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Marianne Stokes
The computer crashed before I could continue with my observation and question regarding Marianne and Helen?
Is it possible that Helene cared so much about the younger Marianne's personal and professional development that she deliberately ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
Full Day Safari in Bandhavgarh
The computer crashed before I could continue with my observation and question regarding afternoon and dusk rides?
Is the afternoon to dusk timespan accommodating one timepan or might it represent a number of start times?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
An insect friendly garden
Thank you!
I'll see if I can find oil of water hyacinth oil here. Perhaps it will work against these unbelievably gigantic mosquitoes that fly particularly into my eyes and ears and leave such giant welts that I have bandaids on my forehead and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Glass slippers and iron shoes lack such verisimilitude (big word from my university days in France!) that I mull why they nestled into fairy tales.
What would be the real-life equivalents of something that suggests poshness, as in the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The Curb your enthusiasm episode that got my attention because of the character Larry leaving quite a tip that I consider unexpected from him continues to interest me in the color-related questions that it inspires.
Previously, I mentioned that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/30/2023
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