Down The Rabbit Hole

Recently I pulled off my bookshelf an annotated version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. I take great delight in the twisted logic and nonsensical poems.

I took a couple walks this past weekend - and didn't take a lot of pictures since I wanted some time to myself. Some "me time". I think its important to lose ourselves in wonder of our surroundings from time to time without a thought of the external world.

So the pictures are unexplained - but I wanted to share them with you today.


Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!

No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow. (Note: and undoubtably two dollars short too.)


I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning?

I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!


Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

Alice: I don't much care where.

The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.

Alice: ...so long as I get somewhere.

The Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.


We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Subjects like Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.


If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't.

And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?


Alice: Oh, but that's nonsense. Flowers can't talk.

The Rose: But of course we can talk, my dear.

Orchid: If there's anyone around worth talking to.

Daisy: Or about.

[giggles]

Bud: I think she's pretty.

The Rose: Quiet, Bud.


Alice: And how many hours a day did you do lessons?

The Mock Turtle: Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.

Alice: What a curious plan!

The Gryphon: That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day.


`The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright --
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done --
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"

The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying over head --
There were no birds to fly.


Daisy: What kind of a garden do you come from?

Alice: Oh, I don't come from any garden.

Daisy: Do you suppose she's a wildflower?


'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!"

I think this cloud looks like a frumious Bandersnatch. What do you think it looks like?