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Snow White and Its Symbols
The symbols 9 and 10, Shoes and Iron, caused me to consider another fairy tale's possibly similar symbolism albeit with different motives and consequences.
It's the glass slippers in Cinderella.
Online sources list dancing and running in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
Marianne Stokes
The third paragraph to your fourth fact, Paris, mentions the acquaintance of Marianne Stokes with Helene Schjerfbeck. It notes that the latter "befriended" the former.
Was their interaction lastingly and predominantly personal? Was it the visit ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
Full Day Safari in Bandhavgarh
The second sentence in the third paragraph to your first subheading, Bandhavgarh National Park associates rides with early morning, the onset of dawn and from afternoon till dusk.
What time is early morning? What time is the afternoon ride? ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
Marianne Stokes
Your fourth fact, Paris, mentions Jules Bastien-Lepage among the painters from whom Marianne Stokes learned most during her séjour français.
I see the influence in her economy depicting facial features and in her rendition of how cloth falls ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/29/2023
Full Day Safari in Bandhavgarh
I like the idea of earlier entry. You get to the animals before the noisy other people scare them into the bushes.
blackspanielgallery, on 08/29/2023
Full Day Safari in Bandhavgarh
The third and fourth sentences in your first, introductory paragraph informs us that Bandhavgarh National Park "is also home to ancient relics some of which can be visited on a tiger safari. These are more than two thousand years old built by ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/29/2023
An insect friendly garden
I have heard that oil of water hyacinth works as a deterrent.
When up at Loch Torridon many years ago with my son we saw a swarm approaching, so I grabbed my son and quickly deposited him in the tent and zipped it. I then finished unpacking, ...
frankbeswick, on 08/29/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The computer crashed, perhaps because it does not deem itself a Monday morning-, afternoon- or evening-loving worker!
So here goes another attempt to finish my splash-painted chair- and table-related observation and question inspired by the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
An insect friendly garden
Online sources have awful-looking pictures of highland midge-attacked hands and wrists. They mention a midge repellant spray. They offer nothing in the way of natural repellants or even of what works in the store-bought spray.
Would you know ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The computer -- not a Monday morning or afternoon-loving worker? -- crashed again before I could complete my paint-splashed chair- and table-related observation and question.
What red hues does happy eating desire at home and in eateries?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The computer -- not a Monday morning or afternoon lover? -- crashed before I could enter the complete observation and question about paint-splashed chair and table sides.
The table side over the bench or chair displayed brown-red or red-brown ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The computer crashed before I could continue with the complete observation and question regarding paint-splashed design.
The sides of the table over which the bench or chair is in that episode of Curb your enthusiasm (Cache ta joie, pour les ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
Just now, I'm watching The benadryl brownie episode on the Curb your enthusiasm series with Larry David and (presidential candidate Robert Francis Kennedy Jr's wife) Cheryl Hines.
Larry goes to a restaurant. He's happy enough with the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
Marianne Stokes
The computer crashed -- again! -- before I could enter the third part to my French and German academies-related question.
Is it known which academies Marianne Stokes studied at in Paris?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023
Marianne Stokes
The computer crashed before I could enter a second part to my question about French and German academies respectively admitting and not admitting women.
Did the French academies always admit women who hoped to become artists? If not, when in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/28/2023