A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over thirteen hundred unique posts in these four years. Images, both photographic and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from verses, photos and computer-graphics on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense".
April 30, 2023
APR 30, American satire (prolongation): criminal lying
April 29, 2023
* APR 29, a brief saga -- 'Claire's celerity'
reprise from 2020
APR 29, a brief saga: 'Claire's celerity'
April 28, 2023
APR 28, defining opinion: crepuscular
April 27, 2023
* APR 27, bi-lyrical verse -- dual rhyme schemes
reprise from 2020
APR 27, bi-lyrical limerick: dual-rhyme schemes
April 26, 2023
APR 26, "pictures at a renovation": the second week
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front hall |
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kitchen |
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DR |
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den |
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master bath (shower construction underway) |
April 25, 2023
* APR 25, Carolina lowcountry -- spring excursions
reprise from 2020
APR 25, Carolina lowcountry: further spring excursions
April 24, 2023
APR 24, urban concerns: aged street tree
April 23, 2023
* APR 23, new world palindromes (#15,#16)
reprise from 2020
APR 23, new world palindromes (#15,#16)
April 22, 2023
APR 22, non-sequitur: hope for victims of bullying
Authors' Note: We attended an inspiring book launch this afternoon.
Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an unusual assortment of odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.
April 21, 2023
APR 21, mammalian wildlife: a peek at elephant seals
Reminiscence from a year ago (somehow this didn't get posted back then):
What we got to see at Año Nuevo State Park on our April '22 trip was a mass of seal pups, who had been heavily fed by their mothers and then abandoned on the beach, while the mothers swim out to sea as usual on their long and lonely migration. The pups spend a lot of time sleeping off their recent huge intake of food, and after a few months make their own way, eventually, into the sea where they somehow cope with doing their own life-adventure, learning to swim, hunt and eventually to relocate their home beach, all miraculously without guidance.
It would be great to return in late fall to see the older males, who weigh up to 5000 pounds, when they return for annual breeding.

You can review a whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !
April 20, 2023
APR 20, palinku (poetic novelty): London and Paris (Ontario)
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palinku |
(Ed. note:) Verses of this ilk have continued to proliferate, and there are now more than 50. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
April 19, 2023
* APR 19, curtained verse -- business agenda
reprise from 2020
APR 19, curtained verse: business agenda
April 18, 2023
APR 18, "pictures at a renovation": reconstruction begins
Yesterday, the project entered a new chapter in forward progress: At least in some rooms, the putting-together stage has begun. This started with the front hall and kitchen, applying levelling cement over the underlying concrete slabs in preparation for tiling in the kitchen and hardwood installation in the front hall. The den remains the site of intense removal of 'popcorn ceiling'.
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front hall (watch your step!) (wet levelling cement in place) |
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kitchen |
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LR/DR |
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LR, ready for some refinishing |
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den, ongoing intense ceiling restoration |
April 17, 2023
* APR 17, Ontario nostalgia -- across the Great Lakes
reprise from 2020
APR 17, Ontario nostalgia: across the Great Lakes
April 16, 2023
APR 16, "pictures at a renovation": demolition phase winds down
The dramatic part of the demolition phase is winding down...
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nd, check out the project-planning stage, elucidated in photos and verse, on March 19, and March 27.
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LR the floors throughout are now bare concrete |
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kitchen |
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the studio |
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exterior view |
April 15, 2023
* APR 15, the Charleston garden: Japanese yew
reprise from 2020
APR 15, the Charleston garden: Japanese yew
April 14, 2023
APR 14, photocollage: life returns to Toronto's 'Brickworks'
red-winged blackbirds (early season: wing-colour barely discerned) |
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turtles sunning on a floating island (exceptionally warm day) |
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