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The Tetrarch: England's Spotted Wonder

It's interesting that Tetrarch looked black-spotted chestnut when young and white-spotted gray when older.

It's a natural progression when one mulls that black represents all colors in one place and white no colors in that place, correct?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk

Thank you!

So English Wiktionary correctly identifies carnedd with barrow but incorrectly with all else!

But is it possible that Carnedd Ridge invokes handle- or hoof-like profiles?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk

The first paragraph to the seventh symbol, Gold, associates that metal with durability (albeit self-lifed), success and wealth even as the second paragraph associates it -- through spending habits? -- with possible insecurity and unpredictability.

Does the fairy tale equate Jack and his mother's spending habits with poor planning or with poverty-driven unpaid bills?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

Restoration at Kew Gardens: the temperate house

The last sentence in the first paragraph to the first subheading, The Temperate House, describes Kew Gardens as perhaps "the only botanical garden with its own police force, constables who deal with minor infringements and who perform a patrol and ranger service, but who are rarely called to use their powers."

Does that police force carry arms?

Is there 24/7 police coverage?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style

The third paragraph to the third subheading, Projected image of a sensory garden, considers that "The plants selected for the garden will include many that will attract butterflies and bees."

Sensory gardens get my admiration and respect for the hard work going into them and the human and sentient consequences going through them.

A sensory garden for butterflies by day simultaneously sometimes functions by night as a firefly, moon, moth garden by night.

The following information from Ben Pfeiffer's Firefly conservation & research site may be helpful for such a day- and night-sensory garden:

Grasses
Big sacaton (Sporobolus wrightii)
Deer grass (Muhlenbergia rigens)
Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides)
Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)
Inland sea oats or Broadleaf uniola (Chasmanthium latifolium)
Lindheimer muhly (Muhlenbergia linheimeri)
Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Vine mesquite (Hopia obtusa)
Virginia wildrye (Elymus virginicus)

Forbs
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Frogfruit (phlya nodiflora)
Frostweed (Verbesina virginica)
Goldenrod (Solidago altissima)
Late boneset (Eupatorium serotinum)
Lindheimer senna (Senna lindheimeriana)
River fern (Thelypteris ovata var. lindheimeri)
Tall aster/Spiny aster (Aster praealtus and Aster Spinosa)

Vines
Alamo vine (Merremia dissecta)
Dewberry (Rubus trivialis)
Morning glory (Lpomoea sp.)
Purple leatherflower (Clematis pitcheri)

Trees and Woody Plants
American Elder (Sambucus canadensis)
Bur (Quercus macrocarpa), Chinquapin (Quercus muehlenbergii), Live (Quercus virginiana), Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii)
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Cottonwood (Populus sp.)
Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Dogwood (Cornus drummondii)
Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor)
Elm (Ulmus sp.)
Goldenball Leadtree (Leucaena retusa)
Green, Mexican, Velvet ash (Fraxinus sp.)
Hackberry (Celtis sp.)
Little Walnut (Juglans microcarpa)
Mexican Buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa)
Pecan (Carya illinionensis)
Soapberry (Sapindus saponaria)
Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Wafer Ash (Ptelea trifoliata)

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

Kentucky Derby History: Upset Winners and Unexpected Losers

The third paragraph to the sixth long-shot, Canonero II, 1971, advises us that "As a stallion, he did not get quality mares and had little opportunity to reproduce his brilliance, and was sent back to Venezuela."

Is it known why Canonero II lacked "quality mares"?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

The Mystery of Evil

The last paragraph to the last subheading, Humanity's role, contains indeed "a grim tale."

Good and healing perhaps may be achieved somewhat in the perpetrators being accountable. They also may be achieved by the undeserving casualties being remembered personally if not also professionally through books, memorials, projects in their names.

For example, good against and healing from crucifixion perhaps occur every time that we remember Jesus Christ, Joseph and Our Lady Mary.

Would that not be what the apostles and the disciples and the followers all worked out so that we would know and love the Holy Family as they did?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs

It is a standard beer glass, nothing special about it.

frankbeswick, Mar 12, 2024

The Shrine that Survived the Reformation

By accident. We were holidaying in rural South Wales and it was on a local farm.

frankbeswick, Mar 12, 2024

The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs

Thank you for your comment April 6, 2023, in answer to my previous question April 5, 2023.

English Wikipedia carries the article Boddingtons Bitter. It displays that beer in a glass alongside a can.

That glass looks distinctive, with a bulge perhaps one-third down from the rim, two-thirds up from the bottom.

Might that glass be specific to Boddingtons bitter or might it just be a bar-style glass for any drink?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

The Shrine that Survived the Reformation

Thank you!

Perhaps that well no longer exists even as it functioned as an unimportant, "very small well."

Might it become neglected and overgrown? In such case, should it be decommissioned or permitted to merge slowly with the surrounding environment?

(It would be interesting to know how you knew about that well. By accident?)

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style

The first paragraph to the first subheading, Capitalising on a natural love of the land, advises us that "The percentage of students indigenous to this land can vary from around 75% - 85% depending on how people travel."

How does "how people travel" manifest itself?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk

The sixth symbol, Oven, configures hellish, regressive, womb-like associations.

Is it possible that in a way it joins your transformational symbols?

What moves in one way, such as raw flour or raw meat, moves out another way respectively as
(my ;-D Wizzley recipe for) Czech chestnut cake or as Thanksgiving turkey, correct?

DerdriuMarriner, Mar 12, 2024

The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk

Spelling error, probably thevspell checker. In the previous response the word there is wronglynwritten as beer. Sorry.

frankbeswick, Mar 12, 2024

The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk

Carnedd is a kind of hill, I do not think that beer is anything other than a lettrer group. Au is a plural suffix.

frankbeswick, Mar 12, 2024

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