1st "Woooo" of Spring;>

[mdehners]

Sooooo, today I Saw my 1st Wights since Yule! Apparently, they're common enough that Cryptid and Ghost Hunters have recorded them. They're generally cally "Flying Rods" because that's basically what they are. In NW Florida they were prey to these VW beetle sized things that acted like anemones. I've only seen the rods here though. They move like squid on speed;>!
Maybe Spring's FINALLY coming!
Cheers,
Pat

Comments

[weofodthignen]

Hope so! I gave up and changed the pic on the HT list home page. We have 70s and forecast to get near 90 on Sunday. Ridiculous. I know we sent you a big ol' storm a few weeks back; could you send one back this way, please?

... More seriously, I'm surprised wights are weather-sensitive. Maybe harder to see them in winter weather? But the only kind I'm aware of having seen are the black smoky swirls under bushes, and it was a long time ago and I don't remember whether it would be in all seasons.

[mdehners]

I think it's more that we have (generally) distinct seasons. I've noticed at least here that as the leaves fall the outdoor Wights slow down and disappear. Some, like the vatnavaettr and tomte hibernate. The former are kind of creepy laying half buried in the lake and cove mud...eyes open and staring up. The latter burrow and I can See the mounds over them all Winter. No changes with those 2 yet....
Love,
Pat

[weofodthignen]

Interesting. I hope I haven't tromped on any of either type. You used to live in SF - did you see vatnavættir at Ocean Beach, or are fresh and salt-water types different?

[mdehners]

Honestly, never Saw anything there. Felt nothing(other than sadness) at the City beach but the Headlands? Quite the Presence from the Land and a Feeling of deep movement from the water. Never Saw anything unfortunately. The Mission and esp the park between it and the Castro...very visible. Think a ritualised battle from 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' where everything looks like they're made of soap bubbles. Almost every week.
Love,
Pat(that weird friend;>)

[weofodthignen]

I think the park must be Mission Dolores Park (don't know the city well), so might have something to do with the local genocide ... :-( Elsewhere in the city, there must be lots of parks haunted by those who were buried there, including Buenavista (? - may have the wrong park), where they used the gravestones to make the paths ...

Interesting on the Headlands and the localized Ocean presence. I used to go to Ocean Beach every month to blót, till the pandemic. But it's a big beach, I rode to the end of the N-Judah—dunes, surfer dudes, dog people, remains of illicit fires, and the occasional raven—and both the top bit near the Cliff House and the lower part with the graffiti murals (and the drain outfall) felt different. And now of course the highway is a park, so I imagine the land spirits of all kinds are recolonizing those dunes. But I could have been standing on somebody for all I knew.