Podfic + filk song

Title: Five Things That Never Happened To Aubrey & Maturin, One: Invasion
Author: astolat
Fandom: Master and Commander
Pairing: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
Rating: R
Length: 1 h 11 m 34 s
Author's summary: Napoleon invades Britain.
Notes: This is wonderfully written alternative history, and was fun to record. Thanks to the author for her blanket permission!

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Title: Cold Snowy North
Characters: Fraser and various other canon characters
Rating: PG
Genre: bluegrass song (for the ds_flashfiction genre challenge)
Length: 8 verses
Summary: Fraser's journey from north to south and then back again.
Notes: This is a rewritten version of the traditional bluegrass song "Bright Sunny South". You can find the original lyrics here, and you can hear the song as performed by the Union Station band here. Thanks to j_s_cavalcante for looking the partial lyrics over a long time ago (yes, this has lain forgotten in my WIP folder for a long time, before I decided that I should finish it off for this challenge). Also thanks to mizface for more recent beta-reading, and to the ficfinishing comm. I meant to record this with my sister, as I usually do with filk songs, but alas, she's in the south and I'm in the north, so it'll have to wait.

Cold Snowy North

"Vinterståndare" in the snow

I was out by the sea yesterday with a couple of friends (well, for a certain value of sea--it's very brackish), and it was beautiful, especially with the newly-fallen snow. There were lots of "vinterståndare", which is the Swedish word for what's left of a herbaceous plant in the wintertime. Is there an English word for that?

( Anyway, here are some photos (click through for bigger ones) )