By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Expensive Readers, I’m filling the fireworks with gunpowder in preparation for the night’s festivities, so that is an open thread. Discuss amongst yourselves, and the happiest of Completely satisfied New Years to you all. –lambert
Fowl Tune of the Day
Northern Mockingbird, Rochester Park–Texas Buckeye Path, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
Utagawa Hiroshige, Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge, from the sequence One Hundred Well-known Views of Edo.
Contact info for vegetation: Readers, be at liberty to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) learn how to ship me a verify in case you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to learn how to ship me photos of vegetation. Greens are effective! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary vegetation! If you’d like your deal with to look as a credit score, please place it firstly of your mail in parentheses: (thus). In any other case, I’ll anonymize through the use of your initials. See the earlier Water Cooler (with plant) right here. From TF:
TF writes: “Thanks to your considerate writing. You recognized lichen as an honorary plant, so I believed you would possibly prefer to see it beneath UV. From the wilds of Montana the place I reside – it’s really a Final Greatest Place. We’ve got so many stellar out of doors alternatives in our state – give a shout should you ever get out right here!”
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