Meeeeelting

[icepixie]

Photographic evidence that it is entirely too hot here. (Weather.com says the heat index is at 111F. Gaaaaah.)

Apparently there was a huge sale on cherries, so now I have YET MORE. These are the darker Bings, and they make an attractive collage with the lighter claim-to-be-Bings-but-I-think-they're-Rainiers. (I am going to be eating cherries until they come out my EARS.)

Have two swamp hibiscus flowers: here and here. This flowers have bloomed about five and a half feet up on the six feet and some change stalks, so my angle was not so great. They're still nifty, though. Each flower is about as big as my head. They're definitely a tropical sort of plant.

And have a blooming crape myrtle. Our neighbors' are more impressive, but I haven't been out that way with a camera in a while.

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Also, have a poll! (Dreamwidth folks, see the LJ version of this entry to vote.)

[Poll #1760992]

Purely because I'm curious. (I'm option B, BTW, although I'm interpreting it loosely to mean "variations on a song I've heard" as well as completely new arrangements of notes. At any rate, I'm usually humming something, or at least I have a tune playing in my head.)

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[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Mostly tunes I've heard, but occasionally really simple tunes I make up in the moment.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Um. You don't have an option for D: Both.

:)

I send you a winter icon in hope of cooling you off a bit...

[ladysorka]

I tend to do both. Though I'm honestly more likely to sing to myself than to hum to myself.

[icepixie]

I think mine mostly come out to really wild variations on something I've heard. Some simple four-note thing will expand to twenty notes, all across my range, and sound basically nothing like the original.

[icepixie]

Think of it as a really evil multiple choice test and pick the one you do more often. :)

I send you a winter icon in hope of cooling you off a bit...

Thanks. :)

[icepixie]

Yeah, I do both as well, but I think I tend to go more for the original, or mostly-original tunes. Generally if I start out humming (or singing) something to myself, it mutates into a completely unrecognizable new thing about five notes in. :)

[forsweatervests.livejournal.com]

Can I pick A AND B? It tends to be a pretty even split.

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

I live in the tropics and I've never seen hibiscus flowers that large! *L*

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Uuuuuugh, 90 degrees here and no air conditioning, urrrrrrrrrgh. And west-facing windows ugggggghhhhhhhhhh. And making iced tea requires turning the stove on uuuuuugggggghhhhhh! Summer I love you but you can take it down a notch, plz.

When I hum it's more A but some B.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Hah. This thermometre has a handy Celsius scale, too - hooray! Otherwise, I'd just have asked you how hot 100 °F are. ;) But yes, that's far, far too hot. We do have maybe 86°F here, and I think it's almost insufferable.

[icepixie]

Think of it as a really horrible multiple choice test and pick the one you do most, even by 1%. ;)

[icepixie]

Really? Wow! I tend to think of really huge flowers like that as native to areas without a winter to slow them down.

[icepixie]

Uuuuuuggghhhhh, I hear you on the west-facing windows. The ones in the living room of my apartment faced south and west, and it was bad even in winter, when I had to turn the radiators off just to avoid opening the windows.

Mine tends to start off A, then go really weird, B-ish places.

[icepixie]

Uuuuggghhhh, so tired of hot. No one should have to endure 100 degrees and 70+ percent humidity, ugh ugh ugh. 86 sounds delightful. That's about the point where I would turn on the air conditioner at my old, extremely well-ventilated apartment.

[pezprez.livejournal.com]

Have two swamp hibiscus flowers

You use these jumanji dart plants to scare away the kudzu, right?

[forsweatervests.livejournal.com]

Then...B. And it's always the same, completely tuneless three notes.

[icepixie]

I think they would run out and welcome kudzu to the neighborhood, actually.

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Both! Usually stuff I've run across over the years or songs we used to sing in choir, but every now and then I string some Maren-original tunes together. If I had any skill for writing music, I might attempt to put them down on paper to see if I could form a whole, but so far I'm too lazy to make the attempt. Or too easily distracted to remember what I had been humming in the first place.

[icepixie]

I wish I could transfer some of mine to written form. I can read music, but I'm not good enough at it to figure out where on the staff my notes would go.