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Monday, August 17, 2026

El curioso color del colorado

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Top left Rosa 'Darcey Bussell' - right Rosa 'Emily Carr' & below Rosa 'Gabriel Oak' 17 August 2026   One of my...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

An Ecdysiast Reunion

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Topaz (Miss Mew to me)   In a few days, I will be going to an ecdysiast (look it up) reunion that will probably be the last one. It will be ...
Friday, August 14, 2026

And was always a rose

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Rosa 'Sombreuil' 13 August 2026   The Rose Family – Robert Frost – 1928 The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the th...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

From My Now Gone Colour Darkroom

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  The terms analog photograpy or capturing a photograph are not in my vocabulary. There seems to be a renaissance in analog (using film with...

Shaving the Barber

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Sketch by Eduardo Bettencourt   "Who shaves the barber" is not a word with a traditional linguistic etymology; it is a famous logi...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

On The Fritz

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Rosa 'Gabriel Oak' - 12 August 2026   All I could find out about the expression “on the fritz” is that it appeared in use in the U...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

A Face

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Lisa Milroy   I have been writing Ad infintum about my terrific newish 28-inch wide Acer monitor. I am able to see all the little pictures ...
Monday, August 10, 2026

A Poet & a Rose

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Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad' 10 August 2026   Peter Trower With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt...

Two Essences

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Portia Winters - & left Colleen Hughes   In 1962 after two years of studying philosophy at Mexico City College with Catalonian philosoph...