Thursday, February 4, 2010

Словечки

Вот catnip, оно же catmint. Кошачья мята, и кошачья мята; хотя, конечно, интересно — и кошке можно «поставить выпивку». А она, оказывается, называется еще «котовник кошачий», и слово «котовник» меня почему-то рассмешило :-)

Еще было приятно встретить frills, «рюшечки», в значении «необязательное украшение чего-либо», в данном случае — жизни.

"What elements are pure frills — they’d be nice, but you could do without them and never really be unhappy?"

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Old houses

Some today's magic.



I must have walked a hundred times past this house, but I never saw that girl's sculpture. Was she hiding?.. But here she is, and now the warm colours remind me of a mermaid lying on the sand :-).




And this sad stone was once a sculpture of a kid with a cat. A boy or a girl, I couldn't tell. Now its head is gone, but cat is still recognizable.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Fractals



Naked tree branches against the sky. Eternally wonderful natural fractals. Can't see why some people think it's a sad view :-)