21 December 2009

Oxymoron

I've been planting Quercus Oxymoronicus around the country.
Pen and ink with watercolour 21cm x 15cm. Click to enlarge.

12 comments:

studio lolo said...

I'm a closet tree-hugger. I love this!

Tony LaRocca said...

Would that make it a self destructive tree?

baggelboy said...

As I thought nature kills

Laurel Neustadter said...

The Happening II? :-)

Steve said...

I remember my English teacher Paul Baglow explaining to us once what an oxymoron was. I was fifteen at the time and in love with him and Shakespeare (the conversation was precipitated by a discussion of the oxymoron-laden language of Romeo and Juliet).

Baglow explained the term with examples from heavy metal band names: Iron Maiden for example.

It was at that point that I think I might have thought: isn't being an English teacher just the coolest thing anyone could EVER do?

ElizT said...

Like Eeyore admiring his haycorns?

ElizT said...

[Sorry about that. It was the middle of the night.]

ElizT said...

There is a dress size, PetiteXL.
[sorry about all this]

Kevin Musgrove said...

"PetiteXL" - glorious! Ta for sharing that one, ElizT!


Ellis, you've amazed, amused and baffled me throughout the year. Have a good Christmas.

problemchildbride said...

happy New Year, Ellis! Quercus you got going on for you. Oxymoronicus I think is an unguent to remove unsightly hairy warts from maidens who are actually sweet and good and not at all horrible. But who am i to tell you how to celebrate the new year! Do it with an axe! Do it with wood (more fun). Do it warted or un-so. Just keep we blog-snoopers in oddities to look at.
All the best, wierdo.
xx

Oscar Grillo said...

So did Jehovah.

Tororo said...

When the woodman enters the woods, the trees do their best to comfort themselves by whispering to each other: "The axehandle is on our side".
(inspired by Eric Chevillard)