This is a photo. I took it one day on the water. It was on a Saturday morning or Sunday when I was sipping coffee and and watching the concentric circles expanding on the water, not knowing if they came from a diving bird, or something else. And then, it broke the surface, or should I say, came …
Zen Garden
Due to social activities beyond my control, I'm late to post my final post for the 2016 A to Z Blog Challenge. As always, I learned so much and met some wonderful new people. Congratulations to all my friends who also finished the challenge. Wishing you the best in your writing endeavors for the month …
Yellow
On the spectrum of visible light, yellow is a color between green and orange. "According to surveys in Europe, Canada and the United States, yellow is the color people most often associate with amusement, optimism, gentleness, and spontaneity, but also with duplicity, envy, jealousy, avarice, and, in the U.S., with cowardice," states an article at Wikipedia. …
Xanthan Gum: Our Chemical Chum
Xanthan Gum is a common additive found in everything from eye drops to concrete. As a thickener, it's used in chewing gum, yogurt, and soup. As an emulsifier, it prevents the formation of crystals in ice cream. In salad dressings, it blends oil and water, suspends spices and herbs, and provides tantalizing coverage and flavor for greens. It binds water to fruit fillings, …
Winged Wunderkammer
A wunderkammer is a collection of objects much like a curiosity cabinet of old. Some of these collections as gathered over the years have been left to museums such as the Tate or MoMA. Consider this a tiny cabinet of curiosities of moments of movement and of rest. Gotta wing it: LIFE is calling. All …
Vulpine Adventures Anew
My earlier post about the Gray Fox was eaten after publication by WordPress. If you saw a notification go by, now you know what happened. I'll start over again. The word "vulpine" means like or having to do with foxes. I've loved foxes ever since I saw one darting across our field in the dead of winter, a flourish of …