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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Some Rocky Mountain Wildflowers and Their Names
Flower names are a popular topic, so I picked a bouquet of wildflowers on my recent trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. (That’s “picked” as in “selected.” I believe in the motto, “Take only pictures; leave only footprints.”) Blue … Continue reading
Posted in etymology
Tagged columbine, English language, etymology, fireweed, flowers, Indian paintbrush, origin of names, strawberry, wildflowers, word origins
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A Profusion of confusing fuses
I recently returned from the Aspen Music Festival where the word that came to mind was “profusion”: wildflowers everywhere, charging streams overflowing their banks and a bounty of music. I got to wondering whether “profusion” was related to “fusion” or … Continue reading
19th Century Pixelation
“Oh, no! The image got all pixelated!” That’s the distressed cry of digital photographers who discover an image is too low resolution to be displayed in large format. With too few pixels, each pixel (or minute element of a digital … Continue reading
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Tagged English language, etymology, photography, pixel, pixelation, pixilation, word origins, words
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