Relats conjunts: Still life with onions and herring

«Natura morta amb cebes i arengada»
(Isidre Nonell – 1910)

Relats conjunts

Hm ... onions ... fish ... onion fish: In German a Zwiebelfisch is a character that by mistake is printed in a font different from the rest.
So what did Isidre wish to tell us with this very painting that is (very probably) nothing but a d'arengada vermella (red herring)?
It's obvious: But I won't tell you.
Surely you will find out for yourselves, won't you? ;-)

Friday is Skyday

20:53

21:24

Beers & Books (378) – Alice Munro

Alice Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024)

Friday is Skyday

Aurora borealis
with Cygnus and Lyra

Aurora borealis above observatory

Beers & Books (377) – Prishvin: Der irdische Kelch

. . .

Mikhail Prishvin (4 February 1873 – 16 January 1954)

Friday is Skyday

20:52

Beers & Books (376) – Shiloh and Other Stories

Shiloh and Other Stories

Bobby Ann Mason * 1 May 1940

Swallows are back!

Today ‘my’ beloved swallows arrived
and have moved into their nest
above my study. How wonderful!

And since four swallow families
have their summer quarters around our house , ...

and raise their offspring here ...

... at the end of August
there will be plenty of flying activity over Seanhenge
Hopefully

Friday is Skyday

...

 

Beers & Books (375) – Birth & Death(lessness)

It's once again the (International) Day of the Book.
Well, and once again I do not care, but just repeat:
For me 365 days in any year are days of books,
and 366 in leap-years.

Anyway, on Shakespeare's 460th birthday
the 408th anniversary of either his dead
and the death of Cervantes
just to wish a very special literary evening.

May my voice not put you off the realm poetry. ;-)

Beers & Books (374) – The I.R.A.

Tim Pat Coogan * 22 April 1935

Smombies

Once upon a time, entering a pub one could meet people talking to eachother. Nowadays:

21:27
Lonesome elderly smombie

21:27
Four smombies,
three of them sitting "together",
whilst – hear hear! – a waitress listens to a customer.

21:38
Two more addicts.

21:42
How did people survive with but one ringtone?

 

Oh, and this goes, "of course", also for women ...

 

Today five years ago

Exactly 20:58.
Even five years later, my mouth is watering.