a) reprise from April 2020:
APR 26, trees: gnarling
A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
a) reprise from April 2020:
APR 26, trees: gnarling
A continuation from the post of April 18
processing the morning's catch |
the "pelicatessen" reopens for lunch |
Henrietta poses for a formal portrait |
another five-lined skink |
tractor-seat plant |
snowy egret, afternoon fishing |
sediment balls, intertidal zone, sign of crabs' feeding activity. |
fiddler crab, carrying food, sandy edge of brackish marsh at low tide |
glossy privet hedge in bloom |
great blue heron, in crepuscular light |
sunset view from the boardwalk |
a) reprise from April 2020
Author's Note:
a) reprise from April 2020:
Start of the 'maiden voyage', 2015 (archival photo per RCH) |
a) reprise from 2020
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: star-nosed mole
Tom Lehrer, parodist |
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green anole, on backyard fence |
Henrietta, the sociable great egret, at Shem Creek boardwalk |
"Blue-tailed skink", the origin of that common name is obvious here; (juvenile five-lined skinks and broad-headed skinks have a similar appearance) |
a weight-lifting skink |
foraging nocturnal opossum captured in our porch light |
Henrietta watching kayakers |
"Hop to it" (on one leg), peculiar habit of many shorebirds |
African iris (floral break from all the fauna) |
pelican flight |
You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables -- in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE.
a) reprise from April 2020
APR 16, classic palindrome: "Do geese see God?"
web-photo Plato (portrait bust) sculptor: Silanion 370 B.C.E. |
a) reprise from April 2020