happened upon this thread on Freddie Mercury’s voice colours - I’ve copied in the question that started the conversation:  “As someone with synaesthesia, Freddie's voice has always been green. The whole songs have smatterings of other colours like red and gold, but ones like Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Killer Queen are very much lime green. Does anyone else with synaesthesia have a similar experience?” Comments Section groxicot •5mo ago For me it's always yellow and purple for Freddie, Orange for Brian Dark green for Deacon's bass guitar and Roger is a bone gray 21 shroomindisguise •5mo ago interesting! i love hearing what colors and such ppl with synaesthesia view things as. i don’t have synaesthesia, but i do like relating colors to things/concepts. for me, freddie’s voice in the 70s is a dark plum color, and the 80s is a bright red 9 MadMeddows •5mo ago What color is "The march of the black Queen"? Or 39'? 8 doogooru •5mo ago March is dark purple and matte black. 39' is blue green, and cobalt blue Isn’t this a curious conversation. I hadn’t thought much about how diverse our experiences could be - it seems like the physical senses of hearing and seeing would be the same.  But it turns out that there is seeing colours when hearing music, tasting something when hearing words, feeling touch or phsycial sensations when hearing words.  This applies to 4% of the population.  Doesn’t it make you wonder if it is someone you already know. This is the likely final version of the salt montage image - it has been combined with a Queen Anne’s Lace floer picture to get this montage.

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Marilyn's Photos - Ocy 8 2025 - White, Gray, Black, and Green

 

The Bright Side    What do these colours have in common? They are all surnames.  There are lots of surnames that are colours.  There is also violet, purple, beige, and yellow.    Black, white and brown are supposedly associated with the colour of skin and hair.  Green would be associated with a village green or people working in occupations such as gardener (why not call them gardeners?)   It turns out it is very simple:  colour names come out of physical traits, occupations or geographical landmarks.    While surnames first emerged in China, there’s no indication of colour surnames originating there.    Ancient Greece and Rome had systems for assigning names based on family and clan associations.   We know more about Europe in the Middle Ages when things started getting widely recorded.  The first recorded surname was “descendant of the clerk” - O’Clery in 916.  The system of fixed and hereditary surnames became widespread with the Normal barons after 1066.  So I guess there’s something geographical or occupational about Violet for it to be a surname, and here it is: French: topographic name from a diminutive of viol ‘path’, itself a derivative of vie ‘way’, or a habitational name from (Le) Violet, the name of several places in various parts of France. It is also found in Germany as a surname of Huguenot origin. Compare Violette. 2. English: altered form of Violett. Some characteristic forenames: French Christophe, Pierre. And can you guess the origin of Pink?  “It was of early medieval origin, and derives from a nickname given to a bright, chirpy, person, thought to be as active and cheerful as a chaffinch. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century word "pinca", in Middle English "pinch" or "pink". There are many marvels to be found in every day things.  This is a garden labyrinth carved in stone.

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Nov 4 2024 - Mega-Polling

 

There is a lot of coverage over the difficulties of polling in the US.  Today's headline says that a British company Focaldata has conducted a poll with a new methodology.  It is MRP - multilevel regression and post-stratification.  It is known as "mega-polls" and predicted Theresa May's loss when other polls suggested she would win.  So it is getting attention. Particularly since it says that Harris will win.   We can go to 338Canada  and see the same - their poll shows that Harris will win over Trump.  The charts are very interesting - very stylish, too.  Take a look HERE.  The one that gets my attention is the tipping point chart.  Pennsylvania! But what about here in Ontario and Canada?  We can look at the popular vote projection for Ontario and it shows the Conservatives far ahead.  And the same is true of the Canada Federal projection.  Can you imagine having both Ontario and Federal with Conservative majorities?  Wouldn't that be an historical event? Too many historical events seem to be taking place.  I think that's why there were crowds of people at the Watering Can on Saturday doing vast amounts of Christmas shopping.

Here's a collage of some of the water colour images made interesting shapes with Flexify. Very cheerful for a dull November day.

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Jan 19 2024 - Sweater Weather Food and Fun

 

It is cold and there's snow falling.  There are a lot of recipes and ideas on the internet on what to eat for winter dinners.  I wonder where recipes falls in the list of most popular searches.  Looking at Google's list of most popular topics by category the most of the recipes are non-North American. Here's the list: Recipes 1) पनीर पसंदा (Paneer pasanda) 2) Bolo caseiro (Homemade cake) 3) Tuzlu kurabiye (Salt cookie) 4) Overnight oats 5) zimtschnecken (Cinnamon rolls) 6) Irmik helvası (Semolina halva) 7) панкейки (Pancakes) 8) Baba ganoush 9) Bulgur pilavı (Bulgur rice) 10) Pasta salad I wonder what the common link is in the recipes.  There doesn't look to be any to me - a wide range of topics from all over the world.  Looking through the searches, I am not sure that salt cookie is a food search - it looks more  like a character who is friends with Hero Cookie, Herb Cookie and more.   And how funny is any of the food in the list.  Not very many jokes on paneer, bolo and so on. In comparison, there are thousands of pasta jokes.  You don't even need to leave the search titles - 15 pasta puns that will have you ravelling on the floor. The most popular joke on the Scotsman website is a pasta joke:  "The joke in question, ‘I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get pasta’, secured more than half the votes (52 per cent) in a survey of more than 2,000 people. Mark Simmons, who also made the shortlist back in 2017, took more than a third (37 per cent) of the votes thanks to his one liner, ‘Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it’s next day delivery?’ The comedian and children’s author, Olaf Falafel, had two lines shortlisted, and came a close third with another culinary-themed joke: ‘My attempts to combine nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing stock.’ In eighth place was his deadpan remark: ‘I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that’s four hours of my life that I’m definitely getting back.’ Mr Vine, a two-time winner of the award, was shortlisted for ‘I used to live hand to mouth. Do you know what changed my life? Cutlery’. Here's the rest of the list: 4. By my age, my parents had a house and a family, and to be fair to me, so do I, but it is the same house and it is the same family Hannah Fairweather  5. I hate funerals – I’m not a mourning person Will Mars 6. I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that’s four hours of my life that I’m definitely getting back Olaf Falafel  7. I sent a food parcel to my first wife. FedEx Richard Pulsford  9. Don’t knock threesomes. Having a threesome is like hiring an intern to do all the jobs you hate Sophie Duker  10. I can’t even be bothered to be apathetic these days Will Duggan

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Oct 15 2023 - Fall Colours

 

Ball's Falls is very close - just two towns away, and is a good place for fall colour. Nothing in Niagara is on the provincial park colour map.  But then Vineland is just a short drive to find out how the colours are doing. It has a large array of native species including wild sarsaparilla, sycamore, sassafras and pignut hickory.  I think it has an old growth forest section as well. I hadn't realized it is a historical ghost town.   "Balls Falls began in 1809 when the Ball brothers built a wooden gristmill on Twenty Mile Creek in the heart of the Niagara Peninsula. Known as Glen Elgin, it had by the 1840s grown into one of the area’s busiest industrial towns. The flourishing village boasted a barrel maker, a blacksmith and two lime kilns, as well as a store and several houses. But during the 1850s, the Great Western Railway laid its rails well below the escarpment some distance north of Glen Elgin. New industries located by the railway, and Glen Elgin gradually became a ghost town. Thanks to the efforts of the Niagara Region Conservation Authority, the site is preserved. Of the old buildings, only the gristmill, a lime kiln and the Ball homestead have survived. Other historic buildings from the surrounding region, including a pioneer log cabin and a picturesque wooden church, have been relocated to Balls Falls park. Interpretive plaques throughout the site recount the stories of the village and its various operations. The entrance to the conservation area lies a short distance south of the village of Vineland on Regional Road 24."   This is the road into Ball's Falls in Autumn.

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June 14 2023 - That Old Television Set

 

Isn't that so nostalgic?  It looks like a colour image from the 1960s, doesn't it? Everything sort of pinky and blue. Switching to color wasn’t as easy as flipping a switch. Jack Chertok, producer of My Favorite Martian, told Broadcasting magazine in August of 1965 that there would be problems with some of the special effects used in the series: “Many of them depend on wires which we’ve kept hidden from viewers by using black wires against a black background. Now we’ll have to use colors matching the colored backgrounds."   I seem to remember Bonanza was a very colourful show.  And that they colourized the grass and other parts of the scenery to make it vibrant.  Certainly Bonanza was called the "Color television trailblazer".  Such a long-running show, there are lots of facts about it. Alas, I didn't find any colour-painting facts. Colour TV was a vast success.  In January of 1968, TVB found that households with color television sets were watching between 40 and 70 more minutes of television on a daily basis than households with black-and-white sets Here's some peeling paint on a transport truck - it seems surreal it is so colourful.  And isn't it so curious that one can find a landscape scene somewhere in the mess of peeling paint and plastic. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca