CAPTION COMPETITION!!

Here is a picture of a tree. Can you guess what it is?

An Intriguing Question

"If it took a man a week to walk a fortnight, how long would it take to sandpaper an elephant into a greyhound?"

(Billy Bond, Limavady)

Any ideas?

Some thoughts from Shelley

EXCERPT FROM:

Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3

Alas! I have nor hope nor health,

Nor peace within nor calm around,

Nor that content surpassing wealth

The sage in meditation found,

And walked with inward glory crowned -

Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure

Others I see whom these surround -

Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; -

To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.

4
Some might lament that I were cold,

As I, when this sweet day is done,

Which my lost heart, too soon grown old,

Insults with this untimely moan;

They might lament -for I am one

Whom men love not, -and yet regret,

Unlike this day which, when the sun

Shall on its stainless glory set,

Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet.

5
Yet now despair itself is mild,

Even as the winds and waters are;

I could lie down like a tired child,

And weep away the life of care

Which I have borne and yet must bear,

Till death like sleep might steal on me,

And I might feel in the warm air

My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea

Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.

We have nothing left but our own thoughts

Ohhhhh

What's this?? How does it work?? Ah I 'm sure I'll work it out eventually.