Plant of the Day
Monday 13 November 2023
In Castle Gordon Walled Garden, Scotland, a range of apple cultivars have been harvested and were being stored including:
Malus domestica 'Michaelmas Red' (apple) an extremely sweet, juicy and aromatic fruit. It was raised in Kent, UK, in 1929.
Malus domestica ‘Joybells’(apple) raised by Will Tayler in Godalming, Surrey, with records showing that trees were grafted in about 1914.
Malus domestica ‘Howgate Wonder’ (apple) one of the largest cooking apples in cultivation. It was raised on the Isle of Wight, UK, in 1915 by G. Wratten of Howgate Lane, Bembridge. The cultivar was a cross between Malus domestica ‘Newton Wonder’ and Malus domestica ‘Blenheim Orange’.
Jill Raggett
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- Malus is right next to GOLB in the book.
- Malus looks almost exactly like Abraxas, who is the god above all gods in gnostic beliefs.
- “Malus” is The scientific name for apples.
- an apple appears at the end of Fionna and cake.
Could Malus be the antithesis to GOLB and also Prismo’s boss? (Also known as “THE Boss”) Is the Apple at the end of Fiona and cake hinting at a season 2?
What do you think? Do you have opinions, theories? Additional information? Let me know!
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Card of Calamity
A daily design available today only at The Yetee
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Kagayuzen houmongi kimono with crabapple and plum blossoms design by Tokio Hata (1911-)
加賀友禅訪問着 人間国宝 羽田登喜男
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Plant of the Day
Saturday 11 November 2023
An apple raised by Charles Ross in Berkshire and first exhibited in 1890 was Malus domestica ‘Charles Ross’. It produces large, sweet flavoured, juicy orange-red fruit but should be eaten by the end of October for the best flavour. The blossom attracts bees, and later any fallen fruit are popular with the birds whilst the buds are popular with bullfinches.
Jill Raggett
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Man, the folks at WSU who worked on the Cosmic Crisp really produced a banger. My local grocery store just started carrying them, so this is the first time I've had them--one lived in my knitting bag for a week and it is just as firm as it was when I got it. Absolutely nuts!!
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Fumito Ueda was inspired by… The King and the Mockingbird (Le Roi et l'Oiseau).
The King and the Mockingbird was clearly an inspiration for both Hayao Miyazaki and Fumito Ueda. I've taken so many screenshots that look like scenes in The Castle of Cagliostro, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus that I can't include all of them in one post, so first I'm going to show you the ones that look like Ico.
A chimney sweep and a shepherdess are the young couple escaping the castle, prefiguring Ico and Yorda. They come to life from paintings hanging next to each other and the reason they need to escape is because a painting of the king has also come to life, has got rid of the actual king, and is determined to marry the shepherdess.
The narcissistic king has winged servants who chase after the shepherdess and the chimney sweep like the flying monkeys of The Wizard of Oz and surely inspiring the shadow creatures in Ico.
The mockingbird of the title looks after four hatchlings. One of them keeps getting trapped in a cage and on one occasion is freed when the cage falls to the ground and breaks open, just like when we first encounter Yorda in Ico.
Towards the end, the king is trying to get away with the shepherdess, who is his unwilling bride. He steps onto a balcony area which then moves away from the palace and is revealed to be the helmet of the king's enormous robot, so it's like a combination of the retracting bridge from Ico and Malus in Shadow of the Colossus.
Not long after, it is the king, rather than our hero, who gets hit by a falling rock as the castle crumbles.
The soundtrack -
When we’re looking at the paintings of the shepherdess and the chimney sweep (at 16 minutes 30 seconds) we hear a harpsichord melody called ‘La Bergere et le Ramoneur’ that's strikingly similar to 'Castle in the Mist'.
Also, whenever the shepherdess and the chimney sweep need the mockingbird's help, they call out ‘Oiseau’ (pronounced ‘Wuh-zoh’) the way Ico calls out ‘Ontwuh’.
Ico's horns -
They don't feature in this animation but perhaps they should because....
The King and the Mockingbird was adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale called The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep. It tells the story of a shepherdess who is told she has to marry a creature with horns and the legs of a goat (a description of a satyr).
Is it any surprise at all that a fairy tale as beautiful as Ico should turn out to be traceable all the way back to none other than Hans Christian Andersen?
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