reprise from June 2020
You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!
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.
reprise from June 2020
You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!
Authors' Note: It's hard to believe that there was a 'responsible driver' who let this young person out of the car to take this picture (isolated from a published video), but there you are.
In national parks in both Canada and the United States, there are fines imposed for approaching wildlife too closely, and signage usually makes this abundantly clear.
A verse, and more pictures of the American bison (buffalo), can be found on this post.
Authors' Note: A number of religions tell of an epic battle staged in Heaven involving an army of angels that resulted in the casting out of Satan (or equivalent) and his followers. The governance, duties, activities and whereabouts of the Heavenly Host in the ensuing epoch is seldom mentioned.
The author apologizes for any apparent error in his account, but points out that he is a true disbeliever.
'Friendship Archway', Chinatown gate, world's largest paifang |
Union Station |
Columbus Circle |
typical DC row houses |
statue of Nathanael Greene, Revolutionary War general. Stanton Park, Washington NE. |
"Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece" Henry Moore, National Gallery of Art |
on the steps of SCOTUS |
congressional selfie |
at the United States Botanic Garden (what a conservatory!) |
spokesperson for the Capitol Hill Squirrel Lobby |
a) reprise from 2020