Wruth's Writings and Art

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Well.....this is on the way to my daughter's place just out of town....



.....and this is the nearest beach....about 45 minutes drive....

[Ruth]

White horse on a field of snow?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I can see them!! Will provide links instead.....

http://www.brightcecilia.com/forum/pi...

http://www.brightcecilia.com/forum/pi...

[Ruth]

White cows on a field of sand?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hmmmmm....back to the drawing board!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Riversdale Beach

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Those are local photos from Google images....one last try of my pic from Picasa....

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Sorry... *bugger*

[Ruth]

Gorgeous pictures, tho.

[Ken, Moderator]

Truly great stuff. NZ is one purdy island.

[Savvy]

Debbie,
Wanna go to 'Goodreads Images for Dummies' school with me?
I followed Ruth's directions multiple times and STILL no luck!
sighhhhhhhh
I usually get a better score!

[Ruth]

We've taken a trip to the dump, swept the garage, cleaned the cabin, packed up our stuff, left clean sheets and towels, poured antifreeze in the washer, unplugged the fridge and soon will lock up the cabin for another year and be on our way to Truckee, near Lake Tahoe, to have lunch with my brother. From there it's down hwy 395 to Bishop and the next day on to San Clemente.

And I never got around to writing a nice cabin piece like NE did.

[[deleted user]]

Shame bout that Ruth, would have been nice to hear about it..Safe Travelling.

[Robyn]

My success for photo uploading...

Only use part of the code they give you in the (some html is ok) instructions... e.g. replace the bit inside the speech marks entirely with your link. To put it here I have to take off the < and the > - so you put those back in...

img src=" blah blah here goes your photo information "/

The photo information comes from a right mouse click on the photo and at the bottom it will say "Properties" - under properties you will see the file link under Address URL - here is an example:

(I have to put a break here after the http:// that is always at the beginning or it will collapse the end of it off and turn it into a link)

t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:iH_0DOv8P...

(make sure you get it all right up to the .jpg part - it is not always all in view and you need to click, drag down to find the end of it)

So with the above address entered between the < and > bit you end up with


a picture of where I am probably NOT going for October holiday (see my worthy words)...

[Robyn]

oh, it collapsed it anyway - hopefully it makes sense.

Deb - You can upload Picassa - I will post in your 'stream'...

[Ruth]

In case you're interested, here's a link that shows some of my old poetry and artwork. http://web.archive.org/web/2004060720...

I haven't painted like that for some years now. In fact, my painting has slowed down and tinied up. I'm working on tiny pieces like this now:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v24...

But for a long time I painted the light and people of Southern California.

[Ken, Moderator]

Wow, you're quite the artist, too, Ruth. I'm assuming a lot of these are painted from photographs. I mean, what Mall Rats would hang like that for hours just for you (set up with your easel among all of those pedestrians)? Right.

The photograph poem must be a genre or something. I wrote one based on an old Easter photo of my family, and yours reminded me of it. And here I thought I was unique.

Must remember: no one's unique, really. The Ecclesiastes Syndrome.

[Ruth]

Yes, I worked from photos. You're right that these shots are almost impossible to set up. Let alone the fact that my studio was too small and didn't have proper lighting, and that somewhere I would have had to find, and pay, people to be models.

I used to go hang out where people wouldn't much notice me and my camera and my 400 mm zoom lens. Then, to avoid the model release problem, I changed their features when I painted. Sometimes I used bits and pieces from several photos in one painting.

Mall Rats I sold to the Redwood City Public Library, along with another one of an old woman knitting on a bench.

Nope, you're not unique in the photo poem. I've seen quite a few of them. Sharol Olds has a humdinger in which she urges her parents not to get married.

[David]

In Japanese the /n/ can be syllabic, unlike English. The form in English is of course an adaptation. The syntax is quite different.

[Ruth]

David wrote: "In Japanese the /n/ can be syllabic, unlike English. The form in English is of course an adaptation. The syntax is quite different. "

What in the world are you talking about, David? Have I missed something?

[David]

There was a haiku thread. Perhaps I posted in the wrong place.

[David]

Sue me . . .

[Ken, Moderator]

A Boy Named Sue... (oh wait, wrong thread again!)

[David]

I sue you
You sue me
We're a litigious family
With a summons I will meet you at the door!
Signed, plaintiff purple dinosaur.

[Ken, Moderator]

Wear a suit, will ya?

[David]

My jaws have grown weak
For anything tougher than suet . . .

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yes....kill it! Pricey looking operation though.....

[David]

Evergreen logs for the winter, anyway.

We had one near our house that began to lean like that. The tree guy down the street stopped his other job and took it down immediately.

[Ken, Moderator]

Now that's a Yule Log! But your camp is seasonal, right? I thought I read that you closed it up for winter like we do ours.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Some neighbours of mine had a similar sized tree taken down earlier this year.....tricky because of close neighbours and a main street only 2 metres away! It cost about $3000NZ so your $5000US seems a bit excessive!! Is it because it is difficult to get to?

[Ruth]

Rained like mad during the night, drumming away on the skylight above our bed. But this is what it looks like this morning.

[Ruth]

Christmas dinner

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Those look like scotch eggs Ruth? Only I am guessing it is a Norwegian delicacy?

[Ruth]

Farsumagru, a stuffed meat roll. Sicilian.

Round steak pounded thin, meatball mixture, cappocolla, salami, provolone, eggs. Cooked in tomato sauce.

[Carol]

What was the second dish. Cannolli,s???

[David]

Similar to brasciole?

[Ruth]

David wrote: "Similar to brasciole?"

Pretty much the same, David.

[Ruth]

carol (akittykat) wrote: "What was the second dish. Cannolli,s???"

Cannoli, yes. And that's the plural, Carol.

one cannolo
two cannoli

[Carol]

one cannolo
two cannoli
three cannoli
four
Oops can't get out the door


Thanks don't want to appear to idiotic.

[Ruth]

carol (akittykat) wrote: "one cannolo
two cannoli
three cannoli
four
Oops can't get out the door


Thanks don't want to appear to idiotic."

Heehee.

[David]

Mangia, mangia, ficchiu miu!

(Don't know if that's good Sicilian)

[Carol]

You probably just told her , she had mangy hair. hahahahahah

[Ken, Moderator]

O solo mio!

[David]

in bocca al lupo

[Ruth]

in the mouth of the wolf?

[David]

Yep. My opera-singing aunt uses it instead of "Break a leg." It's a way of wishing good luck without attracting the evil eye (malocchio?).

[Carol]

Youa speaka de Italiano. Mea speaka de Engleesh

[David]

Lu sicilianu, not Italian, really. "Italian" is really Tuscan, a dialect that is taught in school as the official language of the Italian state. Sardinian, Sicilian, Veneziano, Furlan, among others, are really separate languages.

Here are some examples of the differences, from Wikipedia:

Sicilian phrase = Italian translation (English translation)

* Fàciri na bedda fiùra = fare una bella figura (to make a good impression)
* Vinu = vino (wine)
* òmu = uomo (man)
* fìmmina = donna (woman)
* dabbanna = l'altra parte (The other side)
* docu = lì (There)
* vussìa = Lei (you -polite form-)
* Accura! = Stai attento! (Be careful!)
* Iddu = him/he
* Idda = her/she
* Cu paja prima, pistia li pisci fitusi = chi paga prima, mangia il pesce puzzolente = he who pays before seeing the goods gets cheated.

A more concrete translation of the last one is "He who pays in advance, eats the rotten fish."

[Carol]

How much Latin, other than the church, is used in modern Italy? Is Latin Homogenized or bastardized?