The weather continues to be good, which meant yours truly and her not so Aged Mother did a lot of hiking these recent days (one of the funner ways to lose weight). I took my camera along, and some of the results are below the cut.

( I'm not Vincent, but I did my best via camera )

The one thing I regret about these holidays is just the limited onlinen life (or indeed time to read books, or redraft an essay), but well, it can't be helped. In another week it will be over, and until then, I just hope the weather holds so my mother & self can enjoy the scenery some more.

I tid, however, spot one spectacular X-Men fanfiction this morning: Anthem for Doomed Youth, which is an epic and wonderful Raven story, covering her years of growing up until the end of the film. Charles and Erik are well drawn as well, everyone is complicated and shades of grey and not black and white, and it's just beautiful, but the main reason I bounced was that this is the Raven story I hoped someone would write after I saw the film for the first time.