red poppies and tulips for Ruby Tuesday

While here in the east my red poppies are starting to open after being bathed in thewarm, sunny, sun each day. It has been a different experience for these red tulips shown below. It was a snow bathing they received on this weekend past at my brother Roger's place in Airdrie, Alberta.It is safe to say that I prefer living in the East. Great picture Roger. Lets hope you don't have the opportunity to take many more like it. (ie: snow!)





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Time Travelling Bus with Bill!

And the challenge was to think of a sentence, half it, throw away the second half then write as many different endings as you wanted, then ditch the first half and make the poem with the remains. I think.
Which led to my Britgeek poem. Keep going, it's down there somewhere.

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If I Were Dr Who I Would

Dream of my first home,
first faces;
forever knowing
you can never truly go back.

Take a millennium or two
to read everything ever written
in its own language.
To be inside a book
you must swallow its tongue.

Be there at the Big Bang,
although that begs the question,
be where at the Big Bang?

Gaze at galaxies’ formation:
the absolute beauty
of the zero of space.

Travel through time
and talk with kings,
then compare all they had said
with the queens.

Wonder why I always
look so bloody human,
when I am from quite another
place, if not time.
All time can be mine.

Definitely get the velvet jacket
off my third incarnation -
and the bouffant do too,
that was a bit of a classic.

Ponder why it is evil races,
always have evil names?

Have more casual sex…
have some casual sex.

But most of all, go back and get
lovely, loincloth Leela
the hell out
to make sure she never marries
that twat Richard Dawkins.

Oh no, that was Lalla Ward,
wasn’t it?
And she was Romana.
Or Romana II?
Didn’t wear leather,
didn’t carry a knife
and a Lady in real life.

I tell you what, it’d be easier
to be an old man again.
People expect your memory to go a bit.

Leela (Louise Jameson)

Lady Lalla Ward (Romana II)

A few yellow things for Mellow Yellow Monday

above, yellow pond lilies in a pond. please click to enlarge to enjoy its beauty more.

In the top photo we have a glimpse of the setting sun's rays at the end of a beautiful day.

I caught this Swallowtail butterfly just as it was pushing off from having been feeding on this lilac blossom. Below is a Rosy Maple Moth

which I found clinging on my house unnder our outdoor light by our doorstep yesterday morning.  I found 12 of them!. I was surprised at finding so msny at the one location.  We have  a few silver Maple trees and apparently that is their vegetation of choice.  The soft mellow yellon on this mot'h's head and under body make it a very attractive creature! as you can see from the pictures below. Having found 12 of them at my house I was not really surprised to find over 100 clinging on the public building across the street from our house.  I have seen many at this location before.  I guess its their season!

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Later...

Thunder, awe, fear or dumbstuck?

Full story after the Bus.

Wild Lily of the Valley Shadows for Shadow Shot Sunday

The Wild Lily of the Valley is a beautifully designed flower . Its many spikes with globes on their end create a delicately looking appearance.  Last week one day I purposely went looking for this wilflower to get some pictures of it.  Much to my delight I found one throwing its shadow upon a leaf. What a lovely find this was! A perfect shot for Shadow Shot Sunday I thought! 

 

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Tulip you don't normally see

I like tulips when they are in their buds. That's how posters, and photos depict tulips to be. But sadly, they expire and lose their youth and beauty.

That is why a person must not have beauty that is skin deep. I taught my students, that a person can be beautiful inside though they don't look beautiful outside. My kids assured me that I am both. LOL

Now There's Something You Don't See Every Day...

More later...

Camera Critters and Pet Pride - Tucker's Reflection

Three Tucker's or just one? Well, it's just one. I took this photo through my kitchen door window. The way the glass is set on the door it gives an illusion of three Tucker's. Tucker was outside on the porch looking up at me. Then I had the thought...Whew! What if I had three Tucker's? He's a handfull just by himself.

Did you ever wonder what if you had 3 of the same dog or cat? What would it be like?

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Ho Mok Talay

This is Ho Mok Talay, New Zealand style. This Thai dish traditionally steamed in banana leaf cups has now morphed in Auckland and comes piping hot and on fire. It is in the form of a burning aluminium foil bomb which we dub as our Mt Eden Volcano.

Inside this alumnium foil mount exterior is a mixture of chopped calamari, mussels, shrimp and crab meat, mixed in an egg custard and steamed. It is spicy and soothing at the same time. My daughter likes it and she says it is very close to her Singapore favourite sea food, the chilli crab.

For her sake, whenever we go to the Thai House in Ponsonby, she orders this dish. You can't see the fire because I forgot to take the photo when it first arrived on the table.

Looking at the full Moon!

If  you click on the picture above to enlarge it you might think you see two witches on their brooms flying across the night sky.  This is the sort of result you might get when you take pictures of the moon on a windy evening through trees with their leaves all in motion  You never know what you might see if you put your imagination to work.!!

Lilacs and swallowtail butterflies for CameraCritters

FRom swallows to swallowtail butterflies.  This is a moment I wait for each year as soon as our Lilacs come into bloom.I love to see the Swallowtail butterflies feeding on the Lilacs Also this year I have

seen Red Admiral butterflies feeding there.  How beautiful they all are, the Swallowtails and the Red Admirals.

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Sky Watch Friday - Water Fountain

This fountain is at Penn State, only a 15 min. drive from Bellefonte.

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Just A Bike Ride And Bluebells...

Having a spare couple of hours earlier in the week, we took the opportunity for a bike ride to the nearest bluebell woods. Which are less than half a mile away, but hey, the dog likes the speed. He runs, by the way, in case you thought he had his own bike or something.

The bluebells lie primarily on the right-hand side of the track down to Capenoch Nursery.Whilst the wild garlic lies on the left-hand side. Why is this, I wonder?

The Capenoch Estate is home to mighty Scottish oaks.

Some of which are hosts to Duvet Men, ancient Scottish tree sprites of sleep.

Then on to the river Scaur. There are salmon in the river, and elsewhere...





This is the Laundry, which is so called because it was the site of the Estate's laundry in its heydey.

A Milletts man of action, chancing a crossing, with a dog who doesn't like getting his paws wet.

Eyes that watch you.

And the rocks where the river gods play noughts and crosses in the dry times.Sometimes, just sometimes, it's not so bad living in the country.