October Coffee Cup
A bit late as usual but here’s the October coffee cup. This month I chose a sunflower cup. Somehow, even though I found this cup on sale around June or July, it just seems to shout FALL to me. The leaves around here are starting to turn (well some of them are). The temps are going down into the 50s at night and not higher than 70s during the warm days. The garden is still putting out green tomatoes and some lettuce. But, I know it’s the beginning of the end of summer here.
We brought our Meyer Lemon Tree in off the deck for the winter. He was already not particularly liking the cooler night time temps. He dropped a bunch of leaves in protest. So, now he sits on the rug in front of the sliding glass doors and seems to be all perky and happy. (Okay, so I anthropomorphise my plants — scientific studies have shown that plants like to be talked to and giving them gender and names — this one is Meyer, variety and name, I never said I was original — makes it easier to talk to them.)
This month is going to be very busy. Next weekend, Hyperion and I will be at Bouchercon which is a mystery convention. I’ve never been before so it should be lots of fun. We’re going to be covering the convention for Gumshoe Review. Our usual method is to blog about the convention daily with some photos. Then we do a major upload of photographs to the Gumshoe Review Flickr account, and a general overview of the convention for Gumshoe with a pointer to the daily, more detail blog reports.
We’ll also be attending Capclave. Capclave is the science fiction convention sponsored by WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association) — tagline is: where reading is not extinct (hence the dodo mascot). Hyperion and I are members of WSFA and have been attending for a few years now. We’ll be covering this convention for SFRevu — with the same method of daily blog articles and the full blown report in SFRevu. Check out the convention website and if you’re in the area please come to the convention. The guests of honor this year are James Morrow and Michael Dirda. It’s small about 300-400 people. The ratio of writers, publishers, reviews, and SF professionals to fans is fairly high. There’s some really interesting program items. There are also some workshops that, if you are an aspiring or beginning writer, you’ll find very helpful. There’s no extra charge over the membership fee for the workshops. So, if you’re in the area drop in and check it out.