Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Look! Real blossom! Growing things!

The other day, when I said The alders are doing that feathery thing, a couple of people asked what I meant. I…

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Posted on March 26, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Dolphins and snow in Puget Sound

NASA image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning to snow. Just a pretty dusting but, still: snow. Yet last week the…

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Posted on January 10, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

In the valley of the frost giants

I’ve had a wonderful first 36 hours of 2011. It began with two delicious bottles of Champagne: our last bottle of Krug,…

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Posted on January 2, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

First green and growing things of 2011

So the kerbs are starting the year well: The chives (out of frame) are tall and skinny, supercilious and supermodel-y. The basil,…

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Posted on January 1, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

2010 in pictures: green and growing things

I got a bit obsessed with plant-based lifeforms this year: the trees in the ravine, the garden, the pot herbs on the…

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Posted on December 28, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Sunshine, blue skies, happiness in the PNW

This is what I saw when I sat down, bleary-eyed this morning, for my tea: This, O People of the Northwest, is…

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Posted on December 13, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Nickel Creek and the Kerbs

Not a new band name, sadly. Nope, we’re in the middle of a Pineapple Express. Under the house, the sump pump is…

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Posted on December 12, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Evergreens and icicles

Thanksgiving morning: a closeup of the icicle frozen in mid-pour over the rhododendron bush outside Kelley’s office. For some reason it pleased…

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Posted on November 27, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

What a difference a day makes

So here’s a shot of the garden outside my office window Sunday morning. (Taken through a screened and shut double-paned window therefore…

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Posted on November 23, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Slate grey

This is the screen shot from my iGoogle yesterday afternoon. Clear and simple. The morning, though, was beautiful and strange: slate grey…

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Posted on November 18, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Gratuitous tree shot

Every autumn I take photos of the sherbet-coloured leaves on the trees outside my office window. Every autumn I end up with…

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Posted on November 12, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Update: Hild, health, happiness

I’m still very tired, but that’s about what I expected at this stage. The best thing I can report is that nothing…

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Posted on October 26, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Farewell to the colours of summer

A melancholy, rainy day here in Seattle. But briefly this afternoon the clouds thinned to gauze and the garden blazed. I took…

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Posted on October 10, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Holy cloud, batbeing…

KOMOnews.com Look at the forecast. Look at the icon for my birthday: an unadorned round shining sun. I am gasping with disbelief…

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Posted on September 28, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Our ten-day birthday jubilee

KOMOnews.com Look at that weather forecast: some sun every day, even into October. If it turns out to be true, this will…

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Posted on September 26, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Wet sunshine, dry mist

Here are photos from two morning this week. The first (taken by Kelley) is mist over the ravine, on what turned out…

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Posted on September 19, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Fog and sun and Hild

Yesterday began draped in mist. I stood outside in my sweater, tea in one hand, and listened to the trees in the…

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Posted on September 15, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

What are you reading?

It’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…

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Posted on August 23, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tired but happy

I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…

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Posted on August 17, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Perbs in the mist…

…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…

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Posted on August 3, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Fruit, fruit, more fruit–and c-r-e-a-m….

I spent most of yesterday eating. Nectarines, cherries, raspberries, all with lashings of thick thick thick fresh fresh fresh cream. I just…

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Posted on July 5, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Same sex marriage, and other linkage

The Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, has just voted unanimously for same-sex marriage. Unanimously. This makes me happy. In case you’ve forgotten, Iceland is…

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Posted on June 12, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ravine World

I’ve been sitting on the deck in the sun, watching, listening, comparing today’s garden and ravine sights and sounds with those of…

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Posted on March 24, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

well, now, lookee here

This is the forecast for Seattle weather. In February. Wow. I am very, very happy.

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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

the sun shone–and I can prove it

First, it rained (note wet deck). Then it shone (note wet shiny deck with genuine shadows). Blue skies. Birds singing. Green-tipped buds…

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Posted on February 15, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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