"A dark and foreboding sky, overshadowing the crepuscularity that would normally have been present, is pierced by a shaft of brilliant sun that highlights the inverted kayaks on the dock, inverted to keep the spiders and bugs within from multiplying at a prodigious rate, becoming larger than even life itself, or even cross breeding to create some new horrible species to harm the unwary as they slink or ooze out." Wow, I could maybe use that sentence as an entry in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The annual contest, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, began in the 1980's conducted by the English Department at San Jose State University. The task for an entrant is to compose the opening sentence to the worst possible novel. I could also have used a "dark and stormy night" if I wanted to use the single most ridiculed opening line of a novel.Winners of the 2013 contest can be found at this link. If you get a kick out of clever use of language, check it out, they are laugh-out-loud-funny!
The swan family sorted by size. (Since this photo was taken, two of the three cygnets have perished - only the grayish one survives).
The clematis around the area are in full bloom.
Two families of geese with their respective many goslings are a lot quieter than a lawnmower - except they poop everywhere. Not a good time for humans to walk barefoot in the grass.
A clematis after being excessively manipulated in Photoshop Elements - sometimes, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Meanwhile, at the beach, this is the initial footprint as a runner propels himself forward. I like the way each toe smoothly swiped into the sand to help push-off.
"It was a dark and stormy night at the beach, silent as an abandoned morgue a thousand years after seeing its last body, the sand piled high like so many planets, compressed tightly as in a black hole, splintering and cracking like a gum-smacking chew in a surly teen's mouth.........." Oh yeah, Bulwer-Lytton here I come.
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