It is a common characteristic of Aspies that we tend toward
Intense Interests,
Perseverations even. For some it is a lifelong dominant interest, which for me would be railroads, though that has only episodically been as dominant as some Aspies' Intense Interests. I am more inclined to Serial Intense Interests - including periodic returns to railroads.
Somehow over the last week or so, my Intense Interest has become the Lewis & Clark Expedition, especially the nature studies. I've read four books in hardly more days, am well into a fifth, and have made reasonable progress in
another (left) in amongst.
Admittedly, two have been for younger readers, on
plants and
animals encountered by the expedition, but the others are for adult readers, and represent accomplishments for me. I often have trouble sticking it through adult nonfiction, even when I love the books.
The Lewis & Clark Expedition is not a new interest, except in this intensity, and I came to it when browsing a nature book shelf at the library and finding the above-mentioned
plant book. As passive-to-negligible as my interest in gardening, I have had a recurring interest in
wildflowers and
weeds.
My favorite of all the general books I have looked at so far, top image, is one I borrowed from Eliza. I came across it in a bookstore several years ago and thought
it was wonderful and would be a good gift for her. I hope she has enjoyed it too. It was the second Lewis & Clark book I read (at least recently).
The wonderful
Green World book (above left) is the one I am reading in bits and chunks, and it is suitable for reading that way, and whether or not I actually read it cover to cover, I expect to return to my own copy repeatedly in the future.
I am saving Stephen Ambrose's highly regarded
Undaunted Courage (right) for later. ;)
Yesterday Jo & I took my mom to lunch in Richmond Beach. It was a day of bright sunshine & blue skies, and we enjoyed the flowers coming along in people's yards, and made a brief tour down along the beach.
If you aren't from these parts you might have to look a little to find the top of Mount Rainier in the above picture.
The Bainbridge ferry is more obvious, but my actual subject yesterday was the virga.
I wandered out to Richmond Beach today, scouting for a possible outing for my mother. Unfortunately, neither the place we had in mind for lunch nor another destination are open Mondays.
Oh well.
Yesterday I was wandering further afield than usual & ended up at Picnic Point. From the footbridge over the railroad tracks, you can see an old beached ship hull.
Later, just north of Edmonds, I saw my first Brant of the season. Dozens spread out along the beach a little further up, and these two inspecting me more closely.
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