I knew that swans mate for life but I recently learned that also geese – particularly Canada geese – pick a mate and stay together (unlike ducks who are serial monogamists). “Little by little, living together, two people fall into a sort of unison, they … Continue reading Goose Hokey Pokey
Buttons used to be the thing. Today … not so much (Nö!).
Interesting aside (interesting for people interested in language, that is): Button is “Knopf” in German but these buttons are called … drumroll … “Buttons”.
It wasn’t exactly a home movie, it was the film project of a drama student in 1981. We used to shoot our films in Super 8 and they looked like home movies most of the time. I remember I did a stop-motion something, foreshadowing my experiments with minikins, but of so little note that even I don’t remember much about it let alone have a copy.
I do remember more about the project of a fellow student in which I had a minor part. I played the unfaithful girlfriend of a young soldier, discovered in bed with the new conquest. Since we didn’t have sound the situation was conveyed by having a picture of me and the boyfriend on the nightstand prominently displayed. That’s the photo above.
PS: I just realised that I have used this photo before explaining a bit more about the “movie”: https://picturesimperfectblog.com/2023/03/19/not-quite-a-slasher-movie/
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Home Movie
It’s a day of note today. Our granddaughter turns eight. She used to be a baby.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Noteworthy
What has this photo to do with wind, you might ask. Look at it enlarged below:
Or like that:
Taken where the Coghinas river flows into the sea in the north of Sardinia.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Windblown
No that’s not a rice paddy. It’s a mealie field (maize, corn), freshly planted, after a particularly heavy downpour.
Life is hard and then you die. He’s carrying the world upon his shoulders. Even amidst all this beauty. But the stoop hasn’t come naturally, it’s the result of many, many, many hours of training. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Stoop
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