Jabba the Hutt meets Greek nymph? How else to account both for those (thick) (down-turned) lips and for that leafy hair?
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Photo Memory of the Week
Cloud of the Week
Ladies and gentlemen, meet this week's cloud(s). I stumbled across it while walking to a clematis-site sighting from the previous day. By the time I got somewhere without any intervening tree branches, the cloud and the colours had moved on. Forget carpe diem: this is more like arripe occasionem.
Place: Calgary
Posted: 2026 Oct 09Read my posts about clouds: here and here
Read knowledgeable stuff about clouds: here
Music of the Week
Quotes of the Week
Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answersIn tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.This could be our last winter, it could be manyMore, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:Do what you must, be wise, cut your vinesAnd forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair.
- Horace's Ode I:11Posted: Oct 08
Vocabulary of the Week
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Your dryad appears to have dallied with the Dionysians, which makes a placemat the perfect spot for an appearance of the poor dear.
Laurna – Yes, looking a bit like the Beatles’ song, perhaps – a hard day’s night.
Once you start seeing them, you can’t stop.
It’s like reading: once you learn how…
Barbara – Or could be that my brain has learned to see them better – like the 3D dot pictures that take some learning to get onto. It certainly started out slowly, but right now I’m in a phase where I see at least one a week. New environment, perhaps, as well as getting out and about more.