🐮Eight years ago

today, there was a male bullfinch in our garden

🦆Village Life

🐤Village Life

 

🧡Eight years ago today

 

Intermission

 

Today in the garden

Five years ago today

Seven Years Ago,

in the garden, this honeybee

was walking all over a bee orchid:

 

Five years ago,

on the village duck-pond...

Five years ago,

on the village duck-pond, there were ducklings (as there are this year :-)

Happy Valentines Day

A limit of Empiricism

I decide to observe the world in a scientific way.
I photograph the duck-pond, and process the photo digitally.
Sunlit willows are being reflected in the shadows of other willows,
and so I discover that the world is made of quantum-mechanical string:

Merry Custard (and a Happy New Year ;-)

(yesterday was the shortest day)

Looking back to what was once new, "Custard" :

The Village Duck-Pond, Winking

Living inside a rainbow!

 

Monochrome Monday

The same cat, who I used to meet

when out walking around the village

Sleepy Sunday

 Another photo from google+

SepiaCaturday

Have a Harrowing Halloween!!

Three years ago today,

a honeybee was contemplating the cosmos

Four years ago,

it was Trump and Mrs. Clinton, slugging it out. The general feeling over here was that Mrs. Clinton was a shoo-in. Indeed, her supporters called her "the only qualified candidate." But while she was certainly the most experienced candidate, I wondered at the time whether her experience would disqualify her, in the minds of a lot of the voters. Would they not feel that her two terms in the East Wing meant that her standing for president went against the spirit of the Constitution (amendment 22)?

Suppose that it had been Mr. Clinton in the East Wing for eight years, and that he had won against Trump (suppose that Mrs. Clinton only lost because she was a woman). If Mr. Clinton went on to win a second term, what would stop him divorcing Hilary at the end of his second term and marrying someone who became president for two terms? What would stop him continuing to remarry people who became president for two terms? The voters would: they would surely regard it as unconstitutional for him to stay indefinitely in the White House (as the traditional head of the presidential household).

As it is, of course, Trump won. "Will the same thing happen again this time?" the liberal elite wonder. I don't see how it could: neither Mr. nor Mrs. Biden have been president before. Nevertheless, if the liberal elite of America do not even know how America thinks about the unity of married couples, then how qualified could any of them be to embody America as its necessarily short-term president?