I took today's Look Up photo standing outside my employer's back door, which opens onto a narrow walkway edged by an 8-foot high brick wall at the top of which is a small strip of wild garden (the house is cut into a hillside). The bluebells were glorious - highlighted by the sun and waving in today's welcome breeze.
From time to time, I like to baffle city-born Jamie with straight-faced explanations of nature, most of which are true, but some of which are not. These include there only being 5 clouds which encircle the world, occasionally breaking up into smaller pieces of cloud but still being part of a greater whole, and my most recent explanation of the blue haze you see at roadsides when banks and verges are covered in bluebells. I insisted, for days, that you can't look directly at a bluebell. It's an optical illusion, like a perception filter, which means your eyes slide right off it and you only take in the group of flowers (like a herd of zebra) but you can never see a single flower, except in the very periphery of your vision.
He didn't believe me. I don't know why I do this, but I get massive kicks from it. I don't think many people get my sense of humour.
3 comments:
Hee hee! When I read the blog title, I was thinking - Wow, really, I didn't know that!
Excellent! I love playing that game too, it's hard not to when you've found someone who is completely willing to believe you... Of course, I was going to think of an example to share with you, but everybody knows that the ethernet on laptops interferes with short term memory, so...
That's a genius habit, and I cna only imagine Lloyd finding things like that completely delightful. Sadly I'm not very inventive, but if you don't mind, I might have to nick the cloud one. He does love clouds:-) xxx
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