I found these grapes from last autumn in my archives and gave them the dictionary treatment.

Another for the Dictionary of Image group.

Yet another dictionary entry, I enjoy doing them so you will be seeing a few more of them in the future.

Dictionary of Image

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Macro Mondays

London

I love reading...

Mi pequeño diccionario.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

My reference library that has been replaced by a phone. Be creative for Flickr Friday and thanks for any views, faves and comments.

(details from the melodic section)

Vieux #Dictionnaire

"Nouveau petit Larousse illustré"

130e édition - 1932

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This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Dictionary

Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Dictionnaire

O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Dicionário

本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #字典

FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Wörterbuch

El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Diccionario

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Mini OED

ArtPrize has returned to Grand Rapids this year...18 days of art all over Grand Rapids. This is a good friend's entry. She is not only a photographer, but also a very talented artist. These dresses are all made from old dictionaries. She has 15 of them on display.

"Dresses Made From Dictionaries" By Rebecca Humes

Seen at the Amway Grand Hotel

www.artprize.org/70085

Thanks for views, comments and favs :)

Books that changed history

The Xmas book tree at the local library. It’s topped off with a couple foreign language dictionaries. Anybody happen to know the German word for birth control?

Dictionary art

"smile on saturday" and "teeny-tiny".

copyright © Mim Eisenberg/mimbrava studio. All rights reserved.

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naughty lake

“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.” – Jean Cocteau (French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic).

The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 2nd of August is "embossed leather". As those of you who follow my photostream will know, I am a collector of a great many things, and that includes antiquarian books. The smell of old paper and the feel of volumes in my hands delight me far more than a Kindle ever will. I love old books for their beautiful illustrations and ornately decorative bindings. Luckily for me, I have a wonderful library full of old embossed leather bound books with gilt decorated tooled spines, so I had to look no further than there for my choice for this week.

In the background I have one of eight volumes of “Rollin’s Ancient History” – 6th edition – published in 1774, one of seven volumes of the “History of Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters” published in 1811, and volume three of the “Waverley Novels” by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1829. However, the book with the beautifully embossed leather cover in the foreground is something of a recent edition to my collection, and a young’un when compared with the others, having been published in 1841. It is a copy of “Johnson’s English Dictionary in Miniature” published by Eli Soul of number 26 Tabernacle Walk in London (razed in the Blitz). I found it not three weeks ago at a thrift shop which a friend and I went to on a whim. It was in a locked glass cabinet on display, but when I asked to look at it, I was surprised to see it only had a price tag of a few dollars. It was a wonderful bargain, and its pages are full of interesting markers left by its former owners (who are all noted on the inside cover in spidery writing in faded ink), like old Victorian calling cards, pressed flowers and grasses, pieces of poetry cut from old newspapers and even an old and crumbling piece of silver foil. The cover, made of rich burgundy dyed leather is heavily embossed in typical Victorian patterning of the era. If only these old, embossed leather tomes could speak, what stories they could tell! I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!

It's worn down, it's old, it outdated. But it was my granddad's.

An old Dutch pocket dictionary, published by Spectrum in 1955!

Taken with another keepsake: my late dad's old Meyer-Optik Orestor 135mm f/2.8, with the help of some extension tubes.

For: Macro Mondays

Theme: Keepsake

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

seafood

Roo only knows one trick. I say "be cute"... and she does it!

Have a great weekend everyone. :)

words

Another for both the Dictionary of Image and the Complete Herbal

I love the smell of rosemary, we have a bush by our front gate and I crush a few leaves in my hand every time I go past.

Rosemary

noun -An aromatic evergreen Mediterranean shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) having light blue or pink flowers and grayish-green leaves that are used in cooking and perfumery

Several facts about "Southern Sea Lions" (Otaria flavescens):

1. Males have a large head and prominent mane;

2. They mainly feed on fish and haul out on sand, gravel, rocky, or pebble beaches;

3. Locally, it is known by several names, including león marino (sea lion) and lobo marino (sea wolf);

4. Males measure up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in length with a weight of 350 kg (770 lb) while females reach a length 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and reach 150 kg (330 lb) in weight.

Lately my life has been pretty stressful. I honestly put down my camera and didn't even think about taking pictures. I also completely stopped my 365 (oh well).

Everything has been starting to calm down and now I'm able to take some time for myself. I've decided to pick my camera back up and have a fresh start! But I can't find my tripod and need a shower, so here is a picture of my studious golden retriever ( who is currently freaking out because there is a baby deer in my neighbors yard).

I'm going to take this week by week starting today!

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Orange Rhyming Dictionary. San Jose, CA 2019

From the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, published in Russia,1890-1907.

For Macro Mondays Theme: The First Letter of My Name

D for Dictionary

RX100M3 9mm | f9 | 1/4 sec | ISO 125

florist's

The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement

Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically

Oxford University Press

Published 1971; reprint 1977

A good deal for $20 - a far cry from the $975 for the 20 volume set.