A while back I recall a conversation in comments where rq mentioned that the trees dance when no-one is looking. Well, for this Tree Tuesday Lofty has found a tree that’s dancing when everyone is looking. Lofty says,
Another Eucalypt from my favourite bicycle riding area, it’s “doing the twist”!
That it is, Lofty. What a marvelous tree. Thanks for sharing.
Twistree ©Lofty, all rights reserved
Yesterday we watched a tiny bird hatch and start to eat. Well, what goes in must come out so today I present the other end of the story. I’ll bet you can’t watch without smiling.
The finalists of the 2018 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are out, and they’re a blast. Here’s a couple of my favourites:
© Achim Sterna/The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2018
© Mary McGowan/The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2018
© Roie Galitz/The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2018
© Kallol Mukherjee/The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2018
And lots more…
Today’s piece of music is more of a dance showcase, in the theme of colourful animals. Below the fold because spiders.
Courtesy of rq whose clever title belies the truth. The photo is actually sunlight seen through beer. What a rich, warm, wet photo. Brilliant. Thanks for sharing rq.
Extraterrestrial Scenery (actually, sunlight through beer), ©rq, all rights reserved
Weighty things on his mind today, ©voyager, all rights reserved
Jack did a lot of swimming at the beach today. Usually he’ll go after a stick a few times and after that he prefers to just paddle around close to shore. Today, though, he couldn’t get enough. Again and again he wanted us to throw out a stick for him to bring back. He kept it up for close to half an hour which is a lot of exercise for a 10 year old puppy. By the time we got home he was totally exhausted. He followed me into the bathroom, laid himself down and proceeded to sleep for the next 2 hours just as you see him here.
Yesterday I took the kids grocery shopping and found this:
I have no words
David in New Zealand has recently been to the Adelaide Zoo and he’s sent us some very adorable Giant Panda pictures. David says:
This is Funi, one of the two Giant Pandas we have. They’re on loan from China as part of the breeding programme, but so far, no cubs. Wang Wang (yes, he’s the boy!) was hiding, but Funi seemed quite comfortable sleeping here. I have had days like that, but I didn’t always choose to sleep on the rocks.
Well, that does look like a heavy head to hold up. Thanks David.
©David Brindley, all rights reserved
©David Brindley, all rights reserved
©David Brindley, all rights reserved
Wonderful photos and a tongue in cheek title from Nightjar, who says,
Prompted by Charly’s post “Itsy Bitsy Spider (Not)”, here is a really itsy bitsy spider I found on one of my zinnia flowers. Not bigger than a typical ant, I only spotted it because it is totally not camouflaged.
Nope. Definitely not camouflaged, but certainly very, very small. Good eye, Nightjar. Thanks for sharing.(click for full size)
A tiny Crab Spider on a Zinnia, ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
Tiny Crab Spider, ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
Naughty boy, ©voyager, all rights reserved
So, I’m trying to focus my camera when I see this. … Jack, no, stop, don’t pee on plants! Naughty boy!
I wish I could show you the grin he gave me when he turned around, but I was kerfuffled in the moment. It’s his way of telling me that I’m taking too long with my camera. Well, message received, Jack. Lets go home.
Trophies cartoon. France wins the World Cup in Moscow, Djokovic wins Wimbledon, and Putin wins over Trump in Helsinki. Image / Rod Emmerson. Source.
I think that pretty much sums it all up.
After the ever idiotic Tiny Tyrant declared the EU to be the greatest foe of Amerikka, Merriam Webster jumped in with an excellent troll:
📈To everyone looking it up: yes, ‘foe’ still means what you think it means. https://t.co/Bq1oqTkXqq
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 15, 2018
Let’s have a look at that full definition, shall we:
Definition of foe
1: one who has personal enmity for another
<Embrace, embrace, my Sons! be foes no more! —Alexander Pope>
2 a: an enemy in war b: adversary, opponent: a political foe
3: one who opposes on principle: a foe of needless expenditures, a foe of censorship
4: something prejudicial or injurious
Examples of foe in a Sentence:
Many considered him a foe of democracy.
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Good one, Merriam & Webster! The tweet is here, the full definition here.
For the person who ended up here searching for “fuck for brains anglicanum coitibus”, it helps to have your terminology correct. I have posted about Opus Anglicanum, which is a type and class of embroidery. What you’re looking for is Anglicanorum coitibus. Oh, the difference a couple of letters make. There’s a wiki about Personal Ordinariates and the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of 4 November 2009 and its complementary norms. Now you can try a search with the right term. Best of luck, and I hope the irony of “fuck for brains” didn’t hit you too hard.
