pigeon of the week

pigeon contemplates the great outdoors.

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civic improvement--garden

the horse watering trough in st.james park, after a good scrubbing by the rude hands of torontos parks and recreation staff to remove some of the lichen growing on it.

“But for him who may live to see it, there shall be a wilder beauty than any he has planned. Nature, hke a shy wood-nymph, shall steal softly back on summer nights to the silent domain, shading with tenderest pencUlings of brown and grey the ripened stone, scattering wood-violets in the grassy alleys and wreathing in vine and ivy the trellised arbour, painting with cloudy crusts of crumbly gold the long balustrades, inlaying the cornices with lines of emerald moss, planting Uttle ferns within the fountain basin and tiny patches of green velvet upon the Sea-God's shoulder."

As the years pass by and no rude hand di,sturbs the traces of her presence, Nature becomes more daring. Flower-spangled tapestries of woven tendrils faU from the terrace, strange fleecy mottlings of silver-grey and saffron and orange and greeny-gold make the wall a medley more beautiful than broidered hangings or than painted pictures, the niches are curtained with creepers, the pool is choked with water-plants, blossoming weeds are in every crevice,”

Excerpt From: Sitwell, George Reresby, Sir, 1860-1943. “An essay on the making of gardens; being a study of old Italian gardens, of the nature of beauty, and the principles involved in garden design.” London, J. Murray, 1909. iBooks.

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slanteyed--dumbeblonde

 

a person who works for the landlord is at one of the properties talking to four of the tenants. she brings up the topic of female blondes, specifically the one on a well known game show who turns letters on a board, she mentioned how they were talking on the show about how the blonde female turning the letters had beaten out so many other applicants for the job and how the reason she got the job is how well she can do it when it is because she is a sexy white blonde, while if it was an asian turning the letters round wouldnt be made anything more than it is, it is something anyone could do.

she says how being an asian-canadian married to a blonde caucasian-canadian they will often talk about that sort of thing at home, and sometimes with her family but rarely with his family who all have an issue with that racial stuff.

a few weeks after that incident one of the tenants calls the land lords office and the employee who had been talking about vanna white answers. "oh we are understaffed so we take the receptionists place when she goes for lunch rather than have the answering machine turned on." she says.

the tenant says he is returning a call from another employee and if she is available to talk to him, the first employee says she will forward him to her phone and then disconnects him. he calls back and she's laughing when she answers the phone saying these things (phones) are more complicated than people think they are and then on the second try connects him to the person he wants to talk to. the first thing that comes to his mind about her not knowing how to forward a call, were her comments on dumb blondes several weeks earlier, that and secondly they would be better off with the answering machine.

 

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walled garden

“Del.

Yond is the Cardinall's window: This fortification

Grew from the ruines of an auncient Abbey:

And to yond side of the riuer, lies a wall

(Peece of a Cloyster) which in my opinion

Giues the best Eccho, that you euer heard;

So hollow, and so dismall, and withall

So plaine in the destinction of our words,

That many have supposde it is a Spirit

That answeres.”

 

Excerpt From: Webster, John. “The Duchess of Malfi.” Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University, 1623. iBooks.

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roygbiv

green lichen growing on the black paint of the water-trough in the garden of st.james.

 

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