tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post2051241637449969139..comments2023-09-24T09:46:20.734+02:00Comments on Magic Lantern Show: Roadside Blues . . .Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-60237115524118377002010-06-16T14:08:11.907+02:002010-06-16T14:08:11.907+02:00Hi Solange, thanks so much for stopping by here at...Hi Solange, thanks so much for stopping by here at this obscure little blog... really appreciate your kind words and big hug !<br /><br />One might guess with such a name you have some French origins ???Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-70566983527036062412010-06-16T14:06:31.606+02:002010-06-16T14:06:31.606+02:00Mythop...
Just realized now that you'd left so...Mythop...<br />Just realized now that you'd left some more thoughts here... I am always amazed by the words left by sharp and hilarious readers out there, from many corners of the map... Peony envy is a classic, but then that mad Lynne behind the Louciao moniker is a special case ! Unto herself !<br /><br />Yeah, those monkeys are typing away, all day, every day, we mere mortals have no chance of keeping up. As for dreams, just saw an interesting comment from Tom Robbins, who observed that in English we say "Sweet Dreams", as though dreams are something sort of passive which may occur, but in French one says, "Fait de beaux reves"... which means "make fine dreams", as though we have an active role in what transpires, if we are so lucky to have nocturnal visions... Perhaps something in you was longing for a visit from your father ? Who knows...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-59815402621124221992010-06-16T07:22:46.272+02:002010-06-16T07:22:46.272+02:00How do you find so many vivid, stunning flowers? ...How do you find so many vivid, stunning flowers? I kept scrolling in awe, feeling like the flowers were leaping at me through the screen. Beautiful photos, Owen.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13302700145350385530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-82717251102215306812010-06-14T18:01:00.987+02:002010-06-14T18:01:00.987+02:00Your blog is just awesome...
The pictures are spec...Your blog is just awesome...<br />The pictures are spectacular...<br />Big hug<br />solangemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563072104444932948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-11572661039585067392010-06-13T22:24:53.861+02:002010-06-13T22:24:53.861+02:00PS, by the way....a wonderful homage to your fathe...PS, by the way....a wonderful homage to your father! I had a good one too. He died abruptly at 40. I still learn things from him. In fact, a few years back I had a plumbing issue in my house. And I had a dream in which my father told me how to solve this problem. Next day, I tried it, and he was right! I know that sounds crazy, but....really!! Some times I find that event so interesting, other times, it seems sorta creepy.mythopolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03164758700393086005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-62533832087339034002010-06-13T22:10:34.642+02:002010-06-13T22:10:34.642+02:00I enjoy reading all these responses from your read...I enjoy reading all these responses from your readers. Interesting how tuned in people are, far and wide. Quite wonderful! "Peony envy" really cracked me up! I was thinking about those monkeys on the typewriters. I was reminded of several of the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. Have you come across him? Amazing stuff. Get a copy, if you don't already have one.<br /><br />As for Homer, everyone should have an imaginary friend.<br /><br />My fav photo, (they are all wonderful) for some reason, is the one featuring a couple of blurred poppies, amidst a crowd of buds. As it turns out, while I usually plant a veggie garden every year, this year I planted only one thing. Poppies. The seeds were sent to me from a blogger on Isle of Wight. Gotta love blog land! Peace!mythopolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03164758700393086005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-76668703208768886072010-06-13T13:07:41.904+02:002010-06-13T13:07:41.904+02:00Hi Dusty... With encouragement such as yours I can...Hi Dusty... With encouragement such as yours I can do naught else but continue on this strange odyssey. Homer joins me when he can, for he is on an odyssey of his own...<br />:-)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-71117536041121355952010-06-13T04:03:39.928+02:002010-06-13T04:03:39.928+02:00I so love reading your posts not about flowers and...I so love reading your posts not about flowers and about wonderful sages such as Homer. I have my own Homer and am quite content when she shares her often poignant wisdom through my words. Write on, beloved Owen.dustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107854477630781814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-91053555255346847412010-06-13T00:55:38.790+02:002010-06-13T00:55:38.790+02:00Hello Jeff...
Et oui, un passage d'un bord d&...Hello Jeff...<br /><br />Et oui, un passage d'un bord d'une petite route de campagne vers l'intérieur d'un cimetière perdu et oublié. Mais parfois les fleurs de cimetière sont particulièrement belles, peut-être car bien nourries aux racines profondes ? <br /><br />En anlglais il y a une expression assez parlant pour décrire l'état d'être mort... he's pushing up daisies (il fait pousser des marguerites)<br /><br />Mais bon, tu sais que j'ai un faible pour les cimetières, je travaille sur mon doctorat en messages laissés par des êtres humains pour se souvenir de ceux qui sont partis, des messages pour rendre hommage à l'infini; l'infini de la douleur de la perte, l'infini de la joie d'être encore en vie...<br /><br />"Faut-il que je m'en souvienne<br />la joie venais toujours après la peine..."<br /><br />Et c'est avec joie que je constate ton passage ici, et oui, ces coquelicots débordaient d'émotions, je suis resté un long moment au bord d'une route perdue pour les tenir compagnie en pleine campagne... sous la flotte... les pleurs du ciel.<br /><br />Bon dimanche amigoOwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-23535090051516680312010-06-12T22:43:03.479+02:002010-06-12T22:43:03.479+02:00Je commençais à admirer tes photos de coquelicots,...Je commençais à admirer tes photos de coquelicots, que je trouve d'ailleurs superbes... et il faut que tu termines par des fleurs de cimetière...:)<br /><br />Mais tes larmes de rosée sur ces pétales de coquelicots sont le gage qu'il y a toujours de l'émotion dans ce qu'il y a de plus beau...!<br />T'inquiètes... ça veut rien dire...! ! !<br /><br />Amitiés pixpot !jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706496619691322297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-14490034126694352502010-06-12T22:28:38.827+02:002010-06-12T22:28:38.827+02:00Hi Clytie,
Tears are perhaps the finest praise... ...Hi Clytie,<br />Tears are perhaps the finest praise... and as one who is close to you likes to say, if they fill your eyes, then in some small way perhaps they have succeeded as a work of art... and if one could be remembered one day as having lived the life of an artist, I think that is the life most worth living, to drink deeply of life, to transform the wonder around us into something we can hold onto, and remember, and find solace in...<br />yes, call me "seeking solace in roadside wildflowers"...<br />Thank you Clytie<br />Your words here warm my toad heart...<br />:-)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-23037503324506389712010-06-12T21:10:05.161+02:002010-06-12T21:10:05.161+02:00Lynne, AHEM !
Please write 100 times ....
"...Lynne, AHEM !<br /><br />Please write 100 times ....<br /><br />"I must not mention peony envy"<br />"I must not mention..."Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-45239426415032506142010-06-12T21:08:48.482+02:002010-06-12T21:08:48.482+02:00Hi Stickup,
Glad you enjoyed the male bonding here...Hi Stickup,<br />Glad you enjoyed the male bonding here (not to be confused with male bondage !), and please see responses to TechnoB and Roxana above, my father is very real, but Homer is a little less so, though he has been with me for a long time, he is a good friend for an imaginary guy.<br />:-)<br /><br />And yes, imho there is something wrong with these common male obsessions for sports and cars... I do not share them, and am really rather apalled that so many people do share them... with all the very real and glaring problems facing the human race these days, I think it is disturbingly depressing that millions upon millions of men (and a few women too) will, for example, over the next month be madly obsessed with football in South Africa; while oil is gushing in the Gulf of Mexico and Greenland is melting at rates never before witnessed... but what do I know... <br /><br />oh yes, the big pink flower is a peony, but the blurred structure in the background is not a cathedral, it is much smaller, in a cemetery out in the countryside near a small village, a family vault of a kind rarely built anymore these days...<br /><br />Absolutely loved your wildflower too...<br /><br />A fine weekend to you...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-74572712030217960462010-06-12T20:53:16.328+02:002010-06-12T20:53:16.328+02:00Dear Roxana,
Ah, take a deep breath :-)
Please se...Dear Roxana,<br />Ah, take a deep breath :-)<br /><br />Please see answer to TechnoB. above, again, I shouldn't want to mislead anyone, Homer Stern is an imaginary but very close friend. A part of me... you could almost call me a split personality...<br />:-)<br />Indeed, I was in Beauvais, as the cathedral photos attest, but for reasons which shall remain mysterious here. And there were some magnificent roadside blue viperines near Beauvais. And other wonders to behold, for anyone willing to stop and behold them.<br /><br />And I am holding my breath to see what will come next on the Floating Bridge. In the meanwhile, you are welcome to pick one or two of the flowers here for a vase on your virtual table...<br />:-)<br />Thank you Roxana !<br />:-)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-67135180280104233472010-06-12T20:39:23.465+02:002010-06-12T20:39:23.465+02:00Note to anyone interested :
Clo very kindly point...Note to anyone interested :<br /><br />Clo very kindly pointed out the names of the other flowers, other than the allium which Patricia named above.<br /><br />The first photo in blues and violet shades are known in French as "Viperine", which in English is Viper's Bugloss.<br /><br />The white flowers here with bulb shaped structures preceeding the white blooms are Silene or Catchfly.<br /><br />And the pale violet flowers with dark blue veins in the field with the poppies here are "lin bleu", which translates to Flax...<br /><br />Live and learn, or should I say, blog and learn.<br /><br />Thanks again to Clo and Patricia for your help here...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-82430243416543046712010-06-12T20:34:42.188+02:002010-06-12T20:34:42.188+02:00Howdy Clo ! ! !
Ravi de te revoir, et j'espère...Howdy Clo ! ! !<br />Ravi de te revoir, et j'espère que les retrouvailles avec un de retour d'Australie étaient, ou sont, longues et riches en émotions et plaisirs.<br /><br />Oui, super content de te voir passer, et surtout que tu nous amènes les réponses aux nom de ces fleurs ! J'aurais dû douter que si quelqu'un savait, ce serait Clo !<br /><br />Alors, toutes ces beautés s'appellent lin bleu, viperine, et silènes... chouettes comme noms, j'adore ce coup de "viperine". Impressionnant comme nom... et impressionnantes tes connaissances des fleurs des champs...<br /><br />Et oui, la petite famille se fait des petits plaisirs de fin d'année scolaire, le spectacle de théatre d'une fille, l'autre qui devrait faire un spectacle de danse a dû renoncer suite à un petit sejour à l'hopital pour se débarrasser d'un appendix qui s'est averé méchant tout d'un coup, mais qui parti laisse une jeune fille sage et sur la bonne voie de guérisson, mais à part ça, oui, tout va bien ici dans le grand nord.<br /><br />Oui, ravi de te lire ici, et de savoir que tu ne quittes pas le monde des blogs pour trop longtemps... à bientôt, et bonnes vacances si ce sont des vacances bientôt... bien que, dans le sud on peut vous imaginer en vacances tout le temps, destination de rêve pour tant de monde...<br /><br />Bisoux to you too chère Clo !Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-60677082451465472242010-06-12T20:24:15.354+02:002010-06-12T20:24:15.354+02:00Hi Alberto, too true too true, and some beautiful ...Hi Alberto, too true too true, and some beautiful blues to you as well this weekend, as you roam the north lands... <br /><br />PS There is a good article about Greenland in the latest issue of National Geographic magazine, which you may enjoy if you can get your hands on it...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-74244587558041637182010-06-12T20:15:44.142+02:002010-06-12T20:15:44.142+02:00Hi Patricia,
A big thank you for identifying the a...Hi Patricia,<br />A big thank you for identifying the allium, Nectaroscordum siculum ! I don't think I'd ever seen one of those in that phase just before blooming, with all those lovely buds pointing heavenward, like the conical turrets on a wondrous imaginary medieval castle, better than anything Disney imagined... yes indeed, a giant MERCI to you !Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-74032421650145304252010-06-12T20:11:22.829+02:002010-06-12T20:11:22.829+02:00Bonnie,
Thank you so much, you are very welcome to...Bonnie,<br />Thank you so much, you are very welcome to join the bus, for some unguided travelling, and no telling where it may be stopping next... roll up, roll up for the mystery tour... the magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away<br />;-)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-46170535956116601482010-06-12T20:06:41.991+02:002010-06-12T20:06:41.991+02:00Dr. Mythopolis,
I am particularly pleased if my mi...Dr. Mythopolis,<br />I am particularly pleased if my minor literary efforts succeed in helping someone get lost in thought for a moment... <br /><br />It is terribly hard today to be in the least original with creative thoughts, as so much ground has already been covered by others. Those proverbial infinite monkeys sitting before their infinite typewriters for the past couple of centuries, producing and infinite number of texts growing in a geometric progression, are homing in on finally typing one of Shakespeare's plays, and in the meanwhile have churned out such an abundance of black words on white paper, to fill up the largest libraries imaginable, leaving little room for us mere mortals to say anything worthy of remembering...<br /><br />But like a vagabond by the roadside leaning against a post, I continue to whistle, thinking one day a melody all my own might be produced. Vanitas ? Illusions ? Ships in the night ?<br />Thank you good sir... anybody who loves old Volkswagens is ok in my book...<br />:-)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-83099453400469421952010-06-12T19:58:25.783+02:002010-06-12T19:58:25.783+02:00Dear Robert,
Perhaps I should reply : it takes one...Dear Robert,<br />Perhaps I should reply : it takes one to know one ?<br />:-)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-31219880206110605092010-06-12T19:57:43.307+02:002010-06-12T19:57:43.307+02:00Hi Lydia,
If I can in some small way to contribute...Hi Lydia,<br />If I can in some small way to contribute to helping you fall in love with France, then that is a noble goal to pursue, and I shall continue in such efforts. I too fell in love with France over a number of trips, and was very fortunate that the fates conspired to give me a chance to live here. A privilege which I treasure most on days like last Thursday when I could escape for a little while and go roam the countryside, which I do at every chance... and have not tired of doing these past 18 years here. Thank you from the bottom of my toad heart for these kind words...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-5005068193603375662010-06-12T19:53:21.142+02:002010-06-12T19:53:21.142+02:00Hi TechnoB.,
I must admit, as I wouldn't want ...Hi TechnoB.,<br />I must admit, as I wouldn't want to lead anyone astray, that Homer is an imaginary friend who has been popping in and out of my life for rather a long time, some twenty years or so, but he is terribly astute, far moreso than I, and he helps me see things that I might have missed otherwise, and helps me say things which I might not have said all by myself. He is a consortium, an amalgam, of a number of people I once knew, one who had the same surname, but who is no longer with us... now you know all... <br /><br />My father, on the other hand, is very real, and really did stop to photograph flowers along mountain trails. He is over 80 at present, and showing no signs of slowing down.Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-82843694992001684252010-06-12T19:29:10.288+02:002010-06-12T19:29:10.288+02:00Hey, you're not supposed to make me cry.
Drat...Hey, you're not supposed to make me cry.<br /><br />Drat it!<br /><br />But they are good tears.<br />For beauty,<br />For flowers,<br />For memories,<br />For friends ...<br />For stopping in the middle of the road to capture a moment forever ...Clytiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869657234201857627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-37716684265115277092010-06-12T18:28:26.783+02:002010-06-12T18:28:26.783+02:00I have peony envy.I have peony envy.Lynne with an ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00320166770541319601noreply@blogger.com