Exhalations

[asakiyume]

Because of Pen Pal, I pay attention to volcanic eruptions. Yesterday Mt. Sinabung, one of Indonesia's 130 active volcanoes, erupted. The Guardian has a photo essay here. Two photos from that set below:

Mt. Sinabung (Photo by Ade Sinuhaji)


Ash coats a motorbike (Photo by Binsar Bakkara)


Meanwhile, where I live, the land has fever-and-ague, going from deep, deep freeze to bursts of heat, during which it sweats and pants--not steam, though; just water vapor.

During this brief melt, the secret roads of voles and mice are revealed. Their motto is a straight line is an abomination

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

So beautiful, and yet so deadly.

Hope you're staying warm.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Today is mild here--not like the Martian temperatures in the center of the country! Tomorrow we get that cold back again.

And yes, beautiful and deadly...

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I finished Pen Pal last night, unfortunately while vomiting and dealing with diarrhea and cramps (mine). Despite all that, reading it was a wonderful experience, and I look forward to doing what I can to promote it. Starting later today.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My dear friend, please, please pay attention to your health first and save book promotion for when you're well! Stay warm. I hope the worst of it passes soon.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I would love to see a volcanic eruption, but I would not want to be caught in the ash fall-out!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I guess there are places, like at Kilauea (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/), which are pretty much perpetually erupting, low-grade. You could go there and see the lava dropping into the sea!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I love that motorbike shot but then anything to do with volcanoes fascinates me. I might have been a vulcanogist in a different life!

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

Yes, a little more of the median would be nice, weather-wise.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, those mice roads are so cool!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

There's something forlorn (and spooky) about that motorbike. I love the picture of the vole-track.

[sovay]

Mt. Sinabung (Photo by Ade Sinuhaji)

That is beautiful.

Ash coats a motorbike (Photo by Binsar Bakkara)

And that is also beautiful, in the way of awful things.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

"in the way of awful things" is th perfect phrase.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I saw some mouse trails today, too!

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

The Lady loves an uprising. ;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Volcanoes truly are fascinating.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I guess out sense of "median" is going to have to change, as time goes on….

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love their twistiness--veering a little this way, only to double back again.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes--the sepia-fying of the world that an application of ash will do for you. . . And I like the vole trails too--there were more of them, sub-snow calligraphy.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's like the volcano understands perfectly one of the principles of modern-day art: create a thing that is like a thing, but no longer that thing. "Look, I have made you a motorbike--oh, but not a functional motorbike, no no--that would not be art. But this! This is!"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And you caught the mist clouds, too, rising off the snow! Gorgeous billows.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh she does. She does.

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Yes! I tried posting that from work, but it didn't want to upload. Had to wait till I got home. That was so cool!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm managing to do neither!

I realized at 9:00 a.m. that Chun Woo's cub scout den expotition to the water treatment plant had not been deferred to Wednesday, but was at 10:00. I already knew he had soccer camp at 4:25.

[sovay]

"Look, I have made you a motorbike--oh, but not a functional motorbike, no no--that would not be art. But this! This is!"

This is a wonderful image and unfortunately it seems to have generated fiction about a volcano that is actually kind of a creeper.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You know, I was hoping, and somehow, weirdly, almost expecting that you might write something! It's not that I was setting out bait, more that as I wrote, I could see that what I was fumbling toward recognizing was what you were already intuiting, and that that was going to spark you to something.

I *love* what it sparked in you.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I don't and I do want to see a volcano erupt. I don't and I do. More on the do side of things today, because of the cold, but that will pass.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I do, and will probably only get to the don't side of the see-saw when I'm actually in proximity to one and have no (more) choice in the matter.**

Did you see sovay's amazing lovelorn volcano story?

**Well okay: maybe I could settle for seeing a lava lake without actually needing to see the spewing ash and breathing the poisonous, superheated gases.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I SAW IT!

Yes, lack of poisonous, superheated gasses is *key*