It is easy to let a blog lay fallow. With all the distractions of real life and other online activities ...sometimes a blog post is the last item on a long list of 'things to do'.
This serves as the inspiration for a simple, silly posting activity to perhaps get me back here more often.
I have always been fascinated by the small line drawings or 'pictures' found in ink and paper dictionaries. Strange animals, small maps, unfamiliar objects, odd plants ...as a young reader finding these diminutive icons they were most often a glimpse of something new to me.
This series of posts will share random selections of these small pictures 'sampled' from Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language; copyright 1989. A "$79.95 Value" according to a tag on the inside the dustcover's front flap ...I picked it up recently for $6.99 plus tax at a local Half Price Books outlet. Boy did I hoodwink (v.t. 1. to deceive or trick.) them..!!
Tonight's random selection and submission for your (and my) edification...
al-pac-a n. 1. a domesticated, South American animal of the genus Lama, having long, soft, silky hair or wool, related to the camels, resembling a llama, and believed to be a variety of the guanaco.
I know . . .pretty exciting..!!
Stay tuned for my next entry . . .I hope to at least make it through the alphabet once. We shall see.
...tom...
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