2 posts tagged “spring”
It was foggy and raining the entire time during the hike up yesterday. The entire lake was frozen over and covered in snow. Kind of a soggy day. Nice out today, though. There's a severe weather alert tsunami warning for the Seattle area right now at weather.com so I think that it is safe to say there will be some pretty good winds on the lake tomorrow and this upcoming week. Who knows... who really does know? The cosmonauty... This little clip reminded me of this really insane movie that I had watched a long, long time ago when I must have been about eight.
It was on this French-Canadian public television channel at nearly 2 am in the morning. What really bothers me is that I can't remember the name. It must have been produced in the late 1960's or 1970's. It was about this man's dreams (or rather nightmares) that affect reality. He approaches a doctor for help who instead exploits his strange powers. The world is changed overnight into that of a nuclear holocaust. Each day the doctor uses him to change the world, but always what happens is the outcomes grow worse and worse. It was a really strange and frightening sci-fi movie. It kind of ended rather off-beat/ironic though because the robot, who replaced part of the human race in the man's nightmares, ended up serving ice cream out of his little moving trolley cart with a colorful balloon attached to it. I had always wanted to learn what the name of that movie was and I still am very much trying to find out. The only other time I have heard it spoken of was earlier this Autumn on a morning show of NPR. Low and behold, although I was listening intently to the program and remember very much about the commentary, I forgot again its title...
It was on this French-Canadian public television channel at nearly 2 am in the morning. What really bothers me is that I can't remember the name. It must have been produced in the late 1960's or 1970's. It was about this man's dreams (or rather nightmares) that affect reality. He approaches a doctor for help who instead exploits his strange powers. The world is changed overnight into that of a nuclear holocaust. Each day the doctor uses him to change the world, but always what happens is the outcomes grow worse and worse. It was a really strange and frightening sci-fi movie. It kind of ended rather off-beat/ironic though because the robot, who replaced part of the human race in the man's nightmares, ended up serving ice cream out of his little moving trolley cart with a colorful balloon attached to it. I had always wanted to learn what the name of that movie was and I still am very much trying to find out. The only other time I have heard it spoken of was earlier this Autumn on a morning show of NPR. Low and behold, although I was listening intently to the program and remember very much about the commentary, I forgot again its title...
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The blossoms are out in full force on this final day of March at the
University of Washington campus in Seattle. Perhaps the most famous
photographic scene aside from the jetting Drumheller Fountain with Mt.
Rainier in the background is the University Quad with the sakura cherry
blossoms in full bloom. The season is only supposed to last around two
weeks. Today marks the fourteenth day.
The day began with overcast skies and early morning showers. By around
noon the rain had surrendered to calm but still darkened skies. With
luck, the coming weather will improve and
last-minute leaf-peepers will still get a chance to view the blossoms
before their time passes, and a year will go by before they bloom again. .
