This week brings me two revisits of recent topics: dressing-room hooks, and flowers planted by someone else that I can enjoy.
The same store chain; a different set of hooks.
Just across the street
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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2023 Nov 25
Tweet of the Week
I was this-many years old when I learned the origin of the expression "a bolt from the blue."
Lightning comes in different flavors.
But can you name the different types of bolts?
This chart does a useful and interesting recap.
[📈 John Blackford]
[📸 Olivier Vandeginste/atmospheres.be] pic.twitter.com/6TfegNqBmT— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 25, 2023
The Week’s Best Example of Making Merry
LOL! 🤣
Long before babies can speak conventionally, they begin laughing - making laughter one of humankind’s earliest and most important forms of communication.
For your baby, laughter (which typically begins at about 3 months of age) conveys much more than just “I find this… https://t.co/zoIYstbiNG pic.twitter.com/gM0PqCET7a
— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori) November 23, 2023
Music of the Week
Posted: 2023 Nov 25
Poetry of the Week
This is not a loaf of bread
This is daily sanctuary
This is breakfast in bed
Or beans on toast for tea.This is not a loaf of bread
This is shared community
This is a soup-dipped crust
Or a picnic lunch for three.This is not a loaf of bread
This is tasty alchemy
This is a gravy soaker-upper
Or a gourmet chip butty.This is not a loaf of bread
This is a crafted recipe
Of sun and rain and earth
And oven-baked poetry.Notices
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oh yes!
(couldn’t find how to italicize the yes)
Thanks for looking for us.
Judith – Thanks for enjoying them. 🙂
Ah, bougainvillea…. These show all red, but I’ve seen them covering walls and terraces in other tropical locations, where they mixed red and yellow and orange and white… Always spectacular.
I must see if my nursery can find me one I can grow indoors…
Jim T
Jim – 🙂 Yes, I saw hedges of many colours in Guatemala, also. Here, the city/county seems to plant just the red ones along the freeways, but a house around the corner from us has mingled red and purple. Lovely. Good luck with the nursery.