A doctor's touch.

This is a wonderful Ted Talk, and it's also great steampunk story inspiration. :)

Steampunk music.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On forestmaiden's TBR List For Winter

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Most of these I already have, or else hope to get on Kindle. E-books have won me over -- they're not exactly properly REAL, but you can have as many as you like without taking up any space, which is absolutely brilliant.

1. Replication: The Jason Experiment by Jill Williamson. I watched the book trailers for this and I'm totally excited, can't wait to read it!
2. The Fiddler's Gun by Pete Peterson. Again, this sounds too awesome -- the plot sounds like something by Lloyd Alexander, one of my favorite authors. And the Kindle version is only 99 cents. *jumps up and down* Do want!
3. Heartless by Anne Elizabeth Stengl. I'm very curious about this one, it sounds like a beautiful fairy tale.
4. North! Or Be Eaten by Andrew Peterson. I've already started reading this one. A cool thing about books by Andrew Peterson is that, when he includes a song in the story, it reads like a true song and not just a regular poem, because he's a musician as well as a writer. Lots of fun wordplay here too.
5. From Darkness Won by Jill Williamson. I loved the first two books and I can't wait to see where she takes the characters next.
6. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan.
7. Arrow by R. J. Anderson.
8. The Monster In The Hollows by Andrew Peterson. Obviously, after I finish N!OBE, I'll have to read this one. :)
9. Blaggard's Moon by George Bryan Polivka. Pirates! I just got this book, but my brother has it right now, and he'll probably finish before I even start (when does that ever happen? LOL).
10. Starfire: The Mending by Stuart Vaughn Stockton. Not sure what to say about this one. It sounds really interesting, though.

Frost at last

First 28 degrees, in November? It seems crazy late to me. This is normal weather for a warm winter in this area, as I know quite well. The winter will most likely be full of record warm days and thunderstorms and hail. In some perfectly unexplainable way, that this should seem so strange to me is pretty peculiar. :P

Fog is beautiful.

People may think I'm crazy, but I like fog better than a sunny day. It hides ugly things and makes pretty things glow with beauty, gives everything an aura of mystery. Wide-open fields become as peaceful and shadowy as a forest. It's like stepping into a fairytale.

It also makes me miss Oregon. I'm sad when the sun emerges again, not the other way round, because the reverie is over. When I lived in Oregon, it was a little different -- in the Pacific Northwest, I can genuinely appreciate sunny days. But I'll always love fog, too, and rain, and storms.