a little bit of spring

so, here are the results of my ramblings in apple orchard and other places full of spring. the gallery is rather heavy on apple-blossom, but then again, apple-blossom is among world’s most beautiful flowers.

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in case anyone doubted the intelligence of beaver

lunch tenses

in ”A Scandal In Belgravia”, Irene Adler texts Sherlock Holmes with words:

I am not dead. Let’s have lunch

and i thought: how elegant.

ans i also thought that food, just like verbs, has tenses.

the past of lunch is vegetables and raw meat. the future of vegetables and raw meat is a meal. that kind of thing. and an excellent meal is future perfect.

illustration:

the birds in my head

at some point wolfie said sth like – everyone has one’s own birds in their head. and i suddenly thought – gee, what a brilliant formulation. those idees fixe, bees in the bonnet, little tantalising grains of sand in the brainmachine… maybe they are just birds, mucking around and having fun inside our brainspace.

and what happens when we let them out. what a burst of creativity. what a moment of chaotic everywhereness.

maybe this explains the angry birds being so popular?

check out the poll:

the sheer size of it (soo.. the word of today iiiiiiissss…)

CAVE RABBIT*

which, apparently lived in caves and was of comparable size to the cave lion and bear. probably either bigger or better armed, as it had to compete for habitat with the carnivores mentioned above.

nobody is quite sure of what they ate, and their place in the great food chain of the ice age remains undisclosed. it looks like they were hunted to extinction by the cavemen (actually, by the cavewomen) who attacked the beast from behind. they later shared the meat with the cavemen, but kept the pretty tails and skins, and so on as fashionable accessories. given that the cavemen were not particularly bright, they did not know how passionate fashion can get.

so here i have a little diagram of cave rabbit, with important parts labelled accordingly.

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(from my class; a student: well, i think rabbits are those that live in the cave)

bunting

she was there, and sang before eating

unable to decide between leeks and daffodils

so.. leek or daffodil?

i like the idea of the leek, it appeals to me. white on the bottom, green on the top, and quite edible.

the idea of the daffodil is not bad either: buried deep under the snows, it survives the winter to come up ever so green and brilliantly yellow, and to flutter in the winds, and confuse poets, artists and simple passers-by.

so here is a poll: leek or daffodil.