While searching for a photo that meant PATTERNS to me today, here are the other pictures I shot …
Variations on a lily theme
PRICKLY BALL
PROMENADE
#1 THE ORIGAMI CALENDAR CHALLENGE – THE CRANES, THE CRANES
Woke up this morning and thought I had been magically transported to Fantasy Island. Now all I have to do is wait for my sausage like fingers to wake up and become dexterous to complete this complicated folding process. Right now I at this point …
Will keep you updated throughout the day.
Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy folding the two mini-cranes attached to the wing and tail. Origami demands thin elegant fingers for tiny folding.
#2 THE MENSA PUZZLE CALENDAR – ANIMAL CROSSWORDS
I actually gave you the first three animals in position. The rest will be a lot of trial and error and erasures.
Also coming up today…
In a separate post I’ll be continuing my spring tour of SLAM. Part Three - Calder and More!
If you want to know who we are,
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On many a vase and jar -
On many a screen and fan,
We figure in lively paint:
Our attitude’s queer and quaint -
You’re wrong if you think it ain’t, Oh … oh!
We are gentlemen of Japan …………….
Ever since I started working on today’s origami challenge that song has been worming its way from ear to ear … around and about … OK … hasn’t everyone sung Gilbert and Sullivan at some point in their life‽
But getting back from Titipu … and down to today’s business at hand …
#1 THE ORIGAMI CALENDAR CHALLENGE – JAPANESE GENTLEMAN
INTERLUDE:
Miya sama, miya sama,
On n’m-ma no maye ni
Pira-Pira suru no wa
Nan gia na
Toko tonyare tonyare na?
#2 THE MENSA PUZZLE CALENDAR – PLACE YOUR BETS
I bet everyone is able to get eight out of eight on today’s puzzle.
And the answers are SHOWOFF, DARWIN, PARK PLACE, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, NO SHOW, WINSTON CHURCHILL, FIREPLACE and SHOWTIME.
#3 THE PAGE-A-DAY PUZZLE CALENDAR – PHONETIC FRENZY
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had speech balloons floating around our heads?
Now, get ready to GROAN!
BEE YAWN DAIRY SAUNA BUILD OUT
INN KNOW CENT TON TILL PERU FEN GILL TEA
EWE HALF THE WRITE TOO REAM MANES EYE LENT
That might be the last time Phonetic Frenzy appears in the Daily Calendar Challenge.
PIT … PITTER … PAT!
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated—that is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity.
Would you believe it has been raining continuously for the past 24 hours!
So I decided to talk about how I spent Wednesday in the park. Naturally, ”the park” in Saint Louis usually means Forest Park which is the largest of the 111 parks within the city’s boundaries. If you want to include the parks in Saint Louis County, you’d have to add 64 more. So in all, there are 175 parks within the land bordered by the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. But I usually just visit two or three.
Anyway, on Wednesday I went to Forest Park to celebrate the birthday of my oldest friend, Mr. Bill. He’s not really my oldest friend age-wise, it’s just that we’ve been friends for over forty continuous years and we live in opposites ends of the metropolitan area. I live in the north county, and he lives in the south city. So Forest Park, being in the middle, is a convenient place to meet. It’s also the sight of the Boathouse Restaurant.
The Boathouse is located on the largest of the park’s chain of lakes.
That allowed us to watch this gorgeous fellow as he/she fished for his/her lunch.
If you’re wondering, I had fish and chips for lunch, too.
After lunch we strolled the park taking in the masses of blooming flowers.
We also decide to take advantage of the Great Art Free Every Day at the Saint Louis Art Museum. But that will have to wait for my next post.
To be continued …
Ok, so what is CULTURE? I could probably fill this page with all the recorded definitions of culture and still not give you a common definition on which we would all agree.
I guess for me culture is sharing and learning about all best that man has achieved … past, present and future. But to show it in one photograph? IMPOSSIBLE! But there is one item I alway visit the Saint Louis Art Museum. It’s a Chinese sculpture of a horse probably dating back to an era when man had just domesticated the beast. I think that qualifies as culture.
This is my most recent photo of the sculpture that I made two days ago.
Boy, this is the latest I’ve ever posted the Daily Calendar Challenge. And it’s all because of the origami calendar!
#1 THE ORIGAMI CALENDAR CHALLENGE – THE COIN PURSE
My first attempt …
Then my second try on a scrap calendar page…
And finally the good one …
I worked so hard on this one it deserves a close-up!
#2 THE MENSA PUZZLE CALENDAR – THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST
Got them … check back for answers tomorrow!
#3 THE PAGE-A-DAY PUZZLE CALENDAR – DETAILS “The Christening Feast” by Jan Steen
THE ANSWERS
Since puzzles like this from the Mensa and Page-A-day Calendars are nearly impossible to solve online, I will be excluding them in future Calendar Challenges. I will however still be attempting to solve them myself every morning. OK, it also gives me an out with math puzzles.
Due to the arrival of digital photography, I shoot a lot of photos I would have never shot in the days of 35mm film. Thankfully, most of these will find their way into the trash basket of my computer. One or two might become A TUESDAY MORNING WHAT’S IT? Then you can send it to the trash basket.
Actually this is the remains of what was once a huge yew that had a diameter of 8-feet. Do you know how long I’ve wanted to use a huge yew in a sentence?
Tuesday morning laugh: spell check wants to change yew to you.
WORTHLESS WHAT’S IT FACTOID: The yew is a coniferous tree that has red berrylike fruits, and most parts of which are highly poisonous. Yews are linked with folklore and superstition and can live to a great age; the timber is used in cabinetmaking and (formerly) to make longbows.
Apr 20
This gallery contains 9 photos.
Friday, I really was having a dilemma trying to decide on which photo to use for the Weekly Photo Challenge. And that was after I had spent a half day walking around town taking pictures of every UP thing I could envision. So in a waste not/want not mood, I present a gallery of … THE OTHER WEEKLY PHOTO OPTIONS […]
#1 THE ORIGAMI CALENDAR CHALLENGE – THE CARRIER BIRD
Looks fairly simple, doesn’t it?
I got it folded, but it was the most difficult thing I’ve worked on yet. Why …….?
Look at those Mickey Mouse sized stubby fingers next to the finished piece!
#2 THE MENSA PUZZLE CALENDAR – INSERT AND ADD
This one’s not easy, but it can be solved. One should be visible right away.
ANSWER
OK, I could not figure out #1.
It was firetrap.
#3 THE PAGE-A-DAY PUZZLE CALENDAR – ALPHAMETICS
OK, C equals 9 and E equals 8 — you only have to figure out eight more letter values! But with head feeling twice its normal size due to my spring allergies, my brain refuses to work with numbers. I’ll come back later today when the wheezing and sneezing lets up a bit.
OK, I was not able to concentrate enough to figure this one out today.
#1 THE ORIGAMI CALENDAR CHALLENGE – THE BLINTZ BOX
Starting with the Blintz Base I folded on Saturday, 
I created …
And it’s just the right size for holding a serving of black jelly beans!
#2 THE MENSA PUZZLE CALENDAR – MAGIC MATH SQUARE
Oh, give me a break! You don’t start a Monday with a math puzzle! Especially one that needs the entire backside of the calendar page to explain.
#3 THE PAGE-A-DAY CALENDAR – SMILEY FACE HILDATO
OMG, just waiting for my coffee to get done, I completed half the puzzle.
HINT in solving … the squares with the STAR must contain either 18, 36 or 69.
And now the answers …
The Mensa Magic Square – all rows must add up to 30
11 2 17
16 10 4
3 18 9
The Page-a-Day Calendar
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