tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post623826367353699482..comments2023-11-18T09:51:52.115+10:30Comments on Medlar Comfits: Medlars in spring, and their companionsanna tambourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-80970942371310640342010-11-27T17:49:16.873+10:302010-11-27T17:49:16.873+10:30Me thanks you for your thinks. You knows but you a...Me thanks you for your thinks. You knows but you are so gracious about it. I have rewritten the whole post because of what you have generously put here. What a wonderful quote. There is no excuse for my mistake, and I just hope I haven't made more. This wealth of ignorance that I keep discovering more of in myself, does restrain me from posting many pictures that I take of ? and ? and ?anna tambourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-62414535417622809502010-11-27T13:27:17.173+10:302010-11-27T13:27:17.173+10:30methinks the 'thomisids' are rather saltic...methinks the 'thomisids' are rather salticids, the family that 'dances with pantomimic gestures.'<br /><br />your compatriot Keith C. McKeown has written:<br /><br />"They are without doubt the most accomplished exponents of the dance in the animal kingdom. They are spider ballet dancers. Under the stress of their love-making they posture and dance wildly before the admiring female, who in some species finally joins him in a pas de deux.... one is almost impelled to the belief that they are aware of their own beauty, and know how best to show it off to the full."budakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07693717163007410639noreply@blogger.com