Greetings from Philadelphia!
Oct. 22nd, 2023 09:21 amGreetings from Philadelphia! This is the final major stop of the trip, for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skygiants and genarti's wedding. Then back to Indiana, although not quite back to real life as I am tacking on the brief stops in Indianapolis and Bloomington that I had to cancel earlier because I was sick.
On my final day visitingasakiyume it rained, although politely not until we had returned from our long forest walk, during which we discovered (a) beautiful horses (there is a sign along the road near asakiyume's house that says "horse lessons," and I believe these are the horses), (b) delicious mushrooms, and (c) a tasty fruit that grows on a specific variety of ornamental dogwood tree. So despite the lateness of the season we got to forage a bit after all!
And then we returned toasakiyume's house and baked our croissants! We began work on this recipe on the first morning of my visit, and finished it up on my last, as the croissant dough needs to rise and rise and rise again; and they were very creditable for a first attempt! Delicious, soft, buttery, perhaps not as flaky as a croissant made by a true professional, but after all one does not wish to achieve perfection on the first go. There are mountains still to climb!
Then the rains came, and we had a nice quiet afternoon, reading, writing, recovering from our perhaps over-indulgence in croissants (but WHEN will we have another chance to eat fresh-baked croissants hot out of the oven?), and in my case gathering strength for a weekend of wedding festivities.
Said festivities began yesterday with a cupcake-decorating party! I have met many people that I hitherto knew only online, sometimes through Zoom theater and sometimes only as a username, and many more people that I had not even known in that capacity! Also Freya Marske, who introduced herself simply as Freya, and murmured that she wrote fanfic... Hannibal, Captive Prince, nothing recently though... and it was only half an hour later when she mentioned she was here for a book release that the dominoes fell and I yelled "You're Freya Marske!"
Also I've met a lot of people who have read my books! People who read my books long before they met me, I should say. Which has been nice! Although I'm still working out what one says in response to this, as presumably "oh God I hope you liked it" is not the Author Vibe I wish to project.
This morning, I have visions of the Rodin Museum: it's a lovely sunny day, perfect weather to stroll around the sculpture garden. Then wedding! Then dancing?! Wish me luck!
skygiants and genarti's wedding. Then back to Indiana, although not quite back to real life as I am tacking on the brief stops in Indianapolis and Bloomington that I had to cancel earlier because I was sick.On my final day visiting
asakiyume it rained, although politely not until we had returned from our long forest walk, during which we discovered (a) beautiful horses (there is a sign along the road near asakiyume's house that says "horse lessons," and I believe these are the horses), (b) delicious mushrooms, and (c) a tasty fruit that grows on a specific variety of ornamental dogwood tree. So despite the lateness of the season we got to forage a bit after all! And then we returned to
asakiyume's house and baked our croissants! We began work on this recipe on the first morning of my visit, and finished it up on my last, as the croissant dough needs to rise and rise and rise again; and they were very creditable for a first attempt! Delicious, soft, buttery, perhaps not as flaky as a croissant made by a true professional, but after all one does not wish to achieve perfection on the first go. There are mountains still to climb! Then the rains came, and we had a nice quiet afternoon, reading, writing, recovering from our perhaps over-indulgence in croissants (but WHEN will we have another chance to eat fresh-baked croissants hot out of the oven?), and in my case gathering strength for a weekend of wedding festivities.
Said festivities began yesterday with a cupcake-decorating party! I have met many people that I hitherto knew only online, sometimes through Zoom theater and sometimes only as a username, and many more people that I had not even known in that capacity! Also Freya Marske, who introduced herself simply as Freya, and murmured that she wrote fanfic... Hannibal, Captive Prince, nothing recently though... and it was only half an hour later when she mentioned she was here for a book release that the dominoes fell and I yelled "You're Freya Marske!"
Also I've met a lot of people who have read my books! People who read my books long before they met me, I should say. Which has been nice! Although I'm still working out what one says in response to this, as presumably "oh God I hope you liked it" is not the Author Vibe I wish to project.
This morning, I have visions of the Rodin Museum: it's a lovely sunny day, perfect weather to stroll around the sculpture garden. Then wedding! Then dancing?! Wish me luck!
