HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR 2008, FULL of WONDERS! HUGZ from Rii I put this photo of mine, taken in the spring, looking through a window, [...]

Moment of VAN GOGH: SUNFLOWERS

“You may know that the peony is Jeannin’s, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.” Vincent van Gogh (written in a letter to his brother Theo) Vincent van Gogh was a great painter. I did not really like his work until I went to the museum bearing his name [...]

12-Days of Christmas: A Novel Take

This particular Countdown for Christmas has been our special favourite for decades aka since it first appeared in the 1980′s in Ireland. We are known to quote parts of it at all seasons in our family. The countdown is read by Frank Kelly who is better known nowadays as the heavy drinking, foulmouthed priest in [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: FESTIVE

FESTIVE is the theme This Festive Season on PICTURE PERFECT This is my take on the theme FESTIVE with the Moonlit Crane all covered in pink decoration of lights to show that tis the festive season of goodwill to all and sundry. Tis for now, Rii xx © Photos: Riihele. All rights reserved HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! [...]

LITERACY or Love of Reading

“What I can think about, I can talk about. What I can say, I can write. What I can write, I can read. I can read what I can write and what other people can write for me to read.” Professor Roach Van Allen The picture, – do click at it to make it clearer, [...]

Pearls of Wisdom…

“ALL ART IS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL; The Pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.“ Federico Fellini (1920-1993) (Picture off the net) NOTE: Fellini had a great knack of saying things so concisely and yet with such great depth. — All art is saying something about the person making the art. A pearl is the oyster’s story about the oyster. [...]

BLONDE JOKE: TREE

Question: How do you get an one-armed Blonde down from a tree? Answer: By waving…!! Tis for now from Da Blonde, Rii Photo: Riihele. All rights reserved.

Incidents & Such Like: COFFINS

I read the other day Lise’s entry about the rude and inconsiderate use of the mobile phone in public places such as trains and even ladies rooms; and a memory of a most unusual kind came to me. I used to daily take this bus going long distance and there always were rather colourful fellow [...]

Boulevard of Plants — ALHAMBRA

Just want to remind us all that there is summer somewhere… Tis for now, Rii xx Photo: Taken by Becki – my daughter. All rights reserved. Link to Alhambra.  The plant in the photo is Oleander. Oleander (Nerium oleander), is a evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is the only [...]

James Bond of the Cat World: Simon D Pud

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.“ (Leonardo da Vinci) This ‘James Bond of Cats’ with an attitude that is cattitude and who does impersonate ‘Kramer’ to the T by his sudden barges and skidding; also does ‘Cato’ with his sudden surprise attacks making me scream – every time – but making him is so pleased [...]