Wild Honey
QUEEN BEE
my Italian relatives.
...
Kangaroo Island’s own population of Ligurian bees (the only pure strain
in the world) produces 10,000 kilograms of delectable honey each year.
The bees were imported in 12 hives from the Italian province of Liguria
in the 1880s, and remain protected from other breeds of bee by the
island’s isolation.
...
If you go there, go with me, wild honey
You can do just what you please, wild honey
Yeah, just blowing in the breeze, wild honey
Wild, wild, wild
~ lyric, 'Wild Honey'
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QUEEN BEE
Biopic page: http://aussieladiesofaq.blogspot.com/
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SteveMR200
<NSxbf.10494$Hj2...@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>I will be taking the Aussie Ladies away for a few days to meet some of
>my Italian relatives.
A rivederci, Queen Bee. Say "hi" to the Pope for me. :-)
Obquote:
If you find honey, eat just enough--too much of it,
and you will vomit.
--The Bible, Proverbs 25:16 NIV
--
Steve
The Sanity Inspector
BEEejh"@XCAPSbigpond.net.au> shared with usenet this thought...:
>I will be taking the Aussie Ladies away for a few days to meet some of
>my Italian relatives.
>
> ...
>Kangaroo Island’s own population of Ligurian bees (the only pure strain
>in the world) produces 10,000 kilograms of delectable honey each year.
>The bees were imported in 12 hives from the Italian province of Liguria
>in the 1880s, and remain protected from other breeds of bee by the
>island’s isolation.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/8ph3k
Travel safely!
Obquote:
I like to think of it as the only Anglo-Saxon country with
Mediterranean qualities.
-- John Douglas Pringle, _Australian Accent_, 1958
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam
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David C Kifer
> I will be taking the Aussie Ladies away for a few days to meet some of
> my Italian relatives.
I bet there's a swarm of them!
:-)>
Life is ever
Since man was born,
Licking honey
from a thorn.
--Louis Ginsberg
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
QUEEN BEE
> I bet there's a swarm of them!
> :-)>
AussieLadies Pic : Ligurian Bees on Kangaroo Island
http://tinyurl.com/9atst
...
I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for
moping and droning in.
~Charles Dickens (1812-1870), David Copperfield, ch. 10 [1850] {Mr.
Murdstone}
David C Kifer
> David C Kifer wrote
>
>> I bet there's a swarm of them!
>> :-)>
>
> _____________________
>
> AussieLadies Pic : Ligurian Bees on Kangaroo Island
> http://tinyurl.com/9atst
A great picture, but just what is the iridescent liquid?
Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it.
--Ecclesiasticus 18:11
QUEEN BEE
> A great picture, but just what is the iridescent liquid?
Mmm! Tequila maybe??
...
Sorry, Queen, this Drone prefers to drown in White wine!
:-)>
[Actually, I prefer tequila!]
~David C Kifer in AQ [Aug 6 2004}
I think it was an Aussie version of tequila called rain.
But it reflected a wing, which was nice!
btw there is an American influence on this island of 4000 inhabitants..
In many ways, the island remains just as explorer Matthew Flinders found
it more than 200 hundred years ago. Discovered by English explorer
Matthew Flinders in 1802, Kangaroo Island was visited shortly afterward
by French explorer Nicolas Baudin and first settled by deserters from
English and American whaling ships before official European settlement
in 1836.
~ http://www.clickforaustralia.com/south_australia_kangaroo_island.htm
This to prove it <s>
Aussie Ladies Pic: http://tinyurl.com/9qhar
William C Waterhouse
In article <uVadf.15228$Hj2....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
QUEEN BEE <"QUEEN BEEejh"@XCAPSbigpond.net.au> writes:
> ...
> I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for
> moping and droning in.
> ~Charles Dickens (1812-1870), David Copperfield, ch. 10 [1850] {Mr.
> Murdstone}
It sounds a little different in context:
"I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for
moping and droning in. It is especially so for a young boy of your
disposition, which requires a great deal of correcting; and to which
no greater service can be done than to force it to conform to the
ways of the working world, and to bend it and break it."
"For stubbornness won't do here," said his sister. "What is wants, is,
to be crushed. And crushed it must be. Shall be, too!"
William C. Waterhouse
Penn State
libreria
> QUEEN BEE writes:
>>I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for
>>moping and droning in.
>> ~Charles Dickens (1812-1870), David Copperfield, ch. 10 [1850] {Mr.
>> Murdstone}
> It sounds a little different in context:
>
> "I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for
> moping and droning in. It is especially so for a young boy of your
> disposition, which requires a great deal of correcting; and to which
> no greater service can be done than to force it to conform to the
> ways of the working world, and to bend it and break it."
>
> "For stubbornness won't do here," said his sister. "What is wants, is,
> to be crushed. And crushed it must be. Shall be, too!"
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But *out of context* is much more FUN sometimes, don't you think? ;-)
...
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~ Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Moral of this story: writing is about playing with people's heads.
Reading is about understanding that these people are trying to play with
your head, still enjoying the story, and getting in on the joke.
American writers just haven't tended to play with words like this,
focusing instead on dialect (and Twain was the master of this) or
scathing social commentary (Twain again, with HL Mencken thrown in). [..]
If you want a concrete example, look at how integrate puns and word play
are in the London Times crossword puzzle as opposed to the New York
Times crossword puzzle, and you have the most concrete social and
commercial example of which I speak.
~Zyg Furmaniuk, essay, Playing with Language [2001]
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libreria
Elyse
QUEEN BEE wrote:
> ...
> Kangaroo Island's own population of Ligurian bees (the only pure strain
> in the world) produces 10,000 kilograms of delectable honey each year.
> The bees were imported in 12 hives from the Italian province of Liguria
> in the 1880s, and remain protected from other breeds of bee by the
> island's isolation.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8ph3k
>
> QUEEN BEE
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the
bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
-- Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
~ ~
Elyse
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SteveMR200
<1132684862....@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
>Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but
>the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
> -- Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
>
>~ ~
>Elyse
>________________
Everything is possible for him who believes.
--Jesus, The Bible, Mark 9:23 NIV
--
Steve
QUEEN BEE
> Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the
> bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
> -- Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
Bees are multi-talented! They are even art critics!
...
University of London's Queen Mary college researchers put four paintings
- two of flowers - beneath bees' flight paths, and tracked where they
landed.
The bees landed on the two most floral. Van Gogh's Sunflowers was favourite.
The study, made on three colonies raised in captivity and which had
never seen flowers, was reported in the journal Optics and Laser Technology.
These features are recognised by bees that have never been exposed to
flowers before.
About 11% of approaches to the flower paintings ended with a landing,
compared to just 4% with the other paintings, the study found.
As well as Sunflowers, the team showed the bees Paul Gauguin's A Vase of
Flowers, Patrick Caulfield's Pottery, and Fernand Leger's Still Life
with a Beer Mug.
The bees flew towards the Van Gogh picture 146 times and landed on it 15
times.
A Vase of Flowers produced 81 approaches and 11 landings.
Caulfield's Pottery produced 138 approaches but only four landings.
And Still Life with a Beer Mug attracted bees on 117 occasions, but
again only four landings.
Professor Lars Chittka said: "The results show that the flower paintings
have captured the essence of floral features from a bee's point of view,
and that these features are recognised by bees that have never been
exposed to flowers before.
"Flowers contain all the goods that a bee needs to thrive - pollen and
nectar - and selection has therefore favoured bees with 'aesthetic
preferences' for those flowers which offer the best bonanzas."
A bee's favourite colour is blue, he added, which is associated with
high-nectar flowers.
This could be why the bees were strongly drawn to the blue "Vincent"
signature in Van Gogh's painting, as well as the blue blooms in A Vase
of Flowers, and a light blue square in Still Life with a Beer Mug.
~Art-loving bees prefer Sunflowers
BBC [14 August 2005]
SteveMR200
<1132684862....@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
>Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the
>bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
> -- Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
>
>~ ~
>Elyse
>________________
I just think this horse has a lot of heart. He may
have been down, but he wasn't out. He may have lost
a few, but he didn't let it get to him. I think we
could all learn a lick or two from this little guy.
Oh, and by the way, he doesn't know he's little. He
thinks he's the biggest horse out there. . . . See,
sometimes when the little guy . . . doesn't know he's
a little guy, he can do great big things.
--"Charles Howard" (Jeff Bridges)
(In the film _Seabiscuit_ [2003], written by
Laura Hillenbrand, screenplay by Gary Ross)
--
Steve