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ring-billed gulls |
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alligators (juveniles) |
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lionfish |
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sculpture at the Matsumoto City Art Gallery |
A blogsite (daily.edifyingnonsense.com) that offered 30 entertaining oddities each month from 2020 through 2024, now serving as an archive for 1800 posts accumulated over those five years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- were drawn from daily life, including work, family-life and travel. Illustrated poems and wordplay grouped by topic can also be found on our ongoing blog "Edifying Nonsense".
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Ken Burns, documentary film-maker at a press conference (public invited) on his imminent release "The American Revolution" |
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a local shrimp-boat captain; recently installed lifelike replica |
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a liquor-store giraffe |
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cool oldster at a public dance, Marine Park, Mt Pleasant (under the Cooper River Bridge) |
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a majestic great egret |
SNOWBIRD-NEST HAIKU #1
hidden pipes, rotting,
joined to copper stubs at sinks --
a potential mess!
Giorgio Coniglio
LOWCOUNTRY HAIKU #3
Giorgio Coniglio
HAIKU POEM #1
HAIKU POEM #2
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am I dreaming? |
Giorgio Coniglio
LOWCOUNTRY HAIKU #4
LOWCOUNTRY HAIKU #6
seeking salty warmth,
US crocs, unlike gators,
stick to south FL.
the Japanese inverted triangle stop sign |
remember to flip your card! |
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for disposing of used food-wrappers from lunch at an upscale Nagoya lunch self-serve |
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archaic font for an ultra-modern bus |
It was inevitable that high-tech toilets with a bidet function, found very widely in modern Japan, would come up for discussion. The operation and instructions vary from model to model, but are always imposing. Here, the customer seems to be advised to not wash while his/her lamplight (?) is turned on.
Kobayashi Issa
TODAY's HAIKU POEM
Avid readers can find specific instances of couples' portraits on this blog. On our related blog, "Edifying Nonsense", they can find five lengthier posts, each accumulating eight to ten of these displays from our folio. There are now close to 50 of these demonstrations of close relationships in the animal world, reflecting those in the human realm. Start with the post of Febrary 10, 2021, that also discusses the pandemic-era initiative that instituted this effort!
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American flamingos |
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white-faced capuchin monkeys |
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golden koi |
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ring-billed gulls |
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alligators (juveniles) |
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lionfish |
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sculpture at the Matsumoto City Art Gallery |