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Thank you for your comment below, on Apr 20, 2024, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Apr 19, 2024.

Queen Noor of Jordan has Christian Science and Episcopalianism in her birth-family background. She maintains her Islam conversion.

Were she Catholic, would she want a Church-consecrated burial site waiting for her?

Thank you for your comment below, on Dec. 20, 2023, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Dec. 19, 2023.

Do British-Isles-ers and British-Isles businesses on their respective lawns do sprinkler spraying?

The last sentence to your second subheading, Frances Brundage, amazes me. That sentence avers that "she wasn't valued in her homeland, the USA, until she achieved success in Germany."

Her lifespan (Oct. 31, 1854-Jan. 27, 1932) correlates with the ascendancy of Prussian militarism and the invasion of Austrian nazism.

Is there a German artistic trend that impressed Unitedstatesians such that it influenced their imaging Frances Brundage more lucratively, more respectfully?

The first subheading, Wall clocks featuring Ireland's stunning landscapes, alerts us to Irish Killarney Mountains and to Irish coastal wall clock.

The two above themes are astutely attractive to wide numbers of Ireland appreciators.

So it's curiosity, not disappointment about something else, that impels me to question the following: Would there be any other landscape-themed clocks?

Have you read among the recentest wizzlies the wizzley Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards by Tolovaj?

Tolovaj includes an intriguing image by Swedish artist Jenny Nystrom of Swedish Easter, which involves Easter eggs and Easter spins on Christmas trees and Halloween witches.

It would be such fun to work your wonderful games into the Halloween wending in and out of Easter celebrations, wouldn't it?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Nine styles are equally resonant even as Bouret assumes an imperceptible lead.

The tenth style bears such a thematic difference from the others. Can you guess which one? It's number 9, Jenny Nystrom.

The Nystrom image is unsettling in the way that two of three witches look directly at the viewer! It's unexpected even as it is so effectively implemented.

Was Nystrom known for working such unsettling elements of Swedish culture into her art?

Maybe, but I don't think you need French blood to enjoy Bouret's designs;)

I have looked up the meanings. Benwisken means haystack peak, because of its pointed summit. Ben bulben means peak of the jaw. It's shape suggests a jaw or beak.

Ben means mountain or hills, but my knowledge of Gaelic names does not extend so far

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Rooted in time, advises us of Ben Bulben and Ben Wisken.

What do the two names mean in English?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

The Germaine Bouret design also appeals to me.

Your account of the egg-ly appearances assured by "religion, magic, natural cycles, and plain child's play" appeals to me too. It clears the confusion that I couldn't cross through and beyond 'cause I considered only one cause, not four ;-D!

Bouret style is most resonant with me -- peut-être un tout petit peu parce que je suis d'ascendance française, non? ;-D -- even as the other designs invite me to imagine their origins and their relevance.

The ascendancy is the upper class who dominate political and economic life. An ascendancy is not a democratic system. While there may be elected parliaments only a privileged few have a vote.

Interesting observation! Eggs, falling from the bell, somehow being produced inside, by pure boy's action, are artist's idea to fuse religion, magic, natural cycles, and plain child's play in one image. I believe she created a spectacular Easter postcard. You simply can't look at it an not feel a thing, right?

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Rooted in time, advises us that "The poet William Butler Yeats was a native of that area, though unlike my impoverished forebears he was from a wealthy ascendancy family."

What is an "ascendancy" family?

That first in-text image of the bell-ringing boy (with the double meaning of getting reprimanded) with the two prank-responding girls charms me.

But where do the eggs come from?

May all the eggs hatch like those from which the three chicks move around the petit minou mignon, petite minette mignone ("little [male] kitty charming," "little [female] kitty charming" literally) sentients!