WTF?
Oh dear. That’s never a happy start and from there it actually gets rude. I’m checking in on a group chat and now I’m sorry that I did. Before gently closing it, I involuntarily get the gist of the post (it’s political) but I don’t learn the details of exactly who has done what unforgivable thing. At this point, as someone once said, does it really matter?
No. In this case at least, it doesn’t.
My phone camera is ancient as these things go: it must be three years old at least. Of course, ongoing software updates help, but at some point I’ll be tempted to option-up to a newer version and will be current for about three months. Three weeks? Whatever.
In the meantime, it’s fun to get decent flower close-ups without lugging around a camera that weighs a few pounds – more if I take more than one lens with me.
It will even get decent shots of insects.
I can (sometimes) do better with my big camera, but as they say, the best camera is the one you have with you. More and more, that’s my phone, which lets me entertain myself at a low carrying cost, as it were.
Good news! I just stumbled across clear instructions on how to set up my phone to receive emergency alerts.
Bad news! It’s mostly for the USA.
Good news! I sometimes travel in the USA.
On the self-same visit to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum that generated deep thoughts about language and sexual roles/stereotypes, we saw this CT-114 Tutor aircraft hanging upside down in the foyer.
Why was it upside down?
Playful creativity–even or especially in a museum display–is a joy forever.
Womanize: verb (disapproving)
A man who womanizes often has temporary sexual relationships with women or tries to get women to have sex with him.
Womanize, womanized, womanizing:
: to make effeminate (transitive verb)
: to pursue casual sexual relationships with multiple women (intransitive verb)
Womanized:
: made effeminate, feminized
Thus spake, not Zarathustra, but three online dictionaries: Cambridge, Merriam-Webster, and Collins, respectively. Merriam-Webster helpfully offered 16 similar words. It’s pretty subtle but see if you can spot the occasional disapproving tone:
mated, coupled,
slept, copulated, lay,
fornicated, made out, lusted,
played (around), fooled around,
cheated, stepped out, philandered,
catted (around), screwed around, tomcatted (around)
A recent rain left this pallet of water droplets on one of our evergreens: perhaps a Calgary juniper, although I no longer remember its name with any confidence.
What is generating the pink/purple colour in the droplets? I’m not sure, but it could be what I was wearing, although neither are my colours. Some funky refraction, I guess.
What invisible something is suspending the droplets? I’m not sure, but I suspect a spider web–not my happiest suspension suspicion but a reminder that nothing is all good or all bad. Even spiders, you ask? For now, I’m suspending judgement.
As we tour a family member around Lanark County (7 Wonders!), we stop at Pakenham, famous for its now-historic 5-arch stone bridge and for its always-fresh butter tarts, not necessarily in that order. The bridge may not be the primary attraction, but it is lovely.
This day, there is a raft of ducks in the water just above the rapids. At first glance, the ducks are close to all being of a size, but closer inspection confirms that they’re a female and a host of younger ones: not babies or even toddlers, I’m thinking, but teenagers.
Getting out and about is a good thing, often because of the view when I get back to the car. In accordance with my blog categories, are these Photos of Built Stuff, or Photos of Landscapes? Yes.
These scenes don’t have any big significance but they make me happy. Maybe that’s significance enough.
Using your words, not your hands, describe this structure to someone who can’t see it. I’ll wait.
The anhinga is nicknamed "snake bird" for no very obvious reason.
