Lagoonfire proof, cosmos and bees

[asakiyume]

The mail brought a welcome item--my uncorrected proof for LAGOONFIRE!



I must go through it carefully and root out typos! The Polity approves of rooting out errors.

Last book featured a deity who wasn't ready to be retired. This one features a bunch of retired gods. How do they spend their time? How does the Polity treat them? You can learn a lot about a government by how it treats its decommissioned deities.

I've been spending too much time just working, but when I'm not, I step outside to enjoy the cosmos ... by which I mean the flower called cosmos, but hey, it's part of the bigger cosmos, so both things, actually.



Seems like each blossom held its own bee:


By the time I got those photos, late-ish today, the bees all seemed to be sleeping, but this morning they were active, flying blossom to blossom, but always politely socially distancing when they saw a blossom was already occupied.

It's past 5 pm, local time. Have an autumn brew.

Comments

[sartorias]

What beautiful photos!

And the cover for Lagoonfire is gorgeous!

[asakiyume]

Thank you and thank you!

[pameladean]

Your photos were a balm to my heart. Outside, the last two or so inches of a record October snowfall are falling, very beautifully, but weighting down the still fully-leafed, partly-green branches of the Norway maples. There's already a branch the size of a decent sapling lying in the front yard from recent high winds. I only hope it may not be joined by any more before this all melts or gets rained away later in the week.

P.

[asakiyume]

Oh no! You have my heartfelt sympathy and empathy. There was a year we had an October blizzard; it brought down many trees--hopefully you don't get that amount of snow :( :(

[osprey_archer]

How DO the retired deities spend their time? This is now a burning question! (Obvs you should not answer it here, I should wait for the book, but nonetheless! Burning.)

I love those cosmos flowers.

[asakiyume]

YES the question will be answered ^_^

I adore cosmos. I never saw it/knew of it until the film The Color Purple came out. It had huge meadows of cosmos in it, and I said, "WHAT is that flower!? I MUST GROW that flower!" And I have, ever since.

[sovay]

The mail brought a welcome item--my uncorrected proof for LAGOONFIRE!

Cool!

You have a very beautiful cosmos. I like your autumn brew.

[asakiyume]

Drinking autumn brew out in the cosmos--peak ... peak something! October, maybe?

I am excited to hold the proof of the book. Next stop, god(s) willing--actual book-book.

[sovay]

Drinking autumn brew out in the cosmos--peak ... peak something! October, maybe?

Definitely peak October. Also Greer Gilman's Cloud.

[ellenmillion]

Loving these photos - autumn brew in particular!

[asakiyume]

I was trying to think what vessels it would be good to drink the brew in. Maybe mushroom flutes--chanterelle shaped. Or if it's very potent, then maybe an acorn capful is enough.

[gwynnega]

Beautiful photos! Yay proofs!

[asakiyume]

Thank you! it's a cheery set of things.

[queenoftheskies]

Your cover is soooo beautiful.

I can't wait until the novella can be purchased. I am dying to read it.

You have so many beautiful things in your life.

[asakiyume]

Thank you so much! I can't wait until it can be, either. I hope people like it!

I do feel lucky for the beauty in my life....

[anna_wing]

Congratulations! The photos are lovely!

Daisy-family flowers seem to be very good for bees generally. I was in the Vienna Botanic Garden in mid-November once (it's very nice, a small, traditional garden attached to the University, so very plainly and practically laid out like a scientifically-minded allotment), but it had a spectacular bush of some sort of aster, in a lovely shade of fluorescent violet, still in full flower, and absolutely covered with bees.

[asakiyume]

I wonder if the asters you saw were New England asters--they can come in a very rich purple and a very hot pink!

[anna_wing]

Each flowerhead was very small, but there were a lot of them. I will try to find the photo...

[mallorys_camera]

Congratulations on the manuscript!

Did you grow yr cosmos from seed or from seedlings? I had a bunch of cosmos in my garden back in June, purple and white. They are so beautiful.

[asakiyume]

I grew them from seed! (Other years I've used seedlings, though)

And thank you for the congrats ^_^

[cmcmck]

Pretties!

[asakiyume]

I love them!

[okrablossom]

Ooh, what wonderful autumn brew! :)

[asakiyume]

toasting your good health!

[rachelmanija]

Gorgeous cover! And I LOVE the autumn leaves photo.

[asakiyume]

Thank you! The artist is Susan Lavoie :-)

And yeah, I love it when the natural world gives us something as beautiful as a pitcher full of bright leaves. I love that pitcher, too--I liberated it from a decaying building, long ago.