A group of villagers down on the shore. They're up enjoying the sunrise. Earlier in the week the retired GP was walking her Sheltie and spotted a Skylark. Other dog owners and the occasional 'twitcher' have heard the news and come to see if they too can catch a glimpse of it. Give it a month and the fields around the last wee house before Denmark will be alive with this plain little birds lilting song. The seasons are suddenly moving on and Spring is in the air. February seems to have rushed by even more quickly than January. Is it an age thing when months go by as quickly as weeks and weeks like days ?
The weather is beautiful so we head down to Edinburgh on the train to see the picture of the chaffinches that we are interested in buying.
In the National Gallery the Monarch of the Glen greets visitors. One of Scotlands most iconic pictures. The image is much used on kitsch shortbread tins but in real life it has a grandeur all of its own. The scarlet background is the perfect counterfoil.
There's also a print of a C-A-T in front of Siena cathedral by Elizabeth Blackadder but it somehow doesn't meet the 'must have' criterion.
The observational humour of a London based professor. Wry, dry and understated ? :https://x.com/samagreene/status/1894865515627061347
Things about super glue I didn't want to know :https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63904443/mucus-super-glue/
Deep Seek in perspective ( I'd have to admit it's so easy to use but I wouldn't download the app) :https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/02/what-deepseek-means-for-ai-competition-the-beginning.html
10 comments:
It is beautiful, but I think you might have tired of the chaffinches over time, as it is also quite sad. I loved the photo with Ben Franklin (although also quite sad?) and have added Sam Greene on Blue Sky.
Greene understands the difference between opinion and analysis.
Hari OM
I am hoping to get over to the New Contemporaries show in March. Am no longer seeking to buy art... although failed last year, purchasing one tiny piece for the van. Who could resist nine square inches with a little shed on wheels? YAM xx
Lisa, I am europesheila on BlueSky. I’d love to connect (paphosmuseum here when the stars align)
The subtle first signs of spring, signs of hope.
I like the 'other work by the same artist.' The colors are beautiful.
The mussel glue article was interesting, as the wife is having surgery to repair a fractured tibia, from a dog collision. They will fill the damaged bone with cement that sets up in 10 minutes and will (hopefully) save 12 weeks of immobility.
I prefer the 'other work.' How thoughtless of someone to have met with a fatal accident and slowed the trains.
Interesting to read the article about mussel glue, but I shall never look at a plate of mussels in quite the same way!
I think the painting of Chaffinches was not only sad, but cruel too. What bird/animal loving person would chain them up and deprive them of their freedom.
I love how you still spell out C-A-T. The paw prints of your very loved dogs are always on your hearts.
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