who tried to bring this in here?

[asakiyume]

Some people have the gift of telling dreams so that, instead of a confusing mish-mash of incomprehensible (often even to them) signifiers, you instead get a well-turned, strange tale. sovay, for instance, can do this.

And so can Little Springtime--at least, she just did:

I dreamed we drove to Russia, and there were bears everywhere. We got to a train station, and there were bears there, too, and I said, "I'm sure glad we didn't bike." And then the customs people stopped us and one of them held up a potato and said, "Who tried to bring this in here?" And I said, "Are potatoes not indigenous to Russia?" And there were these magnificent fur coats, and I wanted to buy one, but I wasn't sure of the price conversion from rubles to dollars--like is a ruble half a dollar? Or twice a dollar? And so I tried to Google the conversion rate, but the results I got were totally unhelpful--like how many dollars to the pound, and how many pounds in a stone.

Don't try to smuggle potatoes into Russia
(image source)

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Fascinating dream.

I love that image of the soldiers riding bears!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Me too! It's amazing what you can find images of, if you google. Though really what I'd have liked to do, if I had all the time in the world, was draw the bears prowling about the train station.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Yes, I imagine they were prowling, but for some reason, I pictured them upright, carrying parcels and running to catch connections, some wearing little clochette hats with flowers and others collars with bow ties sans shirts. :P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's ADORABLE. If you weren't busy with the picture book, I'd humbly request that picture from you . . .