These pictures are from a few years back.
Needless to say that when I stepped out of the house that day I was sure that I wouldn’t go to work that day, I didn’t want to go to work that day.
But the neighbours were out and starting to clear the snow. And I had help.
Within less than an hour, most of us had freed their cars and were on their way. I was off to work, albeit a bit late. As debilitating the snow was, it didn’t disable us completely.
The heron is not flying into a storm but into uncertainty. Will there be sunshine? Will there be clouds? Or a storm, after all?
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Freedom
and harking back to an rdp last July: Free
Wikipedia knows that “A skookum is a variety of mountain giant or monster similar to the Sasquatch or Bigfoot.” Mhm… I am wondering. Would the Gruffalo qualify as a skookum if he was seen wandering around in the Northwestern United States? He certainly is fierce, strong, and powerful, and has terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth and terrible jaws!
When I read the rdp for today, I saw what I always see in my mind’s eye when I hear the word: the cameo performance by Robin Williams and Billy Crystal in “Friends“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMlgKUQaQ4 – at around 1:15. I will never ever read or hear the word “oozing” without hearing it in Robin Williams’ voice. “Maybe it’s my wound, it’s still oooooozing.”
However, oozing wounds do not a pretty picture make. So I’ve opted for showing off Johnny , the neighbour’s cat, instead. He is oozing with confidence!
Getting married. A possible folly.
Getting married at 20. A probable folly.
Getting married after being together for six weeks. A definite folly.
Yet here we are.
Thanks to Anita from RDP I learned a new word today: crepidate. Since it is a word describing a sound it is not surprising that I did not immediately have a photo at hand to respond. I am grateful for Anita’s explanation but I had to look the word up in other sources, switching from English to German and found that the German variant is mainly used in a medical context, i.e. the sound bones make after a break when the two surfaces rub against each other (ouch!!!). Then I found this on the English wikipedia site:
“Crepitation refers to situations where noises are produced by the rubbing of parts one against the other, as in:
Grashoppers! That’s the route I wanted to take and although I was sure that I had a grashopper in my archive somewhere I couldn’t find one. Bummer.
So I went with the second definition: “Rales or crackles, abnormal sounds heard over the lungs with a stethoscope”.
Stethoscope I can do. This particular doctor might hear the crepitation in his own lungs, the way he carries it.
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