I’ve been traveling the past few days on a Presidents’ Day holiday trip. No, I didn’t know there was such a thing, either! I will be home in the morning, and I will try to post something a bit more ambitious then.
‘Now that I have your attention’
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97 responses to “‘Now that I have your attention’”
Thanks Nancy. I never saw one that color before, looks like an overgrown goldfinch.
The Yellow Alabama cardinal.
https://articles.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/one_in_a_million_yellow_cardinal.amp?__twitter_impression=true
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/owlceanside shows a newly-hatched barn owl, with four more due in the next week.
Meanwhile, I cannot see one of the two Berry College eaglets; hope nothing adverse has occurred.
Thank you for your thoughtful birthday wishes! You are so nice to think of me. It’s been a great day — son Steve and daughter Amy came out from Ithaca NY yesterday, and today in spite of light snow, we drove to the University of New Hampshire, where Chris and I met in 1951. Stopped and looked around one of the old buildings where a lot of memories were made. Then on to the Seacoast… actually to Dover, an early settlement on Great Bay. I would NEVER drive that far for fried seafood, even though it’s a favorite, but it seemed okay as UNH is near the coast anyway. We could watch snow falling from the grey sky into the grey water and onto some seagulls who didn’t seem bothered. Big windows in the seafood place.
There will be a party Saturday, which I will tell you about if my energy level stays up. Wish I could invite the Villagers!
Charlotte: This villager would love to have been there. Miss seafood and the coasts, both E and W. Are Steve and Amy at Cornell [I’m Ag ’51]?
Peace,
I just saw that something adverse did occur at Berry College: one of the eaglets – only about a week old – fell out of the nest, fatally. Pshaw. No details available.
1. c x-p: Sorry for your loss.
2. I get Hi and Lois via Comics Kingdom, and am apparently out of the loop. How is the difference btw Greek and Roman mythology like “Marvel vs. D.C.”? Wait: Are those two comics syndicates?
Also, what about asking a grade schooler for that distinction. Only major differences that occur to this unlettered prof. are a. the gods have different names [e.g., Aphrodite vs. Venus], and b. Perhaps in the Empire, the gods were more incorporated into official affairs, though it was not really an established religion in our current sense.
Peace,
emb, those are the two largest comic book publishers. DC has Superman, etc and Marvel has Spiderman and the like. DC was strongest in the late 1930’s-1960’s, and Marvel has been gaining ground since the early 1960’s.
I always wondered about that calico cat….thanks Ludwig! 🙂
The differences are also philosophical, strange as that may seem. The Romans were building an empire, so their versions of the gods had more authoritarian, perhaps militaristic traits. The Greek Ares was more about war for the sake of it, while the Roman Mars was more focused and involved with discipline and conquest.
DC comics reflected the times of their beginnings, with the nearly perfect heroes often depicted in WWII scenarios. Marvel fed off the 1960s’ counterculture, with troubled characters dealing with their personal issues — and then with societal ones, with racial themes supplemented with mutant issues. For a while many of the Marvel characters had to cope with being outlawed or regulated by government. DC comics picked up on those themes a decade or two later, but by then Marvel had picked up more than half the market.
Thanks. So the kid is just saying one is earlier, the other later. You continue broadening your liberal ed, or you never actually started in the first place, no matter what courses you took. I got much of mine, as noted here before, team-teaching an intro honors course at BSU with a psych teacher and a Shakespeare scholar. So did they.
This morning’s Pioneer: just lost a former neighbor, woman who made the classical mistake as a teen, eventually divorced the two-timer, managed to turn her life around, w/o a college ed and never rich, but socially mature, net contributor to the community. Funeral w/b later, in nice weather. “Kids” she could be proud of. Expect Elaine has welcomed her.
Peace,
Happy birthday Miss Charlotte!
emb, I don’t think it is one is earlier, the other is later. It’s like TruckerRon said, they both have similar subject matter but they diverge in characterization and action.
Mark: granted, I realize what Trucker is saying. But a kid that age doesn’t likely know much re the changes in society that occurred in the latter half of the 20th C. He may know one outfit is older, or maybe just that the two exist. OTOH, it is hard to know what is in the head of a grade-school kid who has been that age for decades. Time to suspend disbelief and just enjoy the comic.
I know what calico is, and how it has long been applied to cats. Must look up gingham, which perhaps is only applied to dogs in this nursery rhyme.
Peace,
It’s possible, cep, that there was something wrong with the fledgling, and the parents tipped it out of the nest.
Or, if it was the younger of the two, that its sib pushed it out. Often, nature is not pretty. When it is, we can find ways to make it less so. Peace,
The only gingham dogs I could find were stuffed animals, with the appropriate checked pattern.
Nature outside is pretty today; sun on snow. I have to be careful, / stupid behavior about 12 yr. ago; residual snowblindness.
Hi, right about now is 26F, but temps will plunge, and more snow in the offing. Happy Lent. I’ve given up snowball fights.
Peace,
I did not know the parent would do that, Sideburns; makes sense in nature, though.
I do know of sibs’ actions. In the same abode as today’s crop of barn owls, there were 4 owlets about 3 or 4 years ago, and the two older ones quite systematically killed the two younger ones by keeping them away from food and by standing/sitting on them at every chance. When they died, the operator of the cameras stopped showing the family for about a week or so. My guess is that, during that span, s/he managed to get into the nesting box and clear out the bodies…without being attacked by the parents.
Good to hear the neighborhood ruffians will be safe from eMb’s snowballs until April 1st.
emb, read to the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Kitty
It says the author of the poem about the Calico cat and the Gingham dog based the cat on this toy. So it makes sense that the Gingham dog would be another stuffed toy covered with the gingham fabric.
Happy Belated Birthday, Sweet Charlotte.
As I have mentioned, I like birthday recognitions to go on for at least a week. 🙂
Dear emb, I bet you do miss the seafood and the ocean. Amy graduated from Cornell in the 1980’s; she followed her boyfriend out there when he was getting an advanced degree; now they’re married, still live and work on one of Ithaca’s hills. Steve, our oldest child, and his wife and daughter live in Lansing, a town farther up Cayuga Lake.
Would you believe there is a very large salt mine in Lansing! It’s associated with the ancient lake in some way I’ve forgotten. I was surprised to learn this. But it makes me think of Mozart, in Salsburg.
For eighty years I have been reading that poem by Eugene Field. Have lots of poetry books, mostly anthologies, and often dip into one or another. Field was a tough newspaperman who also wrote sentimental and/or amusing poetry; Little Boy Blue, and Wynkin, Blinkin, and Nod are/were very popular a hundred years ago.
Nice to read of the Ithaca connection in the Wikipedia article! Thanks to Mark for finding this — what an amazing talent you have. I will show this to Amy tomorrow; she will be interested; Steve too, he is awfully literary.
Dearest Ghost, thank you for the birthday wishes. You have the right idea about celebrations.
Lots of love to you and Jackie.
And many kisses to dear Dickens, he sent me a lot of them yesterday; made me very happy.
First things first …. HAPPY BELATED 86TH BIRTHDAY, MISS CHARLOTTE 🙂 (PSST,,YOU WOULDN’T BE INTERESTED IN AN 86 YEAR OLD MAN?)
I pray the rest of you have a dry Caturday…..cause we aren’t
later gaters…
Jerry, you still with..I pray so
Hippos and oxpeckers.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-watering-hole-animal-camera
Peace,