Maquis (French) or macchia (Italian: macchia mediterranea) is a shrubland biome in the Mediterranean region, typically consisting of densely growing evergreen shrubs. Macchia also means spot in Italian. A perfect segue to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ lovely poem Pied Beauty.
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I don’t think that Mayann really has set her hopes on that consul. In 1920, the U. S. consul in Trieste was Haven, Joseph E. (1885-1937) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., January 19,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s funny to catch up with the script and give visual shape to episodes that I have been planning for a decade. Mayann: is (anachronistically) singing a blues standard from 1922, Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do, by Porter Grainger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After scanning a page, I always make one print version in high resolution and one low-res online version. This time, I was in such a hurry (trying to teach myself a new schedule: 5 days of work, 2 days of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So the last comic update was in August… Well, this page was difficult to draw because of the light in the water and the general shenanigans. But that’s not a real excuse. Last autumn, I had a really challenging job[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This scene is inspired by the famous Blue Grotto in Capri, but there is one in Croatia, too. This drawing by Swiss geologist Leo Wehrli, after the German geophysicist August Heinrich Sieberg, shows how sunlight is reflected into the cave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…