Collecting Elephants

Royal Court Jesters

When is a white elephant a white elephant that's not a white elephant?  When they're literally white elephants, a pair given as a gift you never wanted...but now they've grown on you.  It's even given rise to a fascination of pachyderms of all shapes, sizes, and colors, not just white.

Elephant at Grasmere Zoo in Nashville

Daily Something #13: Words in a Box

For those of you who have been following my interest in poetry, here is a site that will allow you to experience words on a whole new level.  MyKu World challenges you to experiment with saying a lot in the context of four lines and a box.  Subjects change and conversations abound in a unique play with words.   You can even create your own nom de plume!  (See if you can discover mine.)

MYKU World

In the Tunnel

Sometimes the bumps are worth remembering.

Four & 4: Lining Up

First

Second

Third

Fourth

Daily Something #12: Literature on the Silver Screen

A good book doesn't necessarily translate into a good movie because each is a result of a totally separate creative process.  Water for Elephants represents a successful transition from page to film.  However, regardless of whether or not you've read the book, the movie is worth seeing. Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Jacob is a powerful rendition of a character you will not forget.

    

Cars

Reflection

On the Door

Light on White

Last night I went on a photography field trip and discovered some neat things to photograph at the drag strip at Beech Bend.  

Burning Rubber

  

Moving Red

Green, But Not From Envy

Beginning

Thought I would start a new category related to colors.  This is the first photograph for the color green.  I took it at Chaney's Dairy Barn a few days ago.  This corn field will be the one that is used for the corn maze in the fall.

Daily Something #11: The Discovery of Poetry and Three Reads of The Eve of St. Agnes

In chapter three of The Discovery of Poetry, Frances Mayes discusses the various concepts of images in poetry.  At the end of each of her chapters, she includes various poems that relate to the theme of the chapter.  For the most part, I haven't been overwhelmed with her selections, until I got to  a poem called The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats.  It was published in 1820 and is a narrative poem that takes place in a castle during the Middle Ages.  Madeline, one of the main characters, is convinced that she will see a vision of her future husband in a dream.  I was a bit overwhelmed after my first reading and ended up reading it two more times.  However, I can now say, I have a better appreciation for what was accomplished in Keats' arrangement of words. This poem is considered to be amongst his best.  I'm glad I gave it a chance.

The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
Oral Interpretation of The Eve of St. Agnes
Background and Analysis of The Eve of St. Agnes