I’ve never let my school interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
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[I have a library card. And I’m not afraid to use it!]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Journey
My photos for “journey” travel back in time. I saw this car at a car show at Cabela’s (Buda, Texas) in October 2011.
A sweet ride!
I can almost hear it purr.
When an engine could ...
Evening darkens over
The evening darkens over
After a day so bright,
The windcapt waves discover
That wild will be the night.
There’s sound of distant thunder.
The latest sea-birds hover
Along the cliff’s sheer height;
As in the memory wander
Last flutterings of delight,
White wings lost on the white.
There’s not a ship in sight;
And as the sun goes under,
Thick clouds conspire to cover
The moon that should rise yonder.
Thou art alone, fond lover.
The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Bridges (1844-1930, England)
April is poetry month.
Our honeysuckle is in bloom. On Easter morning, I managed to walk before sunrise. I doubled back each time I passed the honeysuckle, to be able to take in the sweet aroma. It was quiet and clear, with the moonlight and moon shadows following me.
Honeysuckle in bloom
So sweet smelling
I removed the smidgens of the winter-evaporated ice in the ice cube trays, washed and refilled the trays. Summer temperatures are nigh upon us.
Here’s an entry about ice cube trays that I posted on July 4, 2010 on my old blog.
I was making lunch one day, kale and avocado salad. (I must explain, here, that the recipe calls for 1/2 avocado. Note to the world: there is no such thing as 1/2 avocado. There is only a whole avocado and it’s for me. There may well be two halves to an avocado, but they are eaten at the same time. There is no “later” for any avocado in my house.)
I was looking for a bowl big enough for all the chopped kale. And remember, I’m one who can use up most of the kitchen items in making a sandwich. This kale and entire-avocado salad (who cares what the recipe says) needed a bowl bigger than I usually use, so I started looking around in the cabinets.
You’d think that because it’s my kitchen that I’d know where everything is. Okay, well, I do now. Probably. Anyway, the bowl I was looking for was in the second cabinet I looked in, so that search didn’t take too long.
But in the first cabinet, where I thought the bowl was (and I’m thinking it used to be there, until I-don’t-know-when), I found some ice cube trays.
Ten ice cube trays.
I have two robin’s-egg blue trays with the square cubes, two white trays also with the square cubes, five light blue trays with oval cubes and one blue tray for miniature ice cubes.
The light blue trays each have 12 ice cube holders. The robin’s-egg blue, as well as the white trays, have 14 holders. The miniature tray has 60 holders. The two white trays in the freezer with square cubes have 14 each. That makes 12 ice cube trays, total. (Excuse me while I do math now.)
I’m pretty sure that’s 204 ice cubes, in one shape or another.
I have no idea how I ended up with so many ice cube trays. We’ve had only one refrigerator at this house. Wedding gifts, maybe, from friends and family who worry about global warming?
