Jaguar, Jabberwocky & Johanna

mama and baby

Jaguar

These beauties are my favorite of the big cats (though I love all of them). They seem the perfect mix of sleek and powerful. And I especially love how on the black ones, you can still see the spot pattern—that's just cool... it's like they're super secret jaguars disguised as black panthers, though of course black panther is really just a generic term for black big cats, so they really ARE black panthers... but still...



The Jabberwocky

And when I say Jabberwocky, I DO appreciate the actual poem by Lewis Carroll, but I am throwing out some appreciation for sounds in general... how you can generate emotion with nonsense, just because certain sounds carry certain connotations with them. The Jabberwocky is totally creepy and frightening, even though the actual words don't say a thing.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

Read this one first

Johanna Garth and Losing...

Johanna is one of my buddies I met on ABNA, but has become great blogger buddy, too. And if you haven't read her books... they are women's fiction, but the two that are out are Greek mythology retellings based on the Persephone/Hades story. She does a great job. I've read both and thoroughly enjoyed them!

Losing Beauty

Losing Hope

You should follow Johanna's blog, too, though she has taken April off.