Cherry Blossom

 

Sounds like the name of an OnlyFans artiste, but no. Flowering Cherry.  A tree or bush.

And quite a tedious picture of one.

Bonus - 

Actually, Donnie, we don't.

Bonus 2 - Actually, Donnie...

The Queen Butterfly

 

 a.k.a.Danaus gilippus (I think).

It might be a marsh fritillary, which would give me a reason to invoke 

I got a letter from Stringy Bob:

“Still on suicide watch

Screws not happy

Spotted a marsh fritillary during association

Was roundly ignored

Bonus - 

An Arboreal Avenue Cathedral

 

There's probably a better word for it, but this avenue of trees does remind me of a cathedral.

No info on the slide, obviously, but the lack of a formal road up this avenue does seem rather unusual. Perhaps one of you readers may be able to enlighten me.

As a pure guess, I wonder if it might be in Hidcote Manor Gardens... but purely a guess.

Bonus - 25 Minutes of Demolition Videos

Colours and Textures In Nature

 

Might be an entry slide for a Photographic Club's competition.

Maybe.

Bonus - 

'Murica !!!!

A Flock of Hefferlumps

 

It's not what you expect to see as you drive through the UK's countryside. However, the isle of Anglesey is home to the UK's only wild, free-roaming herd of elephants.

It dates from August 1917, when a captive herd kept in the Duke of Menai escapes from his estate, and found the countryside to their liking. Wartime manpower shortages meant that they weren't rounded up quickly, and by the time the war ended, the herd had established itself in the local's heritage. So, meh, let them roam, was the view. And they still do.

Bonus : 

Three Fun Guys

 

or maybe Three Funghi.

Not a bad natural history image... I like it.

Don't know if they're edible.

Bonus - Twenty Years Old  -
Badger Badger Badger

Bonus 2 - 

Perfectly Pleasant Pheasant

 

I believe that his name is Edgar.

Edgar Obviously.

Bonus - Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)

Bonus 2 - Pranking the Library

A Slide So Tedious...

 

...that even posting it upside-down doesn't make it any more interesting.

Bonus - Whereas, when it happens with a Mondrian...

Bonus 2 - 

The Majestic American Bison

 

Not so much a Tedious Tuesday slide, more of a completely underwhelming slide. Those could be anything, really.

The American Plains Bison (technically Bison bison bison) has seen a welcome in the past few decades. In the past, well, America does love a good slaughter.

Bonus : As a complete contrast, something totally over whelming.  Talking Heads.  "Stop Making Sense."  Remastered in 4K. The Whole Show. Free.

ENJOY!

Two Flutterbies

 

or to be accurate, two butterflies plotting to break into your house, ransack the place and steal your car.

Nobody ever suspects butterflies of being psychotic criminals.

Bonus : Well Played, Shop Person

Cherry Blossom Moment

 

Yes, I know.

Two consecutive beautiful scenery slides, and a complete lack of "Funny Looking Kids". Well, It's my blog, and there are few other blog visitors. Yes, it's true, I have less that 500,000 visitors a day. (Far less)

Bonus - But, Today is Dancing Cow Day

Bonus 2 - Two scientists walk into a bar. The bartender asks what they would like to drink. The first scientist says “I’ll have a glass of H2O please.”

The second scientist says “I’ll have H2O too.”

The second scientist dies.

It's Twos-Day !

 

To mark Twos-Day (the once in a lifetime? day of 22-2-22 ) I went looking for an suitably appropriate slide.

And gave up quite quickly.

Instead, here's a tedious slide of a slightly interesting event.

It seems to be a muddy lake with a writhing mass of catfish (?) feeding on a raccoon carcass. Or something.

Tasty.

Bonus - Movie trailers have undergone a huge evolution. They’ve gone from those cheesy voice-of-God narrators in the ‘80s and ‘90s, to boojes and bwaas.

Today : Today is a palindromic ambigram day

"Your Lupins Or Your Life"

 

So, just taking a few days off work.

I've really felt the pressure build up over the past few weeks, it seems like I'm dealing with an incompetent bunch of idiots, and "The Company" relies on me to keep them from ruining everything.  We will see.

So, this dark forbidding wood with a small patch of colour illuminated by teh sun...seems appropriate.

I wonder if HR will see this post an panic...

Bonus - 

Peacock

 

No, I've not been playing with the colour settings of this. I suspect that the unexpected colours are just Transmitted light vs Reflected Light.

Bonus - in 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by throwing it in the river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it.

Bonus 2 - The League of Gentlemen - Remake???

A Woodland Idyll

 

A woodland idyll to celebrate the arrival of spring here in Slideville.

Warm weather, bright sunshine and the sound of lawnmowers.

AND, the loosening of Covid Lockdown restrictions. :-)

Bonus - Body Ballet by Nude Robot

Shapes In Nature - The Snail.

 

It's a shape

It's natural.

I guess it is a shape in nature. Fine.

I could carry on with this sequence of slides, but I sense that boredom is creeping thru' the millions and millions of BlogReaders here.

Bonus - (Some) People deserve to be punched.  ‘It disgusts me’: how a wealthy couple lied to get a vaccine meant for Indigenous people

Bonus 2 - 

Shapes In Nature - The Pine Cone

 

Interesting fact. Ancient Vietnamese morticians used pine cones to prevent rectal seepage during the Lying-In-State of recently deceased royalty.

Bonus 1 - It's a pine cone 

Bonus 2  - In tribute to Major Tom 

Shapes In Nature - The Starfish

 

Yes, you may have been worrying over what today's shape would be, and the team who chose Star were right.

Not your common or garden five armed starfish, this is the more unusual Alpine Starfish with eleven arms.  Nice.

Bonus - 

Shapes in Nature

 

This week, my loyal blog-followers, we shall mainly be appreciating some slides from the Shape In Nature set. Won't that be fun?

We start with a cobweb. You probably know that cobwebs are made of spider silk, and that is 132 times stronger than titanium. But did you know that cobwebs taste of candy-floss?  Taste one and see.

Bonus - 

The Blossom

Tedious Tuesday arrives again, and you're in for a treat today.

Tree Blossom.

Pretty, but Pretty Dull.

Bonus - Mood Swings 

Bonus 2 - Ouch