It is Fall Break, thank heavens. Academic pressures have been temporary alleviated, and I'm savoring the moments while they last. I am spending this years* break in Wisconsin - Milwaukee, to be specific. I am staying with the family of Evan P. Donohue along with a few other Belmont friends. It has been a fantastic trip.
Yesterday, I went to the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. It was pretty fantastic. A tower (Standing at about 50 or so feet, maybe higher) offered a magnificent view of Lake Michigan, which until now, I had only seen from an airplane. The Nature Center, which hosted multiple trails for hiking or just meandering, was right on the shore of the lake, which made it all the better. I feel a little bit misleading referring to anything that gigantic as a "lake". It's like calling a whale-shark a fish. I think we all know that whale-sharks transcend all fish-like boundaries, and by no means do they need to be referred to as such.
I found this interesting picture about a week ago. I'm curious to know what fantastic tale it belongs to. If anyone knows, please inform me. I'll get right to reading it. (Alice in Wonderland, maybe?)
*I have this weird feeling that I may have punctuated the word "years" wrong. Should there be an apostraphe in that? I haven't a clue!
5 comments:
There should be an apostrophe.
As for the picture, I don't remember a griffin being in the fairy tale. Or at least not in the one I was told. But the girl resembles Alice. So, it's a possibility.
Chapter IX
"They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. `Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, `and take this young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited."
a lot of good things happened for me at that nature center, and i am mildly jealous that i'm not there experiencing that with you and the gang.
Clearly, I need to revisit the story.
ah you were right! it's a beautiful picture.
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