Mundanity

Mangled, squashed bodies, blood and guts spilled and yet no-one gives it a second thought.  Even children see them on a fairly regular basis but it doesn't count.  Because they're only animals.  Yes, I'm talking road-kill.  I counted 4 on my way here - a short 20 minute journey.  A duck, a possum, a hedgehog and something so squished I couldn't identify the species.  Could have been a cat.  I must be the only person who cringes and feels sad for the sudden deaths of the innocent - by men driving too fast or veering purposely towards them.

I hate people.

So I remembered my camera.  Cloudy nearer home so I didn't take any picturesque shots of lambs in the sun, but did take a couple as the swan family came swimming around the corner towards the bridge.  I took a couple of shots and adult swan stopped under the bridge and called at me, while the young ones (swanlings?) made little whistling noises.  Very sweet.

I was driving back home late last night on an empty country road in the near full moon with good music playing on the car stereo.  It was pretty close to heaven - wonderful feeling.

This morning was pretty foggy - amorphous shapes looming out of the mist - like vague representations of what they were, ghostlike in a white blanket.  Pretty damned cool.

Glad to spot the swan family on my way back from work today.  The cygnets virtually alone, feeding on the bank and a parent some way off not bothering to guard anymore.  Was great to see.  They're growing up fast.

I haven't seen them for three days and just today I saw only one.  Where is the other and the cygnets?  I hope they're ok wherever they may be.

Daylight saving means I can still view the beauty in the mornings with the sun shining on little areas.  I wonder if anyone else ever notices the small things - the almost irridescent green of a tree in leaf, a halo of sunlight around a lamb, the patterns of the clouds, little details in the daily miracle of life?

And I was stuck inside working on the side of the building where the sun never shines - depressing.

Driving home saw a duck on the side of the road 'standing guard' over her little ducklings in the gutter.  They were so cute and having a great time having a mudbath there.  I hope no nasty drivers veered towards them to run them over.  There are a lot of fucked up people who would do that.  I wish there really were karma - that such people would be crushed to death.

Mood: Definitely moody
Listening to: computer hums

Shades of grey and green this morning, the sky a wet blanket.

In a grump.  Not a good start to the week.

Two ducks, like statues, on the road.  I fear for their safety.

Wet, gloomy, miserable.  It's winter and yet it's spring.  I hate it.  My house is damp and cold.  Depresses me.

I hope we get a summer.

So a huge house, that for several years now has dominated a cliff overlooking the city, is now teetering on the edge.  The pride before a fall, literally.  The heavy rain took out a corner of their land so that now the foundations are showing.  I have no compassion.  Build a large ostentatious house with huge windows on the edge of a cliff, thinking themselves immune to the forces of nature, showing off their wealth - prepare to face the consequences.  Good old mother nature takes it away in a shower of rain. 

My daily delight continues in seeing the swan family.  The cygnets are growing into graceful beings, swimming along behind the parents.  Beautiful.

Listening to: Endorphin

Listening to: Capercaillie

Some celtic music reaches so deeply into my soul it has me in tears.  Why is that?  No other music ever seems to reach so deep.  It's so heartwrenchingly beautiful.

Mood: mellow
Listening to: Summer Madness - Kool and the Gang

Mood: peeved

People are judgemental fuckwits, and do not deserve to be on top of the food chain.