Clothesline in the back yard is one way of experiencing Spring here; another is when the Bird Feeder and the pansies appear on our back porch.
I planted onions in my garden beds and removed the cardboard and bricks protecting them from winter. I’m gathering seeds and bulbs and finding some exciting ones. I’ll be happy to share them with you all summer.
We’ll wait a bit before putting water into the feeder; winter has a way of making surprise appearances into May.
Tonight, we went to see Cyrano, starring Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, and Kevin Harrison. This is well-worn turf, and this movie didn’t add a great deal to it unless you love costumes.
We liked it, a solid B. I don’t have a ton to say about it. It was gorgeous in parts and well-acted throughout, but it is a musical, and to make a successful musical movie, the music has to be really good.
It isn’t really very good, and the soundtrack flattened the movie out, even when it was at its colorful and romantic best. And it is a romance, from beginning to end.
This is one of the purest romantic movies I have ever seen, and it was touching. I can’t claim that this ancient and much-loved story excited me.
And I can’t say it is a must-see movie. At least there are no explosions or car chases, and it isn’t loud.
But it is a good one, a perfect one at times. We enjoyed seeing it.
I do recommend it, and I think many kids would like it. There is very little violence. Cyrano de Bergerac is one of the most enduring love stories. It’s difficult to re-imagine it.
The movie had a bit of a neat Disney feel, and since the music was half the movie, I can’t recommend it too highly and don’t have a lot to say about it. That is unusual for me, as you poor readers know.
On a more enthusiastic note, Maria and I are both loving Oscar Nominee Drive My Car, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
This is a terrific movie, wonderfully written and produced, we watched half of it Friday night and will watch the rest tonight. It’s a really brilliant character study, the kind of movie American studio directors almost never make.
I recommend it very highly, it is streaming on Amazon Video.
Your photographs are really beginning to look like Spring, with your little cat soaking up some sun in the last one. Although we are far South in Northern Delaware we get most of our weather from the continental West not from the warmer ocean and we are still threatened with the odd snow and below freezing nights, though our days racket around between 40s and 70s and I daren’t put out any annual flowers and herbs–which are the limit of my active gardening now. My husband prunes roses and other major shrubs and a gardening firm now mows and fertilizes.
However, our grass is now green and our daffodils are in flower. We are well ahead of you with these.
This is a very interactive photo. I feel in meshed in the laundry. i feel like i’m in the photo, not just looking at it. Well done Jon.
The closeline photo: what an interesting perspective. As if you captured the spring winds making an entrance. So moving.