Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
This weeks prompt was:
Light from an electronic device can create a dramatic photo. Most of us own at least one electronic gadget! Practice this illumination technique and share what you capture here on Wednesday. Alternate light sources: candle light, low lamp light, fireplace, or string lights.
Although I have to confess mine was from my (not previously published) archives due to lack [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2012
Filed under Art, Books, Out & About
Great A’Tuin is the Giant Star Turtle who travels through the Discworld universe carrying four elephants who in turn carry the Discworld:
The sex of the World Turtle is pivotal in proving or disproving a number of conflicting theories about the destination of Great A’Tuin’s journey through the cosmos. If, as the Discworld version of the [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 6th 2011
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By Alfred Lord Tennyson
WHO would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
II.
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb’d I would sing and say,
“Who is [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2011
Filed under Out & About
Once again I am not sure who is watching who…
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 29th 2011
Filed under Out & About, Science & Nature
Information provided at the Birmingham Sea Life centre explains how reproduction on a coral reef can be complicated:
Clown fish start life as males and live inside a sea anemone, together with a female clownfish. The female prevents the males from changing sex by bullying them. When she dies, the largest male changes sex [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2011
