Judith – Thanks! We see very few of the flowers in our winter sojourn. Most arrive after we leave. But I’m pretty sure I don’t want to brave their spring temps just to see more cactuses in bloom!
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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Apr 19
Video of the Week: “It was an ambush!”
Leeloo whups a bunch of armed and nasty aliens, unarmed and all by her own self.
The quote is at timestamp 1:43.
Poetry of the Week
On Tender Hooks
- by Brian Bilston
Let me cut to the cheese: every time you open your mouth, I’m on tender hooks.
You charge at the English language like a bowl in a china shop. Please nip it in the butt.
On the spurt of the moment, the phrases tumble out. It’s time you gave up the goat.
Curve your enthusiasm. Don’t give them free range. The chickens will come home to roast.
Now you are in high dungeon. You think me a damp squid: on your phrases I shouldn’t impose.
But they spread like wildflowers in a doggy-dog world, and your spear of influence grows.
Posted: 2025 Apr 20
Face Photos from Readers
Thanks to John Whitman for this slightly dismayed face from downtown Ottawa.
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Very nice Isabel. You did well not to blow out the reds, they often are. The detail is still there in them. Nice depth of field.
Jim – High praise indeed. It was over my head, or almost, with only the sky behind. Maybe that helped.
Makes me feel warm just to look at your photo! I think I’d like it hanging on my wall of my sewing room these cold January days.
Alison – Holler if you want a full-res (I might still have it!).
Cactus flowers are so lush, in great contrast to their dry environment – a celebration of life! Beautiful photo.
Judith – Thanks! We see very few of the flowers in our winter sojourn. Most arrive after we leave. But I’m pretty sure I don’t want to brave their spring temps just to see more cactuses in bloom!