Asakiyume mita - the sound of wings; something terrifying

From: cucumberseed Date: November 10th, 2009 03:24 pm (UTC) (Link)

That's going to stay with me...

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From: asakiyume Date: November 10th, 2009 03:33 pm (UTC) (Link)

Tell me about it!

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From: seraphimsigrist Date: November 10th, 2009 03:27 pm (UTC) behind walls of supermarket (Link)

in a literal sense one might
fear a cockroach or two... :)

on the bare branches I think of an old
experimental film 'the guns of the trees'
titled for the idea of a character that the
trees were holding up their hands because
someone was pointing a gun at them.

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From: asakiyume Date: November 10th, 2009 03:32 pm (UTC) Re: behind walls of supermarket (Link)

Yes, and some trees, like apple trees, have arthritic, twisted arms and hands, whereas other trees have long, straight fingers--sugar maples, for instance.

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From: rhfay Date: November 10th, 2009 04:25 pm (UTC) (Link)

There were some strange-sounding birds around here a few weeks ago, migrants perhaps. They called with a metallic chirp. It was a weird sound to hear coming form the high-tension wire right-of-way a few blocks from our home.

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From: asakiyume Date: November 10th, 2009 04:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

What I heard was a burbling, laughing sort of sound (not a goldfinch, though--I know their song).

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From: sovay Date: November 10th, 2009 05:40 pm (UTC) (Link)

I like very much the idea of a feral apple tree.

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From: asakiyume Date: November 10th, 2009 05:47 pm (UTC) (Link)

It's a great term--not original with me, though I'd love to claim it--for these trees that have returned to the wild where once there were orchards.

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From: sovay Date: November 10th, 2009 05:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

these trees that have returned to the wild where once there were orchards.

I want to know what happens when you eat feral apples.

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From: asakiyume Date: November 10th, 2009 06:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

I eat them all the time!

So... well...

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From: asakiyume Date: November 10th, 2009 06:01 pm (UTC) to conclude that thought (Link)

.... so come visit one day, and I'll give you some, and you can discover for yourself.

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From: pdlloyd Date: November 11th, 2009 04:33 am (UTC) (Link)

Today it was all wings, wings beating, fluttering, all around.

I love this line.

I also love the idea of feral apple trees: once tame; now, returning to the wild and not quite safe. Do these make better poisoned apples?

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From: asakiyume Date: November 11th, 2009 04:36 am (UTC) (Link)

They make intoxicating apples--and intoxication is at least some parts poison.

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From: pdlloyd Date: November 11th, 2009 05:49 am (UTC) (Link)

Then they're doing exactly what they're intended to, according to a short history of Johnny Appleseed I read, once. (I don't remember where I read this, but similar information resides here.) His mission of spreading apple trees was not so much to bring eating apples to America, but cider, of the alcoholic variety.

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From: jtglover Date: November 11th, 2009 12:17 pm (UTC) (Link)

Feral trees are wonderful! I commune with some of the mongrel ruffians on the way to and from work.

As to what might be revealed when the ground melts, I don't know, but I suspect Hostess(TM) will have had a hand it.

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From: asakiyume Date: November 11th, 2009 01:01 pm (UTC) Hostess... and Little Debbie (Link)

I suspect you're right :-P

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From: 88greenthumb Date: November 11th, 2009 05:59 pm (UTC) (Link)

"Province of Birds." I want to live there.

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From: asakiyume Date: November 11th, 2009 10:23 pm (UTC) (Link)

It's a traveling province--it may find you :-)

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From: inspirethoughts Date: November 16th, 2009 04:53 pm (UTC) (Link)

There are apples still on the tree?

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From: asakiyume Date: November 16th, 2009 07:04 pm (UTC) (Link)

Some of them seem never to fall--they stay on the tree, getting all shriveled up.

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