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Veronica, I've been away for a while and am so happy I found this article. I've really enjoyed seeing your art. My favorites are the staircase - where those step look like ragged stone leading to something wonderful. It makes me feel like I am underwater heading to the surface. I LOVE the "walking in the rainy city" image. The shiny road surface is just fabulous. I think you have great talent and I am wondering if you still paint.

Katie Dalrymple-Hamilton, in her article Exploring the rich colour palette of Morocco, for the Exceptional Travel Ltd. website Feb. 19, 2024, associates certain colors with Moroccan cities, Moroccan Islam, Moroccan markets and Moroccan nature.

For example, the above-mentioned article considers the color blue that characterizes Chefchaoun as the blue city in the Rif Mountains. It describes the color blue as a peaceful, spiritual, tranquil symbol.

The aforementioned author explains blue-washed walls as encouraging cooler interiors even during the hottest summers and as establishing itself as a mosquito repellent.

Wouldn't blue mirror doors and frames be worth it inside not only for their beauty but also for their working against biting, blood-sucking, disease-transmitting mosquitoes

Katie Dalrymple-Hamilton, in her online article Exploring the rich colour palette of Morocco, for the Exceptional Travel Ltd. site Feb. 19, 2024, associates certain colors with Moroccan cities, Moroccan Islam, Moroccan markets and Moroccan nature.

The above-mentioned article considers among color-associated cities Chefchaoun of the Rif Mountains. It describes that mountain city as "the blue city" of blue-washed buildings. it interprets blue as symbolizing peace, spirituality and tranquility.

The aforementioned author mentions that, according to Moroccan culture, blue might keep house interiors cool even during the hottest summers and repel mosquitoes.

Wouldn't blue-washed walls and blue-painted mirror doors and frames be worth it just as a mosquito repellant?

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Gruit, advises us that "We need to be clear, ale was made in private homes, often by the wife of the household, and much depended upon what herbs were available to her."

How, when, where, who and why did the wife get all her ale-making knowledge from?

(Might ale-making -- ;-d -- have been part of her dowry?)

Your comment immediately below, on Jun 26, 2018, intrigues me.

Bird sentients -- such as the bluebird sentient making music while I made the yard more manageable with all its chestnut, elm, locust, maple, walnut and willow leaves and all its pine needles and all its willow berries this past weekend ;-D -- matter to me.

Might you know what birds from "warmer countries" migrate to your South Coast?

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

Dare I ask you to second-guess -- with no blasphemy intended -- Jesus Christ that He knew about the ultimate death of our Sun and in fact all things universal when He so touchingly promised us to be with us always, even until world's end?

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

Your answer ends with the description of "there is still landfill for some waste or incineration to generate energy."

Is landfill waste left as such or is it energy-generating?

Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my observations and questions about such a timeless, timely wizzley.

It's so appropriate, elucidating, welcoming these event- and season-relevant wizzlies, such as about Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Your answer nine boxes down below mentions that "I have to admit - it's a turkey. But Thanksgiving is not a big dela in Europe. Most people are not really aware of it."

Canada and the United States each observe, on different dates, a thanksgiving.

What would you guess or know as drinks and foods for those few European welcomers of a Thanksgiving Day?

Fairy tales can be a bit more like horror stories! I'd never really thought about the role the woods plays in these tales. It's a place to dispose of unwanted things / people.

Yes, we have similar materials.

Yes. It's stale water. It's hard to keep it safe for weeks in barrells. Beer with alcohol is safer.

Exploring the rich colour palette of Morocco, by Katie Dalrymple-Hamilton, appears as the online article for Feb. 19, 2024, on the Exceptional Travel Ltd website.

Are you familiar with its content?

Your concern -- that "who would clean up after us?" -- four boxes immediately below, on Mar 11, 2013, causes me to consider "grown-up folk" ways.

My experience as attendee, co-hostess, hostess leads me to look at such fun, grown-ups-adapted game parties as doable, without dealing with overwhelming post-fun cleanup, in two ways.

One involves Halloween-decorated recycling and trash containers for during-the-event, end-of-event clean-up. The other involves participants some incentive for at least some if not all attendees to implement some end-event clean-up.

Might that not work, particularly if obvious recyclable and obvious trash make up most of the fun event?

They are supposed to separate rubbish into categories according to how it is to be recycled, but there is still landfill for some waste or incineration to generate energy.