My tapestry has many unknotted threads. It's overdue to clear my cache.
After a trip to California, where there were groves of trees that provide so much of our food even this far away that were growing in near desert conditions. This article gives the perspective of this that took me a drive through the San Joaquin Valley to realize.
Did you know that the stories Frankenstein and Vampyre were both created in a villa in Switzerland in 1816, the year that was called "the year without summer". This was due to the volcanic eruption called Mount Tambora in Indonesia the year before. Lord Byron rented the villa, and was visited by friends that included Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin(to be Shelley).
I saw this fish on a sunny day paddle boarding along the St. Laurence "Lac St Louis". It was a thrill compounded by seeing a Kingfisher on the same trip, and the fact that I didn't fall down (or stand up!)
I have spend many hours exploring the art and architecture of the metro system, and I was surprised to see a concrete design in the De L'Eglise station attributed this artist I knew well from pop art that I first saw with vibrant colours raincoats and umbrellas, mostly from Quebec City.
Similarly, this artist has done remarkable artwork for the metro. In this case, his Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) mural in the mezzanine of Pie IX metro. This is the motto of the Olympic Games adopted by Pierre de Coubertin since its renaissance in 1894.
I found him in the foyer of Place des Arts during an entracte at Les Grands Ballets. I suspect I have seen his work on doors somehere in a church.
Notably, his biography notes that he was born in Barcelona, and died where he had set up his studio in St. Hilaire on Christmas Day.
This female textile artist has a piece along the windows of the Place des Arts called Curtain of Light.
My one foray into Georgia was a day trip to Savannah from Hilton Head. There are many highlights including this museum tour, and I love that I can visit from afar and relieve the architecture tours of the Jepson Center and the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarter's.
Clue in a balloon
Oil on glass
Bold letters in a chocolate box menu
Invisible ink - lemon juice, oil on glass
Padlock a pair of scissors
Set a broken clock or watch as a combination clue
Cypher on popsicle sticks
Lockets
Photoshop a framed picture
Write in a foreign language
Craft a cryptex with styrofoam cups
Bilingual law language
Massey Lectures to listen to on Ideas
Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution
Nobel Peace Prize, credited with saving over a billion people from starvation
The Difference between dilly dally and lollygagging
Dilly dally, from "dallier" in French, "to amuse oneself slowly". Today it refers timewasting and indulgent. The pair of words doubles the effect, called reduplication.
Lollygagging, from lally. Also timewasting, but usually describes the way two people in love would act around each other, sometimes referring to bawdy public behavior between couples
The Evolution of the Nutcracker Ballet
Achalandé English bustling (full of people) or well-stocked (store)
Antidote writing assistance software - get hi
Stonewall Riots 1969, Greenwich Village bar, mafia run, haven for LGBTQ, police raid leads to mob, no injuries, 1970 First Gay Pride parade begins from Stonewall
Raëlism Rael was a French born self-proclaimed profit, announcing the future arrival of extraterrestrials called Elohim. A connection to Quebec of this Swiss based "UFO" cult was a branch that moved near Valcourt in 1992, with a museum opened called UFOland (closed as financially unviable). A female "secret society" formed called the Order of Raël's angels (1998). A claim was made that the first human clone, named Eve, announced by Rael's partner and successor Bousselier in 2002. In 2004, Raël's Girls were the subject of Playboy issue.
Who By Fire Leonard Cohen song (spanish guitar and poetic paradoxes), Who shall I say is calling?
W. H. Auden
Herman Melville (quoted by Louise Penny's Gamache in Still Life)
Evil is unspectacular and always human
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.
CEGEP program (technique de bioécologie) I hoped for my budding naturalist
McGill's Ciphers of The Times (Victorian Agony Column Game)
Mayan Number to Decimal/Arabic converter
Lectin - found in food, carbohydrate-binding proteins
Governing Security: The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies, by Yolanda and Alberto's son, f, now a scholar and leader
English words of Arabic origins T-Z
E la verita - sung with a dementia patient and her daughters
Pluvio restaurant - nice food with big prices, diminished by the company who was rude and irritable and made a scene
