Rayray from an Egg

Rayray - stopped in for a visit. Sure do love your gallery - my favorite is the Indonesian storm picture. I enjoy your verse and humor on the pages...thanks for sharing them with us.
Later gator

Hi Rayray - Can't believe others aren't drawn to that picture. You have done some unique and awesome traveling.
I love "dark Sumatra" coffee (we have a local roaster here in Grass Valley, CA who does a fabulous job on that bean) - but where I am from before moving to the mountains (Monterey) - they had a Sumatra blend that was called "Heart of Darkness" - my friends and I worshiped her and referred to her as "The Queen"...
...can you tell I love coffee??? I need a good coffee smilie!

My stepdaughter recently returned from traveling to Vietnam. Knowing we love good, strong coffee, they brought us home some from their trip.
They cooked it up for us and served it to us Vietnam style - with the condensed milk. It took some getting use to, but we enjoyed it.
I love the cup to saucer tradition for cooling you mentioned. Unfiltered coffee - sounds like westerner's "cowboy coffee".
Oh - glad you liked the lions - it always makes me teary.

Hi Rayray! Thank you for stopping by! Thank you also for the delicious dessert! I have to tell you......dessert last only a few days at my house. I have a husband with a "real Sweet tooth." It might get us through the week-end! Please come back again sometime.

I rarely comment nowadays (old age may make me loose my command of the English language?). But I would like to thank you for your comment about human rights yesterday. You expressed my feelings exactly. So again, thank you.

Well Rayray,
two days in a row. Maybe I should try to wake up from my depressed lurking lethargia. Because no one else seems to react to the comments that really should have started an agitaded discussion. Maybe people are to busy wishing each other happy birthday. (And this was very MEAN). Anyway, glad to hear someone is concerned about what's happening in the world.

Rayray, haven't been by to see you in awhile, but every time I get here I am always in awe. Left a note on your Sushi photo. Hope you are well & happy.

i took you up on your invite and must say i'm glad i did. i really enjoy your mind!! i amazed at artistic people. especially if i love their art. do you sell your work?

Dear Ray Squared - The sushis look amazing but I am even more impressed with your graphics. Very clever, and would have taken a lot of work.

Rayray...I've got mail...will write soon

Rayray, I meant for others to see the clips you showed me! I did not mean any sarcasm. I am sorry that you took it that way. Will you take the olive branch I offer?

Shosho (hurredly):
Of course I accept your olive branch because there is no big problem. I like the praise from my 'fans' as well - but only for any quality work I have done - and not so much for the work of other people!!

Oh dear Rayray, now I see the confusion. I meant the clip was yours by discovery (ie Columbus and America; Pasteur and disease causing germs) not by creation! You are highly talented in the literature domain but I fear not in the technological one as we all as seen by our daily struggles with puter problems.

Rayray, what field of science were you working in? Not having any formal training in the sciences I find myself pursuing several areas to build up enough expertise to be able to instruct my students. Right now I'm digging into geology (I know I just realized the pun, groan) particularly into the eocene epoch. A lot of it is over my head, the types of test in which data is gathered but some I can understand like the evaporites and the types of algae from that time. But as a time which was hotter than what we have presently is interesting to note and what brought the temperature down will be my next study.

Wow! Those piercing blue eyes! Oh, yes! Definite hunk material, Rayray! Hottie personified!

Great photo, Rayray!

RAY RAY, thanks for solving the eye color mystery for me. Looking at the black and white photo and seeing the farker ring of color around the edges of the iris, well, for some reason my first thought was green. I love blue eyes, happen to have them myself hehehe. AND I am closer to your age than those silly girls who were gushing over your photo, was 29 when that photo of you was taken. Thanks for sharing, it was a very good photo of a very striking subject.

I still have not posted an older photo of myself, I will try to find one of me later, when I can be up and about more. I had a minor snip and stitch this week, and some things are having to wait a bit, photo hunting is one, reading the EASY board is another.

Rayray...bring a mop because there is a lot of drooling going on over on pages 293 and 294 at Sudokuholics Anonymous 5. You've created quite a stir with your pic!

Rayray - so wonderful of you to stop by. Came back to read "Fly in the Soup"...will have to come back for the earthquake because I've got to go out and paint (our addition that we are building). Just wanted you to know that I am keeping powerful positive thoughts for you and your court case. Do keep us posted. You must know the power of more than one mind focused in the same thought!

Rayray, I wish I could help your friend. I don't know if the procedure I had would be suitable for him. He would need to consult a neurologist. Meanwhile, if it is actually coming from a pinched nerve in the spine, then a chiropractor or osteopath might be able to help. But I guess by now he has tried all those things! I was very lucky and was also surrounded by many prayers.

#22 for you too, eh? As a kid, on athletic teams, I always wanted 2 or 22 on my jersey. The number crops up often in my life (not always for better), but maybe it is partly because I look for it.

Rayray, thanks for the lovely pictures. I wrote a long comment under the last one. The birthdays.

Wonderful photos Rayray. Am just catching up after a weekend away! Sudoku sure was busy!!

Hi Rayray.
Sorry I missed you in the chat room.... no one has ever commented on my string of numbers before... maybe they just all think I'm nuts!!! True - but it is a little way of cleaning the board 'cause you never know what rodeuse or rodeus are out there...

Somethings should only be read in context and if that salient point was a few screens back then I would rather leave a blank screen instead of something that can be open to misinterpretation.....

BTW...did you see the smilie I downloaded with you in mind and posted on the bottom of page 4.
Another 'specially for you..

RAY RAY, I am glad your cheerfulness got a good topping off today on the EASY board today. Hope you are soon in a much happier place. We do miss your comments, but much appreciate your popping in to let us know you are still around. Take care and come back soon when you have more time, with more sheepoems and other good entertainment we are accustomed to from your keyboard. Sudokuland would not be the same without our PL.

Hello Ray - thank you for taking the time to visit my photo gallery and for your comments on my photos. Also thank you for your recent comment on the "oldie" photo of me. I'll have to try and live up to that comment!
I am very lucky to live in such a beautiful place as Albany which a lot of locals take for granted and don't realise how beautiful it is.
Cheers
Anne

Frangipanni! What visions that word brought! I know it to be a fragrant blossom and my son and his wife talked about it from their honeymoon in Bali. One day, one day, I shall see and smell it myself. Fragrant flowers send me into ecstasy! Oh well. . . back to the blase world I live in.
The only words I can think of are - skirt of fallen petals, circle of fallen petal, the blossoms encircled the tree. I know there are others but my sleepy brain won't cooperate this morning (and it better since I must attend a training. Envision me jumping through hoops)

Hi Rayray, thanks for stopping to look at my pictures and commenting!

correct riddle answer - well done!

I just saw the remarks you posted about the George Mason Memorial and also the White Alligator photos in my gallery. I will respond, then take a look at your gallery.
The George Mason Memorial statue is a bronze. I, too, found it very lifelike- to the point I instinctively touched it (metal). I have never been to London (or anywhere in UK) but many of its landmarks are famous in the States. People pretending to be statues, like you describe in London, I have seen throughout the USA. Most of them are just trying to get an acting job, or have figured out an entertaining way to panhandle without arrest.
A white alligator could never survive, for a number of reasons. When small, its white color would make it stand out against the (typically black-brown) water it was in, or on any riverbank it would haul out on, making it easily visible for animals which eat young alligators (lots of predators eat the babys). As a southern American, I had to giggle at your description of the alligator's "usual green camouflage"; alligators are generally black. They are hatched with some brown stripes that fade as they age. Also, alligators do not "approach upon potential prey" as your wording. The Alligator is one of nature's best "ambush predators." In the wild, they will sit in one spot, unmoving, sometimes for weeks at a time, until prey moves into a key area near its mouth- and then strike so fast humans can barely follow the motion. They look very much like rotting logs, and a white alligator would be obvious to potential prey. I have seen big black gators on the side of the road in Everglades National Park (one pic is included in my gallery), where tourists foolishly come within a few feet of them. I know that if one of those humans enters that alligator's 'hit zone', they will be bit before they can say "Ist Das Ist Ein Gator?"

Jim: (copy reserved for somewhere on Your Pages)
Your comment about tourists often being unaware that a still, statuesque alligator is usually not dead and mummified, reminds me of a story from the owner of a crocodile farm on Green Island near Cairns. After taking close-up pictures - of a crocodile straddled across the top of its pen’s wire fence - a Japanese tourist reported how impressed she had been over ‘that exhibit of the nice stuffed crocodile’. Concerned, the owner, armed with a long pole (Now-now! Jim!), returned to the scene with her. He poked the beast (Really Jim! – No! It was the crocodile he poked!), and it leapt into full life as he pushed it back into its proper place. As soon as the crocodile first moved, the now-enlightened Japanese lady simply passed out.

Hello Rayray, just stopped by to say Hello, I'm trying to get to know everyone a little better, love the photo's, the poems are good too and the artwork excellent did you do all of them yourself and whereabouts is yorks & e sussex exactly, cheers Sophia

Whoops!

FREE DENTURES
My teeth have grown apart from me.
From my mouth as was their womb -
they’ve broken loose; wild with glee;
and gnash across the room.

They clatter here; and chatter there;
they clamber over chairs.
My visitors had best beware -
of these ivory-white pairs.

They run about and move at speed;
they’re impossible to catch.
They chew at everything with greed;
my maneuverings they outmatch.

It seems to me they’re here to stay:
they seem quite happy here.
Now grandma’s teeth have joined the fray,
so soon they’ll breed, I fear.

One pair now skates across the floor,
like Starship-Enterprise.
Unrestrained by gums or jaw,
they chomp at stews and fries.

Two pairs together then just kissed,
in a strange and ghostly way.
I’m told I’ll need an exorcist -
to frighten them away.

Other folk would deem me mad -
should I ever dare complain.
This nightmare is the worst I’ve had,
and it’s driving me insane.

Rayray 19th October 2008

Great Teeth poem, Rayray! I haven't visited Easy in a LONG time. Life keeps getting in the way. I've missed your poetry! Hope you have a great day! (By the way, I used to have a recurring dream about teeth falling out.)

Rayray - what a fun poem. And just in time for Halloween!

An absolute scream, Rayray! Perfect for this spooky time of year.

What a scream!
No am I today. I'm still looking for my coffee . But your verse has waken me up! The bump on the floor did it!

Wongerful, Rayray! Here's to chompers everywhere!

Well done Rayray, hope I don't get nightmares from this hehe!