I present installment #27 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
If you agitate the pandemonium you’ll create pandemonium!
He cast the cast free.
The murder murdered the afternoon quiet.
A memory has very long memories.
What a shock to find this nest nestled in the rocks.
A mischievous mischief causes so much mischief.
Memory, Angkor Wat, Cambodia
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Pandemonium of parrots
Cast of falcons [1]
Murder of crows
Memory of elephants
Nest of snakes [2]
Mischief of mice
Nest member, Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart, GermanyA critter this smart could definitely cause pandemonium…. Loro Parque, Tenerifa
Somewhere my father is grinning with approval at my never-ending blog thread for him! I present installment #26 describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
The scurry scurried off.
I always fall for a fall in fall. [1]
A hood lived under the hood.
The cover covered the shoreline.
The sawt sawed at the meat.
Is a cowardice cowardly?
Cowardice member, U Bein Bridge, Amarapura, Myanmar
Answers:
Scurry of squirrels
Fall of woodcocks
Hood of snails
Cover of coots
Sawt of lions
Cowardice of curs
Scurry member, Granary Burying Ground est. 1660, Boston, USACover, North Island, New Zealand
I present installment #25 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
Here is installment #23 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
This bite bites.
The cluster clustered at the bottom of the bowl.
The draft drifted in the draft.
The descent descended, making their way around the tree trunk.
Here is installment #22 from my eternal blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
They gammed about the gam’s lack of gams!
Sometimes a pounce pounces.
A vagrant vagrant member is all alone.
Is a deceit deceitful?
A sord is not sordid.
The posse shot the posse – and ate it.
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Vagrant vagrant, Loro Parque, Tenerifa
Gam of whales [1] [2]
Pounce of cats
Vagrant of sea urchin
Deceit of lapwings
Sord of mallards (in flight)
Posse of turkeys
Pounce, Nga Phe Chaung Kyaung Temple, Inle Lake, Myanmar
As 2018 begins I present to you Installment #21 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
The flock flocked together.
She dug up a clot of clats.
A flock of these solitary creatures would be one big flock!
The husk wasn’t particularly husky.
The wreck covered the wreck.
An audience for the audience, please!
Flock member, Mission Beach, AustraliaClat, Silk showroom, Bangkok, Thailand
Happy New Year, Everyone!!! My gift to you is Installment #20 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
Man, a flamboyance is flamboyant!
See the run run.
Is a zeal zealous?
I saw a rainbow rainbow!
The route kept to the route.
Did you find the bazaar at the bazaar?
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Rainbow part, Khao Yai National Park, ThailandRainbow part, Khao Yai National Park, ThailandRainbow part, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Hard to believe, but this is installment #19 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
Ooh, how the glaring glared when I started up the vacuum cleaner.
The ostentation was ostentatious for sure.
A sleuth sleuths slowly.
Touch an electric fry and you’ll fry.
The posse shot the posse and ate it.
The sedge hid in the sedges.
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Glaring member, Kanchanaburi, ThailandOstentation, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia
Uwe and I spent a recent holiday in southern Spain. My first trip to Andalusia took place when I was barely 17, and the memories that flooded me so many years later are all from deep recesses in my senses.
We traveled by bus between Granada and Córdoba, and later to Sevilla. I didn’t remember a thing about what Sevilla looks like. Memories came back anyway. In Granada they involved spatial proportions; in Córdoba, infinity and water. In Sevilla, my recollections arrived with sound.
Parque María Luisa
We strolled through the lovely Parque de María Luisa to the Plaza de España.
Plaza de España
The Plaza was constructed in 1929 when the city of Sevilla hosted the Ibero-American Exposition World’s Fair. A building façade curves, with lovely tilework depicting each Spanish state. Uwe took photos while I admired the details.
I heard an insistent, rhythmic clacking: a young man with castanets stood in the plaza. Near him a guitarist played as a dancer’s heels pounded out a hypnotic dance.
She was astonishingly poised, with the self-confident grace required of flamenco dancers. Her skirts swirled as she dipped and turned. Her dance in the square the pluck of guitar strings the click clack click clack clack clack clack of castanets…. I was thrust back in a relived moment so deeply entrenched that I cannot tell you when or where it first occurred.
For as long as I recall, flamenco always moves me to the edge of tears. I never understood why until my mother told me that she’d developed a short-lived taste for flamenco guitar music when she was pregnant with me. After I was born the craving promptly disappeared. So do these relived audio memories come from the womb? From that first trip abroad so long ago?
I had my coins out and ready when the dancer came around with a hat. I was surprised to see how young she was under her make-up. She might have been 17… just the age I was when I first visited this beautiful region.
