JUL 29, 2026, exotic destination: LaBelle, Florida (swamp-cabbage festival)

photo courtesy of Uncommon Solutions

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You, members of the audience of Daily Illustrated Nonsense, (D.I.N.), often have questions about the authors of this blog, and the purpose, history and organization of our online e-manations. To help answer these puzzlements, we have scrawled some material on the undated PAGES section of this blog. Please review these 'documents', although some remain under development. Although expansion of these explanations is contemplated, we admit to taking our time to write down what seems natural to us, but more outreach with this type of communication is planned.

So far, you can take a look at these important documents :

1) Our Blog (D.I.N.): Authors and Purpose (under construction)

2) Content of the blog, and its Historical Development

3) Distribution of Thematic Material

4) How Can I Contribute? (under construction)

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JUL 27, 2026, holidays and celebrations: unicorny fifth birthday

  a) Reprise of material posted on July 27 in previous years

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 7 (wordplay map)
2021: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 19 (wordplay map)

2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 9 (wordplay map) 
2023: Carolina lowcountry, sundown at Shem Creek (photo-essay)

 Today's offering (July 27, 2026): 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 

You-Know-Who  (2-year reminiscence) !!!

JUL 25, 2026, submitted palindromes -- RANDOM PILES 55

 

 You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", a light literary entity. Owing to advancing age and other considerations, the frequency of outpouring, 30 posts per month for the first 60 months, has been reduced stepwise after December 2024 and now numbers 10 per month. But each month you can still find a collection of palindromic phrases proferred by our seven palindromic assistant editors.

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in a search bar at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.

Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.  

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JUL 23, 2026, photo-collage: talking heads ('lower' creatures), A to F

 This tongue-in-cheek collection is a followup to earlier blog-posts "Talking Heads, avian", and "Talking Heads, mammalian". All the photos were taken by G.C., using his i-phone camera. Most of the sites were in "the wild"; a minority of the photos were taken at zoos and aquariums. None of the subjects were reimbursed for participation. The present group of participants includes well-known personalities from the communities of reptiles, amphibians and fish.

Click HERE if you want to return to the beginning of the whole series.

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: alligator (juvenile), American toad, bearded dragon, broad-headed skink, burrfish, Carolina green anole, copperhead snake, five-lined skink, French angelfish.

alligator (juvenile)

American toad

bearded dragon (lizard)

broad-headed skink

burrfish

Carolina (green) anole

copperhead snake-- watch out !

five-lined (bluetailed) skink

French angelfish

If you enjoyed this foolish collection, you might want to proceed to another post featuring talking heads. 

Click here for 'other' talking heads G to Z. 

Click here if you would like to go back and review the whole series, starting with avian talking heads.

Readers who would like further information on the subjects, locales or technique of these photos are asked to leave a query in the Comments section. 

TODAY'S POEM  (senryu  *) 

optimistically

the octogenarian

cycles down the trail.

Giorgio Coniglio

 * learn more HERE about senryu, a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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JUL 23, 2026, postal places, Canada: Whistler, BC

Today's Offering (July 23, 2026):

poetry lyrics:/ Our publicist (city epistler)/  Posted jobs to consider in Whistler,/
 BC. "Work in pairs/ In restraining our bears;/ Or, alone, as a landscape de-thistler." 

 

Authors' Note: BC is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of British Columbia in which the resort-municipality of Whistler, permanent population 14,000, is located. Two million tourists visit Whistler annually for winter alpine sports, and for the summer pastimes of hiking and mountain biking.

Prior to European settlement, the site was the shared territory of the Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations. Trappers and prospectors were gradually attracted, but completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914 provided easy access from Vancouver, and brought logging and escalating tourism. The resort-city is named for the call of the hoary marmot, a ground squirrel dwelling at high elevations. The Whistler-Blackcomb area served as a major venue for "Vancouver 2010", the twenty-first Olympic Winter Games.

 

You can read more about the hoary marmot in another of our verses HERE.

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 !

 

JUL 21, 2026. selected pics: ruddy turnstones

ruddy turnstone in flight (background subtracted image)

ruddy turnstone (flying over beach with oyster shells)

Authors' Note:  Ruddy turnstones, sparrow-sized shorebirds, despite their tiny size, are intrepid and accomplished migrators, with a rigorous annual pole-to-pole itinerary. For a few years now, I have seen them in late May on the same small strip of beach near a harborside boardwalk in the Carolina lowcountry. They seem consumed, when there in groups of a dozen or so, not with global travel issues, but rather with mundane considerations such as which individual can claim rights to a small hole dug in the sand.

You can review an illustrated poem about these shorebirds in general HERE, and one about ruddy turnstones in particular HERE.

JUL 19, 2026, waterfowl: roseate spoonbills

Today's offering (Jul 19, 2026): 

Poetry lyrics:/ The roseate spoonbill's aware/ That he's growing exceedingly rare./ 
He dines, scooping the pluff mud -- / There's more than enough mud,/ And he always seems
 eager to share./ Still, his fate is a source of despair.   

Readers who are not familiar with the term 'pluff mud' should check out another of our illustrated verses HERE.

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

JUL 17, 2026, mammalian wildlife: gerbils

Authors' Note:

Honest Herb(ie), a westponder, concedes that pronouncing the herbal 'H' in Britain and Australia may be the norm there, but he prefers the more common North American way to say it with the 'H' silent, as in 'hour', and 'honest'.  In fact, language detectives may correctly intuit that Herb is a Canadian, as he spells offence with a 'c', rather than the 's' used by Americans.

The Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus, a hardy small herbivorous rodent has become a popular pet. Originally a resident of Asia transported for use as a research subject, it was introduced from the US to the UK in 1964; its pronunciation preferences currently remain unrecorded.

Check out this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_gerbil

You can review the 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 !

JUL 15, 2026, artistic leanings (5 senryu verses inspired by current activities)

   

 TODAY'S POEMS (17-syll. senryu *) 

 

 

"Vitruvian Man", drawing, 1490 

 

ideal proportion --

Da Vinci defined man's form

with square and circle.

Giorgio Coniglio

"Yesterday", film, 2019

time-spliced universe --

rock wannabe "reinvents"

 all the Beatles' songs.

Giorgio Coniglio

"Patience", dramatic television series, 2025

Patience, police clerk,

gifted autistic savant

unravels the clues.

Giorgio Coniglio

Ukulele-jam, suboptimal venue

ukulele jams

in unused church basements --

taverns sound better.

 Giorgio Coniglio 

 Bedtime reading

 

learning Japanese?

onerous undertaking -- 

deep admiration.

Giorgio Coniglio

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JUL 13, 2026, selected pics: dabbling waterfowl

TODAY'S POEM ('senryu' *)

 

the peculiar apparent orange-red colour
 of the 'pond' is a reflection from 
an orangey freighter behind the mute swan.

"dabbling" -- upended

ducks, swans, geese and poets probe 

beneath the surface.

Giorgio Coniglio

 

* learn more HERE about "senryu", a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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JUL 11, 2026, poetic non-sequitur: changes in latitude

Authors' Note: The 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett contained a song of the same title, as well as his most popular hit "Margaritaville".

With holiday season travel plans, and snowbirds' escapes to more appealing climes disrupted by the severe December weather in the winter of 2022, J.B.'s advice has more relevance. And the authors express gratitude to their female partner who has made arrangements for the appropriate seasonal migration.

Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.

JUL 9, 2026, Carolina lowcountry: birding map of Mt. Pleasant SC

Many of the illustrated verses about these birds as observed and photographed in these locales can be reviewed on our earlier posts. 

JUL 7c, 2026, Japan reminiscence: yukata (limerick)

 YUKATA

Wear the Japanese loungeware -- yukata

Paired with obi and geta, you oughtta.

Where? onsen or buffet, 

Family stroll, summer's day,

Suiting you, or your son and your daughter.

Giorgio Coniglio

Interested readers can find daily blogposts related to a recent month's tour of Japan starting with March 9, 2025 -- "arrival in Tokyo" 

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JUL 5, 2026, selected pics: crepe myrtles

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

 

late June's sultry heat

convinces coy crepe myrtles

to show vivid blooms.

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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