I remember several years ago when choosing the color for some assemble-yourself furniture, that shade was called fruitwood, iirc. Very nice, footed and everything :)
I call that shade "Waterlox Original tung oil finish on sycamore". No fruits involved. More like seed pods. Less pointy than sweetgum seeds, but less fruity than actual fruits.
That reminds me - I mowed my lawn today, the grapes which were not ripe enough to eat 2 weeks ago are gone now and the walnuts that were hanging around have been carried off by squirrels. Dang - I wanted to plant them!
As a kid, 'granny' across the street had four very large sycamore's around her perimeter. Then came curbs and asphalt. And one of many changes in my life to come.
I'm reading James Jones' Whistle. All I can say is that Sinatra's version of the forties ain't Jones' version. Whistle is about the returning wounded WW II vets and their various and sundry adventures in and around an army hospital in Luxor (actually Memphis) Tennessee. Fun it ain't but funny in a laughing to keep from crying way it is, or was.
The "tired" video is an excellent example of using facial expression to convey meaning. Eyebrow space, so to speak.
Ya think? Without the face to help things out, it looks a whole lot like the sadness of sagging boobs to me--which could I suppose be synonymous with tired.
@ ricpic, I ordered up another book you'd recommended about a dysfunction family visiting a dying mom and found it melancholy as hell but it held my interest through to the end. I sent it off to find a new reader in the move, and can't remember the title. Will give this one a try and see where it finds and leaves me.
I'm still musing over the throwing of fruitwood shade!
Our kitchen cabinets at the old house were stained "fruitwood" by my mom, and it wasn't until this post that I tumbled to the fact that fruitwood is the name of a general color that's supposed to resemble the wood of fruit trees. Live and learn. I wasn't particularly fond of the color but left them as they were. It was too expensive to get them redone, with the entire kitchen in need of an update that cabinet color wouldn't fix. I haven't seen this bowl without the pink of my night filter present, but it looks warm and inviting. Another beautiful bowl, artfully turned.
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I remember several years ago when choosing the color for some assemble-yourself furniture, that shade was called fruitwood, iirc. Very nice, footed and everything :)
I call that shade "Waterlox Original tung oil finish on sycamore". No fruits involved. More like seed pods. Less pointy than sweetgum seeds, but less fruity than actual fruits.
That reminds me - I mowed my lawn today, the grapes which were not ripe enough to eat 2 weeks ago are gone now and the walnuts that were hanging around have been carried off by squirrels. Dang - I wanted to plant them!
How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, you will never know...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU
Good-niiiight...
As a kid, 'granny' across the street had four very large sycamore's around her perimeter. Then came curbs and asphalt. And one of many changes in my life to come.
parrot
monkey
snake
lion
tiger
bear
oh, my
fish
monkey
rhinoceros
elephant
peacock
turkey
snail
pig (similar to dirty)
cow
horse
gorilla
Belgian
sheep
dog PSYCH! You already know that one.
German
hummingbird
eagle (similar to parrot)
I am (simply point to yourself in the chest)
tired
of (generally not used, at any rate, spelled)
this generally not used, otherwise point to something in front of you or in your open hand.
shit an immensely useful sign, various ways to express types of shit.
Here, for example are two more.
Ooohh! I like the elegant whisker pulling sign for cat. Very honoring, as the whiskers are everything! Well, maybe second only to the tail.
The "tired" video is an excellent example of using facial expression to convey meaning. Eyebrow space, so to speak.
lol that shit! one looks more like Fuck you!
I'm reading James Jones' Whistle. All I can say is that Sinatra's version of the forties ain't Jones' version. Whistle is about the returning wounded WW II vets and their various and sundry adventures in and around an army hospital in Luxor (actually Memphis) Tennessee. Fun it ain't but funny in a laughing to keep from crying way it is, or was.
Thanks, ricpic, that does sound like a good read.
The "tired" video is an excellent example of using facial expression to convey meaning. Eyebrow space, so to speak.
Ya think? Without the face to help things out, it looks a whole lot like the sadness of sagging boobs to me--which could I suppose be synonymous with tired.
@ ricpic, I ordered up another book you'd recommended about a dysfunction family visiting a dying mom and found it melancholy as hell but it held my interest through to the end. I sent it off to find a new reader in the move, and can't remember the title. Will give this one a try and see where it finds and leaves me.
I'm still musing over the throwing of fruitwood shade!
Our kitchen cabinets at the old house were stained "fruitwood" by my mom, and it wasn't until this post that I tumbled to the fact that fruitwood is the name of a general color that's supposed to resemble the wood of fruit trees. Live and learn. I wasn't particularly fond of the color but left them as they were. It was too expensive to get them redone, with the entire kitchen in need of an update that cabinet color wouldn't fix. I haven't seen this bowl without the pink of my night filter present, but it looks warm and inviting. Another beautiful bowl, artfully turned.
MamaM -- The author of that book is James T. Farrell, but I can't remember the title either.
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