Cross-posted from Big Pretzel

Title: The Bee
Author: kira
Genre: slice of life
Characters: Castiel
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Warning/Spoilers: none
Summary: Castiel visits a botanical garden and finds a bee…
Author’s Note: Please note this was unbetaed, so any mistakes therein are my own.
Disclaimer: Don’t own Supernatural; wish I did!

A bee
staggers out
of the peony.

By Matsuo Basho (translated by Robert Hass)

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Title: Ramble On
Author: kira
Genre: slice of life
Characters: Dean, Sam
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Warning/Spoilers: none
Summary: The boys are on the road again…
Author’s Note: Please note this was unbetaed, so any mistakes therein are my own. The title also comes from the title of the Led Zeppelin song Dean is singing, “Ramble On.” It’s by Robert Plant & Jimmy Page.
Disclaimer: Don’t own Supernatural; wish I did!


All That Is Gold by JRR Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

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Title: The Road So Far
Author: kira
Genre: slice of life
Characters: Dean, Sam
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Warning/Spoilers: none
Summary: The boys are on the road and who knows where it will bring them?
Author’s Note: Please note this was unbetaed, so any mistakes therein are my own.
Disclaimer: Don’t own Supernatural; wish I did!


The Road Goes Ever On by JRR Tolkien

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.

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:D

Yesterday I went to the City with my friend to get the tickets they won in a second round lottery for Dead & Company (basically the Grateful Dead minus the late, great Jerry Garcia & Phil Lesh, who was touring with his own band). They were doing a charity thing & tickets were given out & a good time was had by all at the concert, but I'm getting ahead of myself. XD So my friend & I need to be in the City at the charity's headquarters' between 1 & 3. We were there at 12 & got there before the people that work there. XD We did what they said, namely go wait in the lobby for them. We were 1st on line & got tickets for crappy behind the stage seats, but, hey, they're free, so all's good. Since it's like 1:15 or so & the show doesn't start until 7, we decided to wander around & try & find some lunch. So we just went with the flow & passed through time square at one point, passed a game store with a giant Pikachu out front, and eventually wound up in Bryant park. They have a lil carousel there & as someone who loves carousels I rode it twice. XD And it's an adorable lil thing, with one chariot (the benches you see on a carousel), 1 stationary horse with a stationary deer next to it, some horses, a kitten, frog, and bunny. It's a small carousel only 2 animals across & they play French cabaret music. Adults & kids can ride for $3, with a discount for I think it's like 5 tickets. They also have a winter village of small kiosks where you can buy stuff & food. We bought pretzels & water & sat & watched the ice-skaters to kill some time. :D They have a free ice rink & you can also rent skates. :D Seriously, if I lived near this place, I'd be there all the time. It's a small park, but it's nice. They also do a kids' show with songs & I guess a skit, I wasn't really paying attention XD, but the lil kids loved it & when it was done they all wanted to ride the carousel, which is right next to it. XD According top their site, they also do kids' bday parties. :D After that we visited the NYC public library, known only to em form various TV shows & movies & I wanted to see it. It's a beautiful library! Full of marble & it's just a grand place to be! It was sad that they were searching peeps bags for books, but understandable, when leaving. XD

More wandering around, back to winter village, which was when we got the pretzels for dinner & watched the skaters. I took another spin on the carousel & we wandered around some more & ended up by Radio City Music Hall. :D by then it was dark, so time to head to MSG. We get there in time for the tie-dye fest, otherwise known as the gathering of dead heads. :D We're sitting hanging out & when these guys got up, we took their spot. I also went to see the mouse colony at MSG. There's a planter box with nothing planted there, but it's full of mice, so being the nature lover I am, I had to look at them & wonder who feeds them & I wished I had some of my pretzel left as I felt sorry for them. XD I'm probably the only person who does too. XD So back to sitting & hanging out. There's this woman there & I got to talking with her & this guy walks up to us & asks me if I like pink & I was like yeah. He gives me a pink tie-dye t-shirt he made. Pretty shirt btw. :D I put it on cuz a) I was kinda cold & b) I didn't feel like carrying it. XD So all's good, we talk then split up to go inside. After passing through the metal detectors, we head to the right to go get our seats & just hang. Unfortunately, there's an issue with the tickets not scanning, so they send us to the ticket counter. We're like salmon swimming upstream at this point, cuz by now there's enough peeps inside to make a crowd. Anyway, we get to the ticket window & whatever the issue was it's resolved according to the ticket guy. So we decide to go to our right (which would have been left initially), only to have the same issue. XD My friend gets angry, manger is called, story retold, manger takes us back to the ticket guy, apparently the issue's still there, but he goes, here, take these tickets instead. So we take them, thank everyone involved, & finally get in, only to discover we went from crappy behind the stage tickets to excellent near the back, but facing the stage tickets! :D Score!! So free tickets, free upgrade & free shirt! :D

And while I didn't really know that many songs, I still had an awesoem time. :D (And after the Friday, I had, I needed it. :D)