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Raining Fish?
The ‘Raining Cats and Dogs’ * I know, but fish? This day, a total of nine fish in a span of 3 meters. They are dropped from the air members of the flocks of Great Cormorants that pass through each spring on their way to somewhere else. They are large, shades of black and bigger …
That’s Tall
These tulips are 50 centimeters from top to stem bottom.That is almost 20 inches. They are graceful in their length. All aspects of the flower is streamlined, including the leaves:
Do-eee
This is what one woman says to another when taking leave. What makes it unique, the tonal quality is an octave higher than normal speech. Men do not say this. I asked my new friends and no one had given it notice; only an outsider would hear it. Maybe there is a secret meaning? I …
The Museum Card
This has to be the ‘buy of …” you fill in the blank. Payment of an annual subscription fee and one has access to all of the museums in the country and a host of other attractions. After payment, the mail brings a plastic credit card sized identification complete with your picture in the corner. …
Tulips
There are certain things of which one can never have enough. Me? spring tulips! Yesterday was a bench mark, 5 bunches at one go. Apparently the farmers are stymied in export, so they have made a deal with the grocery stores to offer them at likely wholesale price. It certainly is a positive effort to …
UPdate
You remember the multi-tiered story of the visit to this museum. Reader E, sent pictures of small, smart handbags, and I was going to ask the museum if there was interest for their collection. But alas, as you see from the link above, the end is in sight. Will they be auctioned off? Hopefully not …
Reader H sent this:
too funny not to share!
The Bears in the Window
Some one devised a game for the parents or children with parents who are out and about in this time of no-school-please-stay-at-home. The game is ‘Find the bears in the windows”. When you put a bear in the window, you register it with the Bear in the Window website stating where it is to be …
Unnoticed
Biked pass/under these two arrows a number of times. Never saw them. A walking friend brought them to my attention. One points toward a ‘city center route’ the other toward the ‘country-side’ take the latter with a grain of salt. Whatever these mean? No idea. Not a walker