* SEP 30, insects -- yellow jackets

 

reprise from September 2020

SEP 30, insects: yellow jackets

Authors' Note: A million Emergency Room (ER) visits per year in the United States are caused by concern over stings from insects of the order Hymenoptera; stings can result in significant local reactions and even anaphylaxis. Many people attribute these incidents, without differentiation, to 'bees'. In fact, the common honeybees and bumblebees are considerably less aggressive than yellow jackets, such as Vespula maculifrons; these pesty wasps make us miserable in the summer and early fall, particularly at fairs and other outdoor events, by their relentless search for sugar-containing foods. Vespine is the adjective relating to wasps.

 

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

SEP 29, postal places, Canada: Antigonish, NS

 

Authors' Note: NS is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in which the town of Antigonish, population 4,700, is located on the shore of Northumberland Strait, a source of excellent local seafood.

Based on an aboriginal Mi'kmak name, the town was founded in 1784 by a land grant from the British crown. It is now the home of the annual Antigonish Highland Games, and of Sir Francis Xavier University, highly reputed on a national level for undergraduate teaching.

 At one swell foop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

SEP 28, decorative touches D

Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 21, 2023. 

Ontario lakeland scene:

                                                                          fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

SEP 27, birdlore: pigeon-porn (billing and cooing)

EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to view this post!

Those readers with a prurient interest in pigeons can find more photos by checking out our later post of October 2. Click HERE.  

* SEP 26, Toronto oases -- Humber Bay park

reprise from September 26, 2020

SEP 26, Toronto oases: Humber Bay

You can review the entire series of illustrated poems about  the good old days in Ontario by checking the post 'Ontario Nostalgia' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

SEP 25, objectionable adjectives: forced (bulbs)

You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight poems) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.

SEP 24, decorative touches C

Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 21, 2023. 

California scene:

                                                                 fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

** SEP 24, trees: sago palms

 

reprise from September 2021

SEP 24, trees: sago palms

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

SEP 23, signs of confusion: fifth collection

This post is the fifth in a series. You can attempt to get all of this straight by reviewing the collections in the previous posts ...

signs of confusion #4
signs of confusion #3
signs of confusion #2
signs of confusion #1

Buddhist monks in South America?

 Siiiigns of confusiion?

TO SEE MORE STUFF: To see older or newer material  (posted daily, or at least on most 'good' days), CLICK below the Comments Section, on 'Older Post' or 'Newer Post'.

* SEP 22, Toronto ravines --- Riverdale Farm photocollages

 

 reprise from September 2020

SEP 22, Toronto ravines: Riverdale Farm, photocollages #1-#2

 If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.

SEP 20, decorative touches B

Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches" (fabric artwork), September 21, 2023. 

Night view: Cooper River Bridge

                                                                         fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

For a comparison of modalities you might want to see the post of July 29,  "Photo-Study of the Cooper River Bridge"

SEP 19, waterfowl: great egrets at a Toronto pond

Not too bad for cell-phone photos, eh?

(A few selected still pics will be posted in a month or so.) 

* SEP 18, savoir-faire --- corniches (Nice)

 

reprise from September 2020

SEP 18, savoir-faire: corniches (Nice)

  You can review verses on this topic in a wider context on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Check the post 'Vers Francais: Savoir-Faire' by clicking HERE. 

If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)

SEP 17, mammalian wildlife: verses about gnus

DOGGEREL-WRITING

A doggerel-writer, a keener,

By mean peers was judged coarse and obscener:

("From this site, you are banished!")

Wrote some winners, then vanished —

He'd committed a gross misdemeanour.

Here's our hope: We'll now cope, much serener.

Dr G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2023

Authors' Note:  We are talking here about an open-forum collaborative website, so  the reader will realize that there are only a few opportunities for misdemeanourship. A major one was apparently undertaken by the prolific writer in question, but he did leave behind some great five-liners, including this author's favorite — (originally published under the title 'depressing'). 

WORKING AT ZOOS

The work is depressing at zoos,
So I often go home with the blues.
And it's getting more bleak;
For example, last week,
We received really terrible gnus.

 Workshop

* SEP 16, brief saga -- Gino's food intolerance

 

reprise from 2020

SEP 16, a brief saga: food intolerance 

View these verses in a wider context by proceeding to our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense' and our post on "Food Intolerance".

For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other  astuff that we offer.    

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (October 2020), proceed to 'Cyclades'.

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (August 2020), back up to 'the Aegean cat'.

SEP 15, synonymous verse: Donald Duck's hooey

Authors' Note: The term malarkey for "nonsense"  is likely of Greek origin, but does not appear to related to mallard ducks.

To review our whole collection of "synonymous verses", click HERE. 

 

* SEP 14, Toronto ravines --- 'Brickworks' photocollages

reprise from 2020

SEP 14, Toronto ravines: Brickworks photocollages #1-#3

If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)

SEP 13, pill-poppin' poem: simethicone for abdominal bloating

Authors' Note: Simethicone (simeticone), a silicon-based product, is the active ingredient in most current over-the-counter remedies to relieve abdominal distension and gaseous bloating. With coalescence of the offending small bubbles, the gas is dispersed by flatulence and belching.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

SEP 12, "pictures at a renovation": finishing touches A

  PREVIOUS VIEWS:

You can journey back through the whole arduous undertaking by scrolling back through our earlier posts (you can also click these dates for direct transport back to see the previous views). 

June 13: reconstrucion phase

May 31: reconstruction phase

May 25: reconstruction phase

May 7: reconstruction phase

May 3: reconstruction phase

April 26: reconstruction phase

April 18: reconstruction phase

See earlier posts for the planning and demolition phases! 

SEP 11, patients and their maladies: hives (urticaria)

 

Authors' Note: Hives, known medically as urticaria, is a symptomatic skin condition attributed to the release of the immune mediator histamine, and manifesting at some point in up to 20% of people. Allergy is a common underlying instigator, with drug reactions being causative in some cases. The onset, with progressive randomly distributed spread of batches of reddish raised lesions, is often acute, but the condition may be repetitive and "chronic", as is the case with Eve's experience.

Formulation of the above poem required the use of binomial phrases, as indicated by italics.

Be sure to check out the whole collection of verses on 'Patients and their Maladies" by proceeding to our full-service blog, "Edifying Nonsense." CLICK HERE ! 

* SEP 10, waterfowl -- gallinules

 

reprise from 2020

SEP 10, waterfowl: gallinules

 You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. 

If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)