No place like home

 

10-29 homesteadingToday’s Halloween solution is not to a State of Mind, but to a State itself. The pointer aims at Badlands National Park. Rhinos used to live there. There is still time to visit, if you like.

This area is just part of our old Rhino Stomping Grounds. The RFamily was a New World mega-influence Back When (which covers roughly 35 million years of development, they say. Rhinos certainly weren’t counting.)

You doubtless recall: Rhinos did much familial branching in North America. Then, 5 or 10 million years ago or so, the weather changed, and We folded our tents. We respond to the Call of the Wild. We are Nature’s playthings. And were then, too.

Rhino Finery: not only enchanting but educational. Amazing!

Exotica

10-28 CleoP

Today’s ensemble salutes Cleopatra, though We don’t actually remember her at all. Her daily doings simply did not overlap with Rhinodom. Doubtless a credit to her kin, dealing with the cards she was dealt. (Delta or DeNile humor to follow.)

Egypt was a Fashion Hub back when, and that’s what We are concentrating on. Lots of “hubba-hubba”.

The Crocodile is not real; they are uncooperative and they bite.

Jeepers Creepers

10-26 HHouse

You are Right: Rhinos accept No Limitations! You name it, We can comprehend it, at least mostly, or almost. Close works in so many areas of life, why not this one?

The featured ensemble works better in open spaces than in confined ones. Can’t have it all.

Strange, the lengths to which We will go for Candy Corn.

Friendly Persuasions

10-26 ThisLittleNumber

Some Critters have a feeble sense of Halloween Outfitting.

Still, some Rhinos really have the knack; We are called Costumiers, on the good days. We just sidle up and make wee recommendations from over the shoulder, and then “poof”, We’re gone. We are cunning as well as fashion-forward.

Not our style to interfere. Suggest perhaps, cluck & murmur, but not interfere.

Teamwork

10-25 TWhisper

Halloween is a fine time of year to exercise a Rhino’s skills as a Toad Whisperer. Toads are not always cooperative, but if we get the dates right, they will play along. If they won’t, it makes very little difference, as it’s all hypothetical in the first, and last, place.

One drawback of Toad Whispering is that Toads are not quick. One thing for sure, Toads do not scoot. If We want candy, We have to hope for passers-by to supply it. And flies, since it is a cooperative arrangement.

Toads have many Dark Secrets, but We don’t understand them- or remember them. Whether the Toads whisper or not.

GrapeAttitude

9-30 SourGrape

Rhinos do not complain. There is nobody to complain to, which has a big impact when it’s time for whining. It’s not that We don’t know how; We just have no audience. Who would be interested?

The picture is just to show that We could be Sour, in case We had to.

Rhinos are attentive to expanding our emotional repertoire. Gifted, that’s Us.