Sep. 30th, 2003

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Another good day, a long and busy day, a tiring day....

This afternoon at work I made two large colages on bristolboard for a dislpay the theatre's Volunteer Committee is doing. For one, I put on a large black and white photo of our production of "The Fantasticks" from July this year, with various programmes, a small colour photo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (October, 2000) and a few poster-type ads. I labelled that "Recent plays at the OLT".

The other one I called "The 1940s". I lucked into finding two beautiful watercoour drawings of the sets for two plays from c. 1947 and photos and programmes for the same shows - one for "The Cherry Orchard" and one for something called "Orders is Orders". Funny thing about "Orders is Orders". The water colour of the set showed a lovely drawing room with pink wallpaper and Queen Anne chairs. The photograph of the actors on stage showed a set that looked like a frontier fort - nothing much but a wall of upright sharpened stakes.

I figure it must have been Act II.

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I just succeeded in downloading the trailor of "The Return of the King". Oh so beautiful. And not just visually.... beautiful words, beautiful concepts, such a reality.

This evening I was reading "The Fellowship of the Ring" to Beulah and we were on the chapter "Lothlorien". I had forgotten that Gollum appears in that chapter - in Lothlorien itself - and that Haldir is puzzled by him, but notices his resemblance to a Hobbit. I always think that the entry of the Orcs into Lothlorien is one of the scariest bits of the whole story.

The really scariest bit, though, is the encounter between Aragorn and Sauron via the palantir. I look forward to that. And my other favourite detail - Aragorn getting Anduril.

That chapter reads like poetry. The further I read the more Tolkien is into his verbal stride. Beulah said to me, "He really liked words, didn't he?" Yes. I had to look up "whin" - it means "gorse" - and while I was at it, I looked up "whortleberry", which turns out to be the same as bilberry.

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October is my favourite month. The weather is usually lovely - I like windy, cool, changeable days, and I don't like heat. We usually get snow in October, but not much of it. We get that beautiful clear golden sunlight and trees with red leaves. I hope I get to visit the Gatineau Hills sometime soon.

There's another reason to love October this year - I just turned the page on my 2003 Smallville calender and there is an utterly gorgeous picture of Lex. A close-up of his face. I think I'll keep this picture when we get to the Lana month (December, if I remember correctly.)

And less than 24 hours to go now till the new episode of Smallville.

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