elaby: (Manuscript - girls kissing)
[personal profile] elaby
Well, BEFORE the pea-sized hail and long, window-rattling peals of thunder we've been having - you know, until five seconds ago when the sun came out brilliantly - [livejournal.com profile] caitirin and I went for a walk during our lunch hour. We walked to the main library's courtyard and down behind the Physics building, where last fall's dry leaves were blowing around on the small strip of grass between the cobbled road and the wall. I had my arm hooked through [livejournal.com profile] caitirin's, and I saw a brown and white flecked sparrow fluttering and hopping along the ground. [livejournal.com profile] caitirin pointed at it.

"I picked you a bird," she said, "but I didn't want to put it in a cage, so I let it fly outside for you to see." It was really tiny, smaller than a goldfinch, and it had a little seed-shaped patch of red on the top of its head. "What do you want to name it?" she asked me.

I thought about it. "Coppertop," I said. [livejournal.com profile] caitirin grinned.

"Then it would be Duracell," she said. I realized the truth in this and laughed.

Then I took her hand and we wandered into the Earth Science building and looked at a beautiful, color-swirling map of the different kinds of rocks the land around here is made up of.

Date: 2007-04-30 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caitirin.livejournal.com
n____n

*hearts you*

Date: 2007-04-30 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com
*hearts you back like WHOA!*

Date: 2007-04-30 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caitirin.livejournal.com
You wrote that up so nicely!

Date: 2007-04-30 11:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kniblet.livejournal.com
I call false pretenses on this post. You didn't talk nearly enough about the weather.

Date: 2007-05-01 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com
I'm definitely guilty of misleading post titles!

Date: 2007-05-01 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minyan.livejournal.com
Hey, I call that talk about sunshine. And you managed to catch the ten minutes of it we had, too! Proof, if any were needed, how awesome you guys are.

Date: 2007-05-02 02:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com
Aww, thank you ^_^ I was surprised, too, that we managed to stay out of the rain for that little bit of the day.

Profile

elaby: (Default)
elaby

March 2016

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Mar. 17th, 2026 02:38 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios