Monday Portrait
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Not a stool pigeon
Stripey bee-hinds
When I saw Aino’s panel for today’s Värikollaasit I immediately thought of the back of a bee’s body (another chance to use the word “gaster”!). The stripes are often so well defined and in the right kinds of brown. Add aubergine coloured flowers (or close to aubergine coloured) and the colour collage almost put itself together.
Decoy
He sits in arguably the most beautiful spot of Crete, overlooking the Venetian harbour of Chania, and grips a fishing rod. I’m not convinced that he actually wants to catch anything. I think he just likes the excuse of sitting there.
Food for … what?
For the life of me I don’t know why this pizzeria takes its name from this comical duo but it does and the deco is totally directed towards the two (no, it’s not called Laurel & Hardy, the German name of the two has always been “Dick und Doof”, Fat and Stupid).
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Raise a white sail
Thanks for the title to Cowboy Junkies and their song by Michael Edward Timmins.
White sails can be important! I’m just reading old Greek myths again. Theseus neglectedto raise a white sail and so his father Aegeus. who awaited his return, thought he was dead and he threw himself from a high rock into the sea, henceforth known as the Aegean. All but for a white sail. Nobody knew how to use a washing machine or what?!
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Your guess is as good as mine
if it weren’t for my tags. 1 Budgy in flight. 2 Adolescent fly agaric spots, real close.. 3 Sunflowery curlicues. 4 Golden pollen on a white and purple blade of fall of an iris. 5 The back of a head of a helmeted guinea fowl. … Continue reading Your guess is as good as mine
One day, the sun was going to eat the moon
What does an exclipse look from a spacecraft close to another planet, I wonder. In any case, the onlookers were very happy that it all ended well. I realised that we came woefully unprepared – no chairs, no bubbly, no finger foods … but at … Continue reading One day, the sun was going to eat the moon
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