APR 19, postal places, Canada: Paris, ON

a) Reprise of material posted on April 19 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #17,18 (wordplay maps)
2021: etymology, dog (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, Deceit, social (poem)
2023: American satire, obstruction of justice (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: 

fini (fee-NEE): occasionally used French loanword to emphatically indicate 'finished'

ON is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Ontario, in which the town of Paris, (population in 2024 of 15,000), is situated on the Grand River 110 km (70 miles) west of Toronto.

 

Gypsum, a partly hydrated sulphate salt of calcium, is used after pulverizing to form rigid structures that set on wetting. Plaster of Paris, a prized form of gypsum, originally found in deposits in France, has been widely used in surgical casts for broken bones. 

Paris, with its preserved Victorian architecture, was flagged as "Canada's prettiest town" by an international travel magazine. The town's name presumably derives from development of the townsite, in the mid-nineteenth century, to exploit the nearby gypsum deposits, not from involvement of French-speaking settlers nor any other French connection.

Francophones, comprising 5% of the province's total population, make up the majority of inhabitants of a few small towns in other regions of Ontario; surprisingly, some of these places have unequivocally Anglophone names including Hearst, Hawkesbury, and Moonbeam.

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APR 18, photo-collage: this week's Carolina lowcountry miscellany

a) Reprise of material posted on April 18 in previous years ...

2020: magic canal palindrome, A man, a plan .. Paris (wordplay)

2021: to clot, or not, clotting factor deficiencies (poem)
2022: excursions, further afield, SC (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, pics (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 18, 2024): 

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)

jellyfish, recently washed ashore,
Sullivan's Island, SC

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

Editor's Note: More photos on this topic can be found on a later posting HERE.

APR 17, palinku (poetic novety): diapers

a) Reprise of material posted on April 17 in previous years ...

2020: haiku, continued, nuclear cardiology (poems)
2021: palinku, canals (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Paris, France and Ontario (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, London, UK and Ontario (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 17, 2024): 

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APR 16, Greek philosophers: Plato

a) Reprise of material posted on April 16 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindrome, Do geese see God? (poem)
2021: insects, termites (illustrated poem) 
2022: funny bones, pelvic fractures (poem)
2023: condo reno, winding down (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 16, 2024): 

 further edification 

web-photo
Plato (portrait bust)
sculptor: Silanion 370 B.C.E.

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APR 15, classic palindrome: 'no lemon, no melon'

 a) Reprise of material posted on April 15 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, Japanese yew (illustrated poem)
2021: new world palindromes, #38 (wordplay map) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, pluff mud (illustrated poem)
2023: word-pairs, alliterative binomials, U (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 15, 2024):

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APR 14, ambulatory verse: lurk (ambulation lacking)

a) Reprise of material posted on April 14 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 5,6 (wordplay)
2021: Panama palindrome spoof, A man, a potato ...  (wordplay) 
2022: mythed opportunities, prophet Elijah (poem)
2023: inns and outs, INN-complete (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 14, 2024): 

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APR 13, waterfowl-in-flight 2

a) Reprise of material posted on April 13 in previous years ...

2020: geysers, second-hand geyser (poem)
2021: poems of nuclear medicine, SPECTiloquy (poem)

2022: mammalian wildlife: resurgent sea-otters (photo-collage)
2023: patients and maladies, aldosterone excess (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 13, 2024):

APR 12, folio-entry, couples: Canada geese

 

 a) Review of material posted on April 12 in previous years ...

2020: patients and maladies, common cold (poem)
2021: portraits of couples, gemsboks (photo folio) 

2022: portraits of couples, sanderlings (photo folio)
2023: portraits of couples, Canada goose family (photo folio)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 12, 2024): 

 

 

To learn more about these birds, you might want to review our posts "illustrated verse: Canada geese",  and "photo-collage: Canada geese". 

You can view these samples from our portfolio of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. 

APR 11, spineless verse (invertebrates): dance of the jellyfish

a) Review of material posted on April 11 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, snowy egrets (illustrated poem)
2021: Palindrome Valley, duplicitous signpost (illustrated poem) 
2022: exotic destination, Fort Ord Nat'l Monument (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, day #6 pics (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 11, 2024):

moon jellyfish

lion's mane jellyfish

TODAY'S POEM  (senryu  *)

beautifully mobile,

aquarium's jellyfish

lack eyes, brain and heart.

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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APR 10, to clot, or not: Virchow's triad

a) Reprise of material posted on April 10 in previous years ...

2020: wordplay, Claire's celerity (illustrated poem  - 'brief saga'))
2021: gun control, bipolar illness (illustrated poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: classic languages, Anglo-Latin and -Greek (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: hellenophilia, Dodecanese Islands, (illustrated poem - 'brief saga')

b) Today's Offering (Apr 10, 2024): 

Authors' Note:  

stasis: an absence of flow, or markedly reduced flow

deep venous thrombosis (DVT): a condition in which clots form in the deep veins, usually of the calves; the disorder often produces symptoms, but may be silent

The above verse conjures studies of factors in causation of DVT more than a century ago by Rudolf Virchow (FEER-koh), the famed German pathologist, that eventually resulted in the concept 'Virchow's triad'. The modern triad includes the elements of venous stasis, increased coagulability of the blood, and damage to the local endothelium (lining of the blood vessels). 

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