one, or actually two, but neither are digital and neither shows shows any more. I hear there are ways to DL from the net, but such arcane technology is beyond this Gramma. So I was resigned that current shows would pass me by. But one will not! Thank you, incandescens.

Meanwhile xsmoonshine sends me a tiger's heart wrapped in a dragon's hide. Which is: a plushy keychain with a white and black striped tiger wearing a red dragon outfit. The dragon head becomes a hoodie kind of affair, the body is a coat. Ah, pictures! Mine is the smaller version, without teeth. As well: the dragon looks sufficiently kerblonxed as it is, to find himself a piece of apparel. 'Why do I have this tiger in my mouth?' Poor Goushou.

Googling for the above, I find something like the plush dragons rasetsunyo sent me, sans treasure bag and box. So now you know.

Also belated happy birthday to kickinpants and congratulations to paleaswater on Thuglet #2.

And one of the mums at work said her two year old was talking about me: 'Jan? With the red top? Who lived in Tokyo?' How she picked that up I cannot say, but still.