Poetry Monday :: Shelf

Poetry Monday is a challenge, normally hosted by Diane at On the Border. But from Monday, January 8, 2024, Messymimi and I have conspired to keep the chair warm for her, as she's taking a break due to health issues. We will each set the topics for one month, I began with January, Mimi supplied for February, and so on until Diane returns.

Today is Shelf.

The absolute only thing Shelf made me think of was Elf on a Shelf. Not really a thing I'm keen on, and singularly inappropriate for Easter Monday. So forgive me for fooling around and making a nonsense poem.

An elf on a shelf
Is not good for Easter
This says itself.

An egg in a shell
Is just right for Easter
Clear as a bell

But gifts from elfs
And baskets of eggs
Are for all that helps -
With hands and with legs -
To weed in my bed
And knead all the bread
For Easter means guests
And wonderful feasts!

Next Monday: Order


Because I saw at Mimi's blog that today is Anne McCaffrey's birthday I bring you two versions of the cover art of my favourite book in Chronicles of Pern - Dragonsong. Music, drama and dragons, can you improve on that? I think not.

Cover art from 1977

Cover art from the edition I read first - also the Danish edition looks the same.

Drage-dag :: Appreciate a Dragon Day

Som altid bringer Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings en liste over ting, der fejres i dag. Deriblandt er Værdsæt en drage-dag. Det er lige noget for mig. Der optræder mange drager på denne blog: Legodrager, drager i bøger og i tegneserier, ægte drager, stempler og meget andet godt. Drager har endda deres helt egen label her på bloggen, så tryk bare på DRAGE, hvis I har lyst til at læse mere om Uglemors mange drager.

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As every day Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings brings a list over more or less obscure happenings today. Thanks!

According to her list, today is Dragon appreciating day. MotherOwl has a penchant for dragons. On this blog, we have seen lego-dragons, dragons in books and in comics. Susan has met a dragon, and MotherOwl has several dragon shaped things at home. Dragons even have their own label on this blog. Chose  DRAGE, (Dragon in Danish) to see them all.

Her er en drage fra mit billedarkiv. Jeg kan ikke huske, hvor jeg har brugt den, men den er da flot nok til at fortjene et gensyn.

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This is a dragon from my Blogger picture archive. I do not remember where I used it, but I think it's pretty enough for a revisit.

Godt nytår ~ Happy New Year

Alle læsere af min blog, deres venner, familie og bekendte ønskes et rigtigt godt nytår 

med solskin, sundhed og sjov!

 2024 er dragens år

2024 is the year of the dragon

Wishing all readers, their friends, families and acquaintances a Happy New Year filled with health, sunshine and joy to everybody.

Hobbit Day

Today is Hobbit day.

A day to celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Always on the 22nd of September, the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo.

For the tenth time Rachel at The Edge of the Precipice is hosting an Annual Tolkien Blog Party. Thanks to Lissa for refreshing my memory of this party.

To celebrate today, Rachel invites us to a game of tag, and I'd like to play. Here are her questions and my answers.

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1. Who first introduced you to Middle Earth?
     I do not remember, I think I just stumbled over The lord of the Rings in a deserted corner of the local library.

2. Has your love of Middle-earth affected your life?
     Yes. We often do things that are Middle-earth related, shooting bows and arrows, mushroom gathering, playing, talking, cooking ... even bathing ;)
     And for many years I have been playing first Dungeons and Dragons (a pen and paper game) and later World of Warcraft (online game). None of these would ever had existed without Tolkien's works.
     We often talk of persons and creatures from Tolkien's works, and as his works also are morally deep, but veiled in literature, they are good starting and ending points for theological, moral, and ethical discussions.
     I have taught myself a lot of Quenya and Sindarin and the writing of Tengwar (Fëanor's runes).
    
3. Have you ever dressed up like a Tolkien character?
   No, I never dressed up myself as a Tolkien character. But I have on many occasions dressed up my children - or helped them dress up as - Elven warriors, Hobbits, Dwarwes, and even a Goblin. All thanks to Tolkien.

4. What people in your real life would you want in your company if you had to take the ring to Mordor?
     My husband, my children, and a man I know who is a 'survive in nature' and martial arts specialist. That makes nine ;)

5. What Middle-earth location would you most like to visit?
     The Shire, Mirkwood, Fangorn, Rivendell, Lothlorien, Edoras, Beorn's house, ... all of Rohan, Helm's Deep  ... everywhere, only not Mordor actually.

6. Are there any secondary characters you think deserve more attention?
     I have always wanted to hear more of the other Istari, Gandalf's co-wizards - I would like to hear the true story, not the strangely distorted version from the movies ;) I wonder if Tom Bombadil is one of them ... lor at least related. And what about Beorn? ... So many questions.

7. Would you rather attend Faramir's wedding or Samwise's wedding?
     Rosie and Sam's wedding. I am much more drawn to the cosy and abundant hobbit parties than to grandiose state happenings - these are what I like to watch on TV, but to attend, a Hobbit wedding wins!

8. How many books by J.R.R. Tolkien have you read?
     I think I've read every fiction book he ever wrote, and I even read bits of his scholarly works.

9. Are there any books about Middle-earth or Professor Tolkien (but not written by him) that you recommend?
     J.R.R. Tolkien - A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter.

10. List up to ten of your favourite lines/quotations from the Middle-earth books and/or movies.
     It is the songs that really stays with me, and I am hard put to find a favourite here. It depends on time, mood and place.
     But the best performed song is according to me Far over the misty Mountains from the first Hobbit movie. It was just perfect - as were all the music in that part. we were sorely disappointed this was not continued in the two sequels.

Sunday Selections #2 -- Lissa's Scavenger Hunt

Lissa is hosting a Blog-Birthday Party. One of the activities is a scavenger hunt. I took up the challenge and found all the items on my - quite messy - desk. The objects were moved to my mousepad to have their photo taken.

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Lissa holder virtuel fødselsdag på sin Blog. En af hendes selskabslege er en skattejagt. Jeg besluttede mig for at lege med, og for at finde alting her på mit rodede skrivebord. De blev flyttet hen på musemåtten for at blive fotograferet.

This card can be found at Lissa's place. I ticked off the items.

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Listen kan findes over hos Lissa, dog uden hakker, som jeg tilføjede efterhånden som jeg fandt tingene.

1. Something with numbers. A die12 from a role-playing game

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1. Noget, der har tal på. En 12siders terning fra rollespil.

2. Something sparkly. The yellow pencil is a sparkly one. This picture also covers
11. Something long and narrow. The white pencil. And
12. Something orange.

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2. Noget, der blinker eller lyser. Den gule farveblyant er en med glimmer. Dette billede dækker også
11. Noget, der er langt og smalt. En hvid blyant. Og
12. Noget, der er orange. En orange farveblyant.

3. Something heartshaped. This was the hardest, but flotsam from the Owlets' activities tend to end up on my desk. Among these this from the Donald Duck weekly.

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3. Noget, der er hjerteformet. Den var den sværeste at finde. Heldigvis ender Ugleungernes efterladenskaber ofte på mit skrivebord. Her er det en bingoplade fra Anders And.

4. Something having a variety of colours. This scrambled Rubik's cube fits the bill. Not so the several more puzzled ones that lay together with it.

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4. Noget, der er mangefarvet. En kludret Rubiksterning har mange farver, i modsætning til de samlede, som den stod sammen med.

5. Something with eyes. A stamp of the queen of Denmark, who is celebrating her 50 anniversary as a reigning monarch in these days.
  It's an old stamp (date of issue May 9, 2001), the postage would have to be doubled to send a letter today.

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5. Noget, der har øjne. Dette gamle frimærke (fra 9. maj 2001) af dronningen passer godt. Og hun fejrer jo også sit regeringsjubilæum i disse dage. Portoen for et brev er lige præcis det dobbelte i dag.

6. Something triangular. This one is made of triangles.

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6. Noget, der er trekantet. Denne her er lavet af trekanter.

7. Something made from ceramics or looking like it was. A cup from a tea party set, that once upon a time was used for much play tea. The elf on the cup is called Cirkeline. She's pure magic.

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7. Noget, der er lavet af keramik, eller ser sådan ud. Denne dukkethekop med Cirkeline har været med til mange theselskaber da Ugleungerne var mindre. Nu passer den på ekstra lego-dele. 

8. Something showing the letters NY. More Owlet-flotsam, this time collecting cards once given when you bought for certain amounts at the local supermarket. We never got them all.

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11. Noget, der indeholder bogstaverne N og Y. Flere af Ugleungernes efterladenskaber. Samlekort fra et supermarked, vi fik aldrig ret mange af dem.

9. Something having an animal shape. A dragon-stamp, and it's blue!

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9. Noget, der er formet som et dyr. Et drage-stempel, og det er blåt!

10. Something smaller than my fist. A thimble and a red button. Orphans of a long forgotten project - left in a small crate with some pins, moustache-shaped foam cut-outs (from a New Year some years ago) and a blue plastic lizard.

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10. Noget, der er mindre end min knyttede hånd: En rød knap og et fingerbøl fra et længst glemt projekt. De lå i en æske sammen med nogle nipsenåle, overskæg-formede mosgummi-dimser fra en bordbombe og et blåt plastik-firben (nok samme sted fra). Jeg har for længst glemt, hvad jeg havde forestillet mig at lave med den samling.


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J.R.R.Tolkien 130 Years

I bow to the master of tales and poetry on his 130 birthday. May he be celebrated in Nûmenor or wherever he is today!

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,
The wind was moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale;
The dragon's ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!

 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Sunday Selections -- Inktober Week 4 -- Life in Colour

Advarsel! Mange billeder!  --  Warning! Loads of photos!

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Søndagsbillederne er denne gang en fornøjelig tur gemmen måneden.

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For Sunday Selections this time, some happy photos from all of October.

     En statue af Sankt Antonius, min yndlingshelgen. Statuen befinder sig i vores gamle sognekirke i København. Vi var der til en glædelig begivenhed.

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  Saint Anthony, my favourite saint. This statue can be found in our old parish in Copenhagen. I re-found him as we were there in a happy occasion.

Den glædelige begivenhed var, at vores ældste barnebarn, den Lille Løve, var til førstekommunion.

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The happy occasion was the first holy communion of our oldest grandkid, The Little Lion.

Der var fest bagefter, og i festlokalerne hang denne vidunderlige kiwi og dens venner.

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 Afterwards we celebrated; this kiwi, and its friends hang in the rooms where we celebrated.

     Nogle dage senere mødtes Storesøster, den Lille Løve, Ædelstenen, Spirillen, Minimax og Uglemor med Uglemormor i Helsingør, hvor Uglemormor stadig bor.  Vi spiste sushi og snakkede.

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  Some days later, BigSis, Little Lion, The Gem, Minimax, Marsupilami, GrannyOwl and I met and ate sushi in Elsinore, where GrannyOwl still lives.

     I Hillerød, hvor vi skifter tog, groede dette lille birketræ stadig, nu i efterårsfarver.

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  In Hillerød, where we change trains, the small, defiantly growing birch tree was changing colour.

     Samme dag købte vi også et nyt strygejern. Vi kalder det Hvæsende drage, fordi det lyder sådan. Det gamle sprang stilfærdigt i luften, det blev meget varmt, jeg slukkede det, og da jeg tændte det igen, skete der ikke noget. Det var også over 20 år gammelt.

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That day we also bought ourselves a new iron. The old one peacefully exploded. It got hotter and hotter, I turned it off, and when i turned it on again after cooling down, nothing happened. Well, it was over 20 years old. The new one has already gotten its nickname: Hissing Dragon after its sounds noises.

Til min fødselsdag fik jeg en buket klokkeblomster. En af stilkene lever stadig og er flot.

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One of my gifts for my birthday were a bouquet of bell shaped flowers, one stem is still surviving.

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     Og nu til tegneriet. Jeg er mere tilfreds med mine tegninger, og derfor kommer de enkeltvis efter dato og stikord. Simple Daily Drawing har fine stikord og en sød gruppe på Facebook. Jeg vil forsøge at fortsætte med deres stikord også efter oktober er slut.

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  And then to the drawing. I am much happier with my drawings this week. The prompts from Simple Daly Drawing, and the supportive people in the group, has done much to push me onwards, And I am going try to carry on with the drawing following their prompts once October has ended. I'm going to show this weeks drawings not in a mosaic, but one by one:

24 SDD • Tall - høj     Inktober • Extinct - uddød (not used - ikke brugt)

25 SDD • International Art - International kunst     Inktober • Splat

26 SDD • The Addams Family      Inktober • Connect - forbinde

     Teksten siger: Jeg har altid betragtet The Addams Family som en udløber af "Fem børn og Det". Denne forbindelse fik mig til at tegne en Psammyade.

27 SDD • Meteor Shower - Meteorsværm (shower betyder også brusebad)     Inktober • Spark - gnist

28 SDD • Boop! - Det at 'dutte' især kæledyr på snuden     Inktober • Crispy - kruset

29 SDD • Witch's Brew - Heksebryg     Inktober • Patch - lap

... also in the wizarding world      ... også i troldmandsverdenen

Bonus Witch's Brew:

Cloud in a Bottle is a Minecraft thing. The Owlets told me: "Mom, it does not look like this!" Sorry, that's how I imagined it.

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Cloud in a Bottle er en ting fra Minecraft. Ugleungerne fortalte mig bagefter at den slet ikke så sådan ud. Men det var det, jeg forestillede mig, da jeg hørte navnet.

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     Til sidst månedens sidste Life in Colour. Jeg tog mit nye kamera, gik på jagt efter orange ting, og fandt ud af at appelsiner - selv om de altså hedder "oranger" på flere sprog - ikke er særligt orange.

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  Finally for the Life in Colour challenge. So I picked up my new camera and went hunting for orange and was surprised that oranges are actually more yellow than orange.

Så kiggede jeg mig omkring, og så en blomst på en plakat

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I looked around and noticed a flower on a poster

Og en gymnastikbold.

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And a stickball.

Men hvad kan dog være mere passende og orange end et græskar?

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But what could be a better finale to ORANGE than a pumpkin?

Sunday Selections -- InkTober 2nd week

Mens jeg sad og overvejede InkTobers seneste stikord, faldt jeg over InkTober52 (et stikord pr. uge - ikke opdateret siden december 2021), og derfra fandt jeg videre til Simple Daily Drawing (et stikord om dagen året rundt). Og så lovede jeg mig selv at hvis jeg fortsatte med en tegning om dagen, så måtte jeg bruge noget bedre end det gamle kladdehæfte med gennemsigtige sider, jeg har brugt hidindtil. Og i dag, søndag, har jeg søreme fundet min gamle skitseblok frem.  😇

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 While participating in the InkTober challenge, I stumbled over Simple Daily Drawing (a drawing prompt a day all year round) via InkTober52 (a prompt a week - not updated since December 2021). And I promised myself that if I did continue doing this, from Sunday (today) I would use a better drawing pad than the old, repurposed school notebook with far too thin and transparent pages I've been using so far. I have found my old sketch block as a reward for persisting 😇

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     Så, ikke mere snak, ugens tegninger; øh, jeg synes selv, jeg bliver lidt bedre, og jeg har faktisk lyst til at tegne.
     Og nu væver jeg, snakker udenom, kommer med undskyldninger og tøver igen. Kom så!

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Well no more talking. I think that I am improving, and I feel more drawn to drawing, aka it's not always a chore any more.
Oh, still temporizing, procrastinating, playing for time, are we, MotherOwl?

En smule forklaring: den 12.: En Hearthstone fra World of Warcraft (ikke fra kortspillet), den bruges, når man er stuck.
Den 14.: Tick betyder tæge, hak eller tik (som i tik-tak) på engelsk, og jeg kunne ikke beslutte mig.
Den 16.: Stikord Fluffy, blød, men  den trehovedede hund i De vises sten, Harry Potter 1, hedder også Fluffy.

A bit of an explanation: 12th depicts a Hearthstone form World of Warcraft (not the card game). Used when stuck.
14th Tick, I could not decide which tick to go for.
16th: Fluffy is also the name of the three headed dog from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

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Et par fotos fra den forgangne uge skal der altså også være plads til

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I have to find room for those photos from the past week as well.

Dobbelt regnbue i nabolaget.
Double rainbow near home.

"Smok" betyder drage på polsk - mon ikke Smaug har sit navn derfra?
Smok is Polish for Dragon, I wonder if that was what inspired Smaug?

Mere polsk, broderemønstre på en æske med pølser.
More from Poland. Embroidery patterns on a crate of sausages.

Og to Ugle-bogholdere fra vores lokale bibliotek.
And two Owl book holders from our local library.

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Og så til noget ORANGE til Life in Colour. Dråberne dukkede jo op, og en af dem hedder faktisk Orange. Tegningen er farvelagt på computer (med Paint), det er ikke fantastisk, jeg kan meget bedre lide mine gamle, tyske vandfarver ... det kommer måske, vi har jo efterårsferie. JUHUU!
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  And to end on  a lighter note, and with something ORANGE for Life in Colour. The Droplets came alive again, as you can see in the drawings. One of them are called Orange. The drawing is coloured using Microsoft Paint. Not fab, I might find my tried and true German watercolours in the coming week - Autumn holidays YAHOO!

WfW - 23.12

Today is the day before Christmas Eve - where we celebrate in Denmark. We're far too impatient to wait for Christmas morning - But it is also Wednesday, and Elephant's Child has given us two times six words and a bonus. I cite her:
This week's prompts are:

Celebration,
Birth
Bells
Majesty
Small
Forgotten
     And/or
Bay
Half
Hope
Sister
Book
Hunt

And another (as always optional addition). In memory of Jo Wake, I would love it if you could include the word dragon in your stories.

As I too am a dragon lover I'd like to do this. I liked Jo's stories of  the dragon and his witch. I regret that she never got to the ending of it. And this made me think of the mini-series Here There be Dragons, that I wrote in April and Jo's encouraging words upon reading it. I want to take up the thread from that story.

The bells in the small belfry on top of the Unicorn Farm could faintly be heard tolling three times as Susan, Heidi, Lis, Tage and their parents Sandra and Kai arrived at the small bay.
"I feel like I've been here before," Sandra said all of a sudden.
"So do I," Heidi said. "But it feels blurry, remote, like a half forgotten dream."
Her sister smiled, "I feel the same way."
"Well," Tage said. "The only thing I feel, is hungry. How about spreading out our stuff here. This place looks nice enough for our lunch al fresco."
Susan smiled. You were never bored in the company of Heidi and her family.
After the ample and tasty lunch they just sat or lay in the grass enjoying the warmth of the sun, and the beauty of the scenery. Susan was nodding over her book, when Kai looked up: "Don't move!" he said softly. "We have a visitor!"
"Good day, tiny mortals!" the dragon said. It's voice was deep and melodious, like a giant silver bell. "You have returned."
"Returned?" Tage said.
"Sorry, what!" Kai added. "As far as I remember, I was never here before."
"Your wife and daughters seem to disagree," the dragon said.
Meanwhile Susan was admiring the dragon. Its belly was midnight blue, and its wings were shimmering  in all the colours of the rainbow. She had never seen anything as beautiful.
"Puny mortals," the dragon said. "You are trespassing once again on  our premises. But this time you will not be roared into oblivion."
A memory emerged and unfolded inside Susan's mind. She saw this beautiful dragon aloft, soaring over a sand-coloured mate, nesting around some eggs. Somewhere near here, maybe. .. It was still dream like, but becoming more and more focused each second.
"Today," the dragon continued, "we hold a celebration in honour of the birth of our offspring."
The eggs had hatched, maybe today or the day before, Susan realized. She felt happy. Fulfilled.
"Today is an auspicious day. You are invited, no  called to witness the naming of our offspring. Follow me."
As spellbound the five humans followed the wonderful dragon down to the rivulet, over it and into a clearing on the other side of it. There the lady dragon sat, her colouring now resembled that of her mate, only a lighter blue hue on belly and wing undersides. She was bigger by at least a handspan, and her head shot up at the noise of their arrival. In front of her sat five perfect miniature dragons, each not bigger than a big dog.
Kai bowed deeply, and the rest of them did their very best to salute the dragons in the same way.
"Your majesty," Kai said, getting up from the bow. "We are very pleased to be here on this propitious day. We bring with us nothing to give you but our hope for an fair future for all of us, and we feel ashamed for our emptyhandedness.
"Your words are as sincere as your hearts, I see" the lady dragon spoke. Her voice too was deep and melodious. The tiny dragonets at her feet all looked at the five humans.
Their mother spoke to them in a high pitched, chirping language. Beautiful, but very strange.  Even though they could not understand Dragon, the meaning was clear. She warned the tiny dragons against people.
"And now to the naming." The lady dragon said. "It is very simple, really. You just repeat the names as I say them."
She gently picked up the tiniest dragonet: "By stone and fire, by earth and water. Be known to the world as Shayla!"
"Shayla!" repeated the five humans along with the male dragon. Then the female dragon put the dragonet down, and picked up the next one: "By water and earth, by fire and  stone. Be known to the world as Mathys!"
"Mathys!" They said in unison.
And again a new dragonet was raised to the sky: "By water and earth, by fire and  stone. Be known to the world as Tarquil!"
"Tarquil!" they echoed.
The next to last dragonet was encased in her mothers claws and raised to the skies: "By stone and fire, by earth and water. Be known to the world as Tatsu!"
"Tatsu!" They all repeated, Susan recognized the word from Kensuke's Japanese books, something to do with water, she thought.
And as the last dragonet was enclosed in the motherly claws it raise its tiny head and roared. A tiny, defiant sound.
The dragons raised their heads a bit more, Susan would have said thy smiled.
"We've better get this one named," the female dragon said. "By water and earth, by fire and  stone. Be known to the world as Alcalador!"
"Alcalador!" they repeated.

Sunday Selections #1

Elephant's Child tells about Sunday Selections and its story:

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.
 
The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside, and Elephant's Child has accepted the mantle.

The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to Elephant's Child.

 This Thursday we went to the Zoo. Surprisingly many had had the same idea, social distancing was difficult, some things were closed, but the animals were fantastic!
  We watched the elephants for a long time. The old ones were walking slowly and gracefully around their enclosure, one of them was playing with a ball that drops a treat if handled right. In the end a treat dropped, and the elephant got it before the observant crow. Meanwhile two small elephants played in the water, splashing, swimming and trying to keep one another down - of course they breathed through their trunks, so no matter how long their bodies were under water, they were in no danger. One of them was very hairy and turned almost black when wet, so that its tiny tusks stood out in contrast to its black body.
  I don't know why I forgot to take photos of them. But many of the rest of the animals were dutifully photographed.

A live teddybear - he was smiling.

Rikki-tikki-tavi or one of his descendants.

New arrivals in Denmark - Pandas.

Reindeer with the biggest sets of antlers! 

Hedwig!

Sleepy parrots, being watched is just so hard.

 

And yes, we have kangaroos in Denmark too 🌝