a mud-laden painted turtle |
A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
May 5, 2023
MAY 5, (excursions): meanwhile, back in the great outdoors ...
May 4, 2023
MAY 4, homophonous verse: (hippo's) hip replacement
Author's Note: Hip replacement has become a surgical procedure that is frequently performed in humans, and is making inroads into veterinary practice in dogs and cats. Its role in jungle creatures and zoo inhabitants remains to be developed, parenthetically.
You can review verses on this topic in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE.
May 3, 2023
MAY 3, "pictures at a renovation": third week
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
hall towards LR |
LR (stack of wallboard) |
kitchen |
den entrance |
new office space |
studio (stack of flooring) |
May 2, 2023
May 1, 2023
MAY 1, pandemic reminiscence / HB to me
a) reprise from 2020
April 30, 2023
APR 30, American satire (prolongation): criminal lying
April 29, 2023
APR 29, exemplification: hillbilly
April 28, 2023
APR 28, defining opinion: cruddy
Authors' Note: Trudy's definition seems to be skewed towards the achievement of cruddiness, downplaying inherent or intrinsic cruddiness. We await further reports.
April 27, 2023
APR 27, palinku (poetic novelty): London and Paris (Ontario)
palinku |
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 26, 2023
APR 26, "pictures at a renovation": the second week
PREVIOUS VIEWS:
front hall |
kitchen |
LR |
DR |
den |
master bath (shower construction underway) |
April 25, 2023
APR 25, Carolina lowcountry: spring excursions
a) reprise from 2020
APR 25, Carolina lowcountry: further spring excursions
mallard drake |
mute swan, Middleton Place |
a green anole; one of E.T.'s relations? |
cycling under Spanish moss |
April 24, 2023
APR 24, urban concerns: aged street tree
April 23, 2023
APR 23, new world palindromes (#15,#16)
a) reprise from 2020
APR 23, new world palindromes (#15,#16)
b) Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials
April 22, 2023
APR 22, poetic 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 (2023), singable satire: Elton John sings "DANTE's SONG" (Inferno, Canto 1a)
PARODY-LYRICS
"Dark Wood" detail of Dore engraving |
Dante nella Selva W.Blake |
April 19, 2023
APR 19, curtained verse -- business agenda
a) reprise from 2020
APR 19, curtained verse: business agenda