Signs and Meanings

6 responses to “Signs and Meanings”

1. Constance – Foreign Sanctuary

   March 26, 2015 at 9:09 am

   Nice photos!

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2. Samantha Biobabbler

   March 26, 2015 at 2:40 pm

   Wow–great shots of spring, and you are really batting 1000 on your quotations. Love the one on the header and for this post.

   Only AFTER I pasted it to my “nice words” file did I translate A.C. Doyle. NICE! (Read ALL of Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid and am CONVINCED it permanently changed how I think.)

   =)

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   1. mthew

      March 26, 2015 at 3:04 pm

      Thanks!

      Doyle, writing Holmes — or is it the other way around? — says some similar things repeatedly.

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3. Paul Lamb

   March 27, 2015 at 5:50 am

   Nice literary reference!

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4. auroramama

   March 28, 2015 at 8:32 am

   Thank you! This is the first year I can recall doubting that spring will ever arrive — not intellectually, but subconsciously. Looking at advertisements for summer clothes and having trouble imagining people walking around outside wearing them; looking at pictures of trees in leaf the way I look at pictures of tropical butterflies: wow, wouldn’t that be something to see! It’s very good to be reminded of the little things.

   Also, that’s a splendid picture of witch-hazel blossoms. I know how hard it is to catch the impact those narrow petals have on the hungry human eye. Is that the hybrid ‘Jelena’?

   I saw the first Crocus tommasinianus peeping out of people’s lawns yesterday, palest lilac, and then the bright violet ones I planted for my mother. The person who breeds a new flower has surely done as much for humanity as the inventor of Brillat-Savarin’s new dish.

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   1. mthew

      March 28, 2015 at 10:12 am

      Thank you for these thoughts, AM!

      I don’t know which hybrid of witch-hazel it is; don’t recall noticing it before. This patch was at the entrance to Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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