The Greenbelt

The Hidden History of Juneteenth tells a story that this week shows us we still need to hear: Juneteenth and what it really was. Not just that white, rebel Texans hid the news of Emancipatio...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2019/06/juneteenth.html

Eastern Bluebirds: these guys never come to the feeders. I guess the recent cold has made their usual food hard to find. The four of them chowed down for quite a while. Hope they come back. ...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2019/02/well-hello.html

Looked out the window just now and saw the crab apple full of house finches! Fresh from The Greenbelt

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-singing-tree.html

Today's Cipher puzzle is "You must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. - Steve Garvey" Setting aside the dubious truthiness of the quote (plenty of p...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2019/01/if-you-do.html

My annual posting This is one of my favorite poems of all time. Enjoy it and the day... Winter Solstice, Camelot Station John M. Ford Camelot is served By a sixteen-track stub termin...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/12/winter-solstice-camelot-station.html

Merry Christmas, Good Yule, Happy Solstice, Midwinter Joy, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Festivus, Happy Hannukah ... however you celebrate the returning light in this midwinter season, may it fill you wi...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/12/joy.html

Enjoy! My Xmas Story by Mark Evanier ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 7/9/99 Comics Buyer's Guide I want to tell you a story… The scene is Farmers Market — the famed tourist mecca of Los Angeles. ...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-christmas-story.html

I'm wondering just how convoluted the theory is connecting these four stories... Fresh from The Greenbelt

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/12/i-would-so-watch-this-movie.html

Today is the Feast of Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun. Yes, there's plenty of winter ahead of us, cold and snow and darkness, but with every day the light is longer. Rejoice! Fresh from T...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/12/happy-solstice.html

Diego dropped some snow on us, not that much, an inch or so. (It was supposed to be rain, so they didn't treat the roads, which will make tonight fun.) But it's pretty. Blurry shot of bunny(...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/12/snow.html

Another antecedent problem ... You really have to be careful. No Jews were murdered at the Auschwitz Museum, guys. Yeah, I know: Auschwitz Museum is their name (or rather their Twitter handle),...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/11/where.html

I love Fiona! Watch her galloping around! Fresh from The Greenbelt

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/11/fiona-anniversary-video.html

If "arctocentric" was a word, Google would be displaying it, instead of just being provincial. Yo! Sometimes people actually are looking up places in the Southern Hemisphere. Note that even putti...

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They're going to let him have "What are Siamese twins?" for this (in Recent Nonfiction)??? Sheesh. That's like letting "Who was the President?" stand for an answer to "In 2005 Doris Kearns G...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/11/theyre-letting-him-have-this.html

There's an example of an interesting phenomenon in yesterday's NYT crossword: a word or term borrowed from a narrow field - in this case, sports - that acquires the opposite connotation. Here i...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/11/borrowed-and-reversed.html

Here's the table (the main one, we overflow onto a smaller table, with 14 eating!) just before we all sat down. We had a wonderful day, with three generations well represented. The kids are...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-waiting-table.html

Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers, and happy end of autumn (or spring) to the rest! Fresh from The Greenbelt

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/11/happy-thanksgiving.html

So, in this sentence > the lizard bit down on the snake and prevented it from being eaten what was not eaten? Nope! Here's the whole awkward paragraph, in meme form (a King Sn...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/antecedents-referents-reflexives.html

Here are several things re that train wreck... some funny stuff at the end! "It is possible that his accusers might have mistook him for someone else... and the mysteriously disappearing gambli...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/kavanaugh.html

Just a couple of little moments from this week... First, earlier Rob said he'd never been able to see Book of Mormon because they always wanted $1,000 for a ticket. I don't know what he's talki...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/jeopardy-moments.html

Someone posted this on Facebook - Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To ... or rather, Mark Hamill on Skellig Michael, Ireland. All those puffins? They couldn't be displaced, so they were turned into porgs. ...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/before-computer.html

Here is what I do not understand. They have a list of nominees. He can't be the only judge they've got who will rule like they want. Why doesn't Trump pull Kavanaugh or he recuse himself - no...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/puzzled.html

Alex Trebek this week, shaving the beard despite its overwhelming fan support - his wife disliked it. Monday he had the full beard. Tuesday it was a goatee. Wednesday, just the mustache. Thursd...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/shaving-in-increments.html

Here's a female House Finch. The first and third are the same bird, and probably the second is, too, as a pair breeds in the big box holly a little further down the house, but on the other hand t...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/pretty-brown-bird.html

Oddly, the translation algorithm actually realized that this construction means "is four years old" - though not "is ONLY four" as the всього makes it mean. But it doesn't really understan...

http://thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2018/09/ukrainian-not-russian.html