Musings

One or two words?

Sipping my coffee and looking out the window, I saw the low-angle morning sun gloriously illuminating the birchbark, aka birch bark.

Arty enlargement

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.

Sheesh

Fast and _what_?

This was a manufacturer display we saw at a Meijer. This misspelling was on two of the four shelves.

Language alignment

Soy chorizo

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.

Theme: down

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?

Translation day

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.

Is that Barbie pink?

A fleur is a flower is a flor.

Lighting, blooming, more

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?

Don’t be fooled

Fleur blanc

Fleur blanc is not beurre blanc.

What’s hue opinion?

Blue-purple? Purple-blue? Or perhaps just a shade of blue?