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sister_luck) wrote2015-01-06 05:26 pm
sister_luck) wrote2015-01-06 05:26 pm
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Heronic.
That word in the subject line can't be the correct adjective, but I am keeping it as it is.
My students make up words all the time (knowledgement, degrandable, crowfunding, detaily) so I want some of the neologicalizing goodness.
Under the cut, you will find pictures from our New Year's Day Walk which was a particularly short one this year because one of us was still suffering from a really nasty cold - which manifested on Christmas Eve which is that person's birthday, too. So, not a happy holiday for him.
So we went on a really really short round in the neighbourhood.
This is the pond where the kingfisher resides - you can spot it most days sitting somewhere on the lower branches of the large weeping willow. I didn't see it on New Year's Day - sometimes it is busy elsewhere, looking for fish in the nearby stream.
But the resident heron was around - not the same one as in the last heron pictures - that is one that lives by the series of ponds a little further downstream.
You might be able to glimpse it in the first picture up in the willow. Here is a closer look: It seemed a bit grumpy:
Walking around the pond, I took a picture from another angle:
Then the bird had enough and left:
My students make up words all the time (knowledgement, degrandable, crowfunding, detaily) so I want some of the neologicalizing goodness.
Under the cut, you will find pictures from our New Year's Day Walk which was a particularly short one this year because one of us was still suffering from a really nasty cold - which manifested on Christmas Eve which is that person's birthday, too. So, not a happy holiday for him.
So we went on a really really short round in the neighbourhood.
This is the pond where the kingfisher resides - you can spot it most days sitting somewhere on the lower branches of the large weeping willow. I didn't see it on New Year's Day - sometimes it is busy elsewhere, looking for fish in the nearby stream.
But the resident heron was around - not the same one as in the last heron pictures - that is one that lives by the series of ponds a little further downstream.
You might be able to glimpse it in the first picture up in the willow. Here is a closer look: It seemed a bit grumpy:
Walking around the pond, I took a picture from another angle:
Then the bird had enough and left:
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Welcome!
Here is the heron's relative - even more photogenic I think.
Detaily reminded my of Slayerspeak - the English spoken by Buffy and her friends, but in actual fact I think it was just an attempt at coming up with an adverbial form of detailed.