"Y" is for...

~ Y is for Yard Art ~

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"X" is for...

~ X is for xanthic ~
(of or pertaining to a yellow or yellowish color)

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"W" is for...

~ W is for wetlands ~

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Summertime

No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell

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"V" is for...

~ V is for Visitor ~

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Words of 'Whiskey'

It's Wednesday again, and that means its time for Bermuda Onion's Wondrous Words Wednesday; a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading throughout the previous week.

My words this week all come from T.C.Boyles' short stories, "If the River Was Whiskey", but each from a different tale;

troglodyte n. : A cave man or cave dweller.
"He stood over the fallen buck, grinning like a troglodyte with his prey, then bent to catch the thing by its antlers..." (from The Hat, pg 96)

obloquy n. :censure, blame or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, esp. by numerous persons or by the general public
"She'd gone into a Carmelite nunnery after the obloquy of high school and the unrequited love she bore for Harvey... " (from The Little Chill pg 118)

And the following is the title of one short story:

Me Cago en la Leche Span. :a shorter way of saying "me cago en la leche de la puta que te date la luz", meaning "i shit in the milk of the whore that bore you," a very common insult in Spain (This definition was found courtesy of UrbanDictionary.com)
(pg 108-117)

And, that's all for me this week, folks; What about YOU?? What Wondrous Words have you encountered this week??

*All definitions are garnered from The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Edition, unless otherwise noted.

A Short Stop

Here we are on Tuesday again, and this week in RaiderGirl's


"Where is reading taking you this day?"

I'm still making my way thru Boyle's short-story collection, as I haven't been reading a lot this week, so I've chosen a selection from one of my favorites read, thus far;

"Big Timber was a collection of maybe a hundred widely scattered cabins atop a broad-beamed peak in the southern Sierras. The cabins belonged to summer people from L.A. and San Diego, to cross-country skiers, gynecologists, talent agents, ad men, drunks, and nature lovers, for the most part, and to twenty-seven hard-core anti-social types who call the place home year-round. I was one of this latter group." ~ The Hat ("If the River Was Whiskey") by T.C.Boyle [pg. 93]

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Nature's Places

And as the seasons come and go,
here's something you might like to know ...
there are fairies everywhere under bushes, in the air,
playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day.
So listen, touch, and look around -- in the air and on the ground.
And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.
~Author Unknown

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