Wednesday, 15 July 2026
I braved the humidity shortly after 8am to whack back the worst of the vegetation in the back yard. While I was busy, I kept thinking: what is Spanish for vine? And weeds?
I never came up with the words. Now, GooTranslate indicates vines and weeds = enredaderas y malezas. I might have encountered malezas in a publication or two, but I have no recollection of seeing enredaderas.
BTW, pinos y encinos = pines and oaks. Those two I learned!
Friday, 29 May 2026
Sipping my coffee and looking out the window, I saw the low-angle morning sun gloriously illuminating the birchbark, aka birch bark.
Monday, 26 January 2026
I wanted to look at the snowflake emoji close up. While researching, I found out this is the Apple snowflake, not The Other Kind. I like that it’s off axis and not exactly aligned up-down, and side-to-side.
A long time ago, I looked at a few snowflakes close up. This is not what they looked like…not delicate enough. But it works great displayed in my texting app.
Saturday, 6 December 2025
Fast and _what_?
This was a manufacturer display we saw at a Meijer. This misspelling was on two of the four shelves.
Friday, 28 November 2025
I once heard a tri-lingual knock-knock joke, but this only takes two languages. “Soy” in Spanish means “I am.” I, of course, read soy as soybean, as TJ’s intended. The Guru saw Spanish “soy” to go with the Spanish name of a particular sausage, and pointed it out to me. I’m still giggling.
Monday, 10 November 2025
The leaves are down across our lawn, making the equivalent of a (down) duvet keeping the ground from freezing as the temps head for brrrrrr. However, we’re not expecting the White Stuff that’s been falling in the Midwest and even in the mountains down here.
Too forced and artificial?
Thursday, 16 October 2025
I had this with my coffee and thought, gee whiz, there’s something to post here. Perhaps. [Mitad means half in Spanish.]
But, this is better. We began a new series of evening TV watching. We sometimes use our choices to be a kind of travelogue, or travel abroad that doesn’t require a passport. This choice is “Hotel Costiera,” set in Positano, on the southern Amalfi Coast. So far, there’s not much food in it; drinks, yes, but little chow. [Not ciao.] Pleasant. Entertaining. Mostly in English.
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Backlit leaves, aglow.
Ferns and ramps (wide angle).
Siberian apple; polinator tree, not for eating. More of the apple trees are blooming.
Backlit pear, sure to be heavy with fruit.
The woods, an hour after the backlit pear, so the opposite direction,. The opposite word/phrase—is it fully-lit?
