Interstices & Liminal Spaces

devohoneybee  asked, pick 3 of your favorite characters, and say what their favorite breakfast in bed is (bonus points for who serves it) .

So, randomly off of my icons!  (Easiest way to pick some favorites, you see.)

Steve Rogers -- Pancakes -- with jelly or peanut butter or Nutella, now that Tony's introduced him to it, bacon by the pan, and eggs any way he can get them.  That said, poached eggs are his favorite because that was his mom's favorite style and meant a day when she had time to cook.  He also loves oranges because that remind him of holidays with Bucky.

Methos -- He'll tell you beer, and if he's cooking, that might be breakfast.  If he has nothing else that morning, that is; otherwise, whatever he can warm up quickly.  Miso soup's a favorite.  If he can get Duncan to cook for him, though, the more extravagant the dish, the better.  Eggs Bendedict, or crepes with half a dozen fillings savory and sweet, the best coffee (that Duncan had tucked away for Connor's next visit) spiked with whipped cream and the whisky that was also tucked aside for Connor.  He's a man of simple tastes -- running Duncan ragged in a kitchen is simple, right?

Darius -- Technically, he's grateful for any morning where he gets to stay in bed.  If he's in St. Julien's in Paris, his favorite breakfast is croissants from the patisserie next to Madame Dessessart's cafe and anything she (or her son; she's getting older and mostly oversees lunch and dinner these days) sends him.  Anything.  Quiche, a ham and brie sandwich with her apricot preserves, tarte au citron or tarte tatin, the new soup they made the day before (to let the flavors meld overnight) and want his opinion on today....  He works hard at not committing gluttony there.  Failing that, though, tea, toast, and a book and he's a perfectly happy man.


As for Day 3, I'm going with a purely random one:  Favorite constellation.  I love the Pleiades, but Orion wins. When I start seeing it in the sky, it's my sign that colder weather is coming. Since I'm definitely an autumn person, that's welcome news.

::...looks at the time::  Yeah, okay, I have *got* to go to bed now.  But not until I link to this.  A solar eclipse quilt. Appropriate icon is so appropriate.

Time lapse photoshow of auroras over Norway over here; be sure to hit the play button.  The initial picture is lovely but the time lapse is amazing.. *Gorgeous beyond words*.  (I would so stay out and freeze to death watching these.)

What a lovely weekend! Warm enough to air out the house and go hiking -- plenty of deer to be seen, and a muskrat far off yesterday and much closer today. We went to an astronomy talk Friday night on the large moons in the solar system, then got to see the Orion Nebula and Saturn and Titan through telescopes. Saturday, we went hiking on both easy and moderate paths (strenuous will have to wait for a weekend when my ankle isn't throbbing); today we went on the easy paths. Cute dogs everywhere, and birds, and more turtles sunning in the surprising warmth than I'd have expected. It was really nice.

Then alysswolf IM'd me to tell me that Animal Planet was running the 'Puppy Bowl,' which has been hilarious. Puppies in a mock-stadium, playing with toys (lots of small footballs), and pawing at the glass waterbowl (with the camera under it!) and barking, and being rotated in and out as they get tired. Great fun if you get a chance to watch!

Now I'm off to write in between waiting for commercial on the Super Bowl. (Watch the game? Nah.)