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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Sep 05
Music of the Week
Quotes of the Week
From the #ItsGoodToBeKing file . . .
“Philip, by the grace of God king of the French, to Boniface who acts as though he were pope, little or no greeting. Let your great fatuity know that in temporalities we are subject to no-one…”
Philip IV “the Fair” of France responding to a letter from Pope Boniface VIII rebuking the king for appointing clerics without regard to papal wishes, a letter that was conspicuously burned, quoted in Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church & State 1050-1300
Source: John Robson Online
Posted: 2025 Sep 06
Tag Archives: Flowers
More Sunflowers, Alberta
That’s an impressive planting of sunflowers. No mingy rows here. Continue reading
Sunflowers, Ottawa
Pick your own flower. Or photograph. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Flora, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Flowers, Reflections
2 Comments
Lilies and Bees
Photos from out-&-about. Continue reading
Lilacs? Capital!
Ask, and it will be given to you. Well, don’t ask and your odds are way worse, but that doesn’t make such a snappy line of Scripture. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Laughing Frequently, Through Canada
Tagged Flowers, Miscellany
9 Comments
Study in Yellow
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Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora
Tagged Attitudes, Flowers
4 Comments
Tooth of Lion, Bane of Flea
Next thing you know we’ll be dragging Shakespeare into this: eye of newt, toe of frog and all that. Continue reading
Magnolia Termina
A last gasp worthy of a gasp. Continue reading
Magnolia Stupenda
And to think that thousands of folks were at the Tulip Festival about a mile away, thinking it was the bee’s knees. Continue reading
The Terrible, Horrible
The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora
Tagged Aging, Family, Flowers, Reflections
28 Comments