The (Almost) Daily Vignette

"So what should I do?"

Contessa smiled in a motherly way, kind without pity. It went quite well with her colorful hand knit sweater. "No advice for you on keeping Lars out. I don't dispense wisdom, just expensive coffee. Your cappuccino sir," she said handing over a nicely frothy drink in a plain white cup.

"What all small town coffee shop owners don't dispense wisdom with coffee and scrambled eggs? I feel so cheated," Dave said with mock outrage. "Is there nothing of my unparalleled knowledge of television that is true?"

"I could live up to part of that stereotype and give you a lap full of coffee when I get backtalk."

"I retreat!" Still grinning Dave took his cup back to read more of the paper. Outside the windows a few flakes of snow started to dust down upon Ithill's main street.

Lars was messing with his Einstein styled sandy hair as he recalled something Harry Winston had said about the French. The snow had made a connection in the cat's cradle that is his memory. "Hey Dave, want to go hot tubing?"

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Islands in Sky and Sea

In the desert there stands a great mesa. It rises high above the dry lands all around it a squat pillar of rock twenty-seven kilometers around. There is no easy way up from below, the rim of this mesa being so hard that the sandstone under wears away to a nearly shear cliff of dirty orange and red. From here where the rubble covered base ends it is another seven hundred meters straight up. With another eight hundred vertical meters of rough slopes all around it puts the top at over fifteen hundred meters above the desert floor and 2,800 meters above the sea. It is a mountain with no peak.

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The Darwin's Island Meme: Imagine an island or other isolated place of no more than a few hundred square kilometers (no bigger than about Elba, 224 sq km). Then start adding species from wherever and imagine how they might evolve in isolation. Then post descriptions to your journal. Inspired by the creative book After Man by Dougal Dixon.