Speaking of pictures, here's one I took yesterday. This guy came to visit me at three-thirty in the afternoon and stayed long enough to pose for a his bloggy debut. He didn't even fly away when I opened the door for a better shot.
He's a barred owl (aka hoot owl). They're all over the place here. We hear them conversing in the woods all the time, especially during open-window weather, but we rarely see them. I can be particularly nerdy about bird watching, so his visit was a bright spot in my day.
Sunday afternoon, I stole my daughter's nail polish and painted my fingernails a lovely deep, electric purple. Sunday evening, my daughter and I were at the grocery store when the cashier complemented my nail color. I joked that I should put a stripe or two of the same color in my hair. The cashier helpfully informed me that she'd just seen that exact color at Hot Topic last week and I should totally go there. When I came home, I told Magnum about the conversation while stowing my bread and eggs. He asked me if I was having a mid-life crisis.
Here's the thing. I love hair color. I have always loved hair color. If they'd had Manic Panic when I was younger, I'd have had an ever-changing rainbow for a head. Now they have it and I still love it and society has deemed me too old to use it. I feel cheated. I feel like when young girls do it, it's youthful; when old ladies do it; it's spunky; but if I do it, it's mid-life crisis. I also feel I might do it anyway. I'll keep you posted.
If you look at the side bar, you'll notice that today's blog was brought to you by Elbow. I love Elbow. They currently place among my top ten favorite bands, and have for quite some time. No small feat since I change my favorites more than I change my socks. I love them -- their harmonies, their imagery, all excellent. So here's one of my favorites to end the post.
What did you do this weekend?
I thoroughly enjoyed Elbow! Fantastic lyrics. My new favorite band is The Civil Wars-folk/country with spare, lovely harmonies.
ReplyDeleteWe are also bird nerds. We have a lot of hawks, and every so often one will kindly sit in one of our trees for a photo shoot. They're so big up close! We only saw an owl once during the day. I don't know what kind, but he was relatively small. We watched him eat the remains of a mouse, which was gross, but he was beautiful.
We are equally busy here, but I'm trying to go with the flow, baby, and enjoy the season.
Love the owl pic!
ReplyDeleteSpent the weekend shopping, and trying not to panic about how much I still have to get done.
Don't let societal mores stop you. Color baby color...if you want to that is ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the owl.
I hate it that people make judgments about things like hair dye. Why?
ReplyDeleteLove that owl. I'm a bird nerd, too.
I think you should get purple in your hair, maybe i'll get some purple in my hair too.
ReplyDeleteI've never even heard OF Elbow let alone actually hearing them so thanks for sharing. I am going through a Queen phase and I am feeling seriously cheated by life that I missed out on the 80s, seriously not fair.
@Megan, I love hawks. We get a lot of them here, but my camera's not good enough to capture them. I really need better lenses. Last spring, I saw a turkey vulture perched on a post above a pile of beef bones someone had thrown in a field as coyote bait. It had its wings outstretched to absorb the sun at its back and the shadow it cast looked like the shadow of a crucifix stretching over the bones. And I had no camera.
ReplyDelete@Linda, Don't you hate the last minute rush. I'm usually done by now. This year, not so much. Good luck!
@Judie, I'm thinking I might make it a Christmas present to myself. :)
@Judy, I don't know. They do it about my tattoos, too. (Didn't stop me then, either. :) )
@Kris, I've actually been thinking about purple! Because I don't want to have to bleach the hair underneath the color, so deep purple is one of the best colors to go over the brown in my hair. Also, you were definitely cheated missing the 80s. ;)
We called Emma our Rainbow Snow Cone Head for quite some time, in a very loving way of course.
ReplyDeleteI adored it when the girls changed their hair color. Very refreshing and fun. Go for it.
Love that owl!!!
Julie
@Julie, See, the difference here is that your girls are in their early twenties, and I'm...not. Isn't the owl gorgeous?
ReplyDeleteyou're right, people will think what they will think (about purple hair)-- so if you don't care, I say go for it. But you could also do some kind of almost-red-purple highlight that would still look awesome but be right on the edge of a normal hair color. Unless you really want the purple. Why am I giving you advice on this? I get highlights but I've never done odd colors in my life. Anyway. the woman that does my hair had deep red highlights in her dark brown hair when I saw her this week and it looks fab, funky but not too far out there. that's what made me think of this. great owl pic. Sorry for the long comment. :-)
ReplyDeletep.s. if you do get purple hair, you *must* post pictures.
ReplyDelete@BarbN, I really want the purple. Not all over purple, just a nice chunky stripe to frame my face. The dye has been purchased, but I have no idea how it will come out since I'm not bleaching first. We shall see. After Christmas (because that's when things slow down long enough for me to do it).
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