Haiku #7 – Feb. 15-21, 2023

2023-02-15 – W …

Tech mystery
Once bold, now pale
WordPress … Help revive
This faded soul

Screenshot of problem with my live Photo a Day Adventure blog. Fonts were pale, bold had disappeared. Same with all my Twenty Sixteen theme blogs. Sent this to WordPress for help. Feb. 16, 2023
Screenshot of problem with my live Photo a Day Adventure blog. Fonts were pale, bold had disappeared. Same with all my Twenty Sixteen theme blogs … [Update, Feb. 27, 2023: Everything’s back to normal! Hooray!]
2023-02-16 – Th …

Dance! … fill the word up
Dance! … overflows
Dance! … mesmered power
Dance! Dance! Dance! DANCE!

Ram Charan (beige shirt), left, and N.T. Rama Rao Jr. (gray shirt) performing “Naatu Naatu” in film, “RRR.” 2023 Oscar nomination, Best Original Song, a first for India.
Ram Charan (beige), left, and N.T. Rama Rao Jr. (gray) performing “Naatu Naatu” in “RRR.” … Director, S.S. Rajamouli … 2023 Oscar nomination, Best Original Song … a first for India

Below … “Naatu Naatu” … full video song (in Telugu) …

“RRR” is a homegrown hit straight from South India and the Telugu-language film center known as Tollywood.

“Set in 1920s colonial India, “RRR,”  pits a tribal warrior, Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr., known as Jr. NTR), against an Indian officer for the British police, Ram (Ram Charan), who is assigned to find him. But the two become friends, and in the “Naatu Naatu” sequence, they go up against a British bully who wants to eject them from a lawn party. (Set against the pink-and-blue Mariinsky Palace, the sequence was filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, before the Russian invasion.)” – New York Times, Feb. 21, 2023

2023-02-17 – F …

Winter reprieve
Warm sun, tropical isle
Finally, home from the vet

Orange tabby girl cat, Perkins, laying on side, looking at camera, half in sun, half shade, on tropical flowered bed. Feb. 24, 2023, 12:54 pm. (Snow outside.)
Happy orange tabby girl, Perkins … basks in first sun … after several days of icy snow outside …
Orange tabby girl cat, Perkins, laying on side, looking at camera, half in sun, half shade, on tropical flowered bed. Stretches back legs, toes. Feb. 24, 2023, 12:54 pm. (Snow outside.)
See how happy I am?! … Stretch those toes! … Feb. 24, 2023, 12:52 pm … Her vet visit was Feb. 17, normal BP recheck
2023-02-18 – Sat …

Bird herd totem pole
Velvety fluff
Fierce-eyed suet warriors
Stand guard

Gray Pacific Bushtits, birds, on suet holder attached to pole on deck. The two at the bottom, yellow rimmed eyes, are females. Feb. 18, 2023, 4:37 pm
Pacific Bushtits … suet holder on deck … Just discovered! … the two at the bottom, yellow rimmed eyes, are females … Always thought they were fierce-eyed males. – source
2023-02-19 – Sun …

Curious visitor
Orange creamsicle cat
Half brother?
Asks Perk

First-time visitor, on top deck rail, looking in window. Half orange tabby, half white cat. Face, eyes look just like orange tabby girl cat, Perkins. Feb. 19, 2023, 4:06 pm
Looking in the deck window … Who are you? … First-time visitor … Half orange tabby, half white … Your face (the eyes!) looks just like orange tabby girl, Perkins!
2023-02-20 – M …

Ancient Memphis … camels, Sphinx
U.S. Memphis … FedEx jets
Computer to me

Side view of the Sphinx, with Pyramid of Cheops in background. Man leading camel in front, horse. Memphis, Egypt. Vintage photo, late 1800s?
Memphis, capital of ancient Egypt … The Sphinx and the Pyramid of Cheops … late 1800s? – source … More amazing historical photos of the Sphinx, 1850-1940
Flight map from Memphis, Tennessee to Portland, Oregon. Over 2,000 miles. Also includes routes by car.
Modern Memphis … Tennessee … Dell shipped my computer from there via FedEx Air (free!), Tuesday … arrived by noon, Wednesday … before it started getting horribly icy (snow had begun that morning, Feb. 22, 2023) … Much faster than by camel!
2023-02-21 – T …

Four redheads
One boy bird
Three berries
Seeds or tort?
Which is tastier?

Redheaded male house finch, on edge of black oil sunflower seed feeder, on deck. Feb. 20, 2023, 3:14 pm
Male house finch … black oil sunflower seed feeder, deck … Feb. 20, 2023, 3:14 pm
Half of chocolate tort, three large glazed strawberries on top. On Finnish Marimekko red, magenta Kaksi Raitaa (two tracks) towel. Feb. 22,. 2023, 10:58 am
First ever chocolate tort (Safeway bakery) … glazed strawberries … Celebrating February birthdays, Valentine’s Day … on Finnish Marimekko red, magenta Kaksi Raitaa (two tracks) towel … Feb. 22, 2023, 10:58 am … first day of snow, ice

Below … Finally found good comparison photos of redheaded males … house finch and purple finch … and their female partners …

Photos comparing male, female house finches and purple finches. Both males have reddish heads, fronts. Females are brownish.
Evidence that “my” redhead is a male house finch, not a purple finch … In Finnish, House Finch = Pihapunavarpunen … Purple Finch = Tammipunavarpunen

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