cosmolinguist | Image descriptions for real life (Reply)

I love how V does descriptions for me of wildlife that I can't see.

One of the first things they said to me this morning (and it was a fucking miserable day at work for me so this was particularly welcome) was that there was a flock of long-tailed tits outside, moving so quickly that they couldn't even see what color the little birds were. They said they'd seen long-tailed tits before but never a whole flock of them. So they'd just been standing at the kitchen window watching them zoom around our backyard.

And Saturday, when we were sitting on the patio enjoying the return of sunshine and summery weather (it might have hit 70°F!), they told me there was a hoverfly investigating my shoe to check if it was a flower. Those shoes have lime green trim which we decided might look very vivid and interesting to an insect sensorium.