On the 5th here, postings on the patron saint of bears and on Swiss saintly dogs (with a bow to the city of Bern(e)). Now: more on Bern; on the movie BearCity; and on two California cities of bears, Big Bear City in San Bernardino County and Los Osos in San Luis Obispo County.
Archive for the ‘Placenames’ Category
News for bears: cities of bears
December 8, 2018At duty on the moors
October 26, 2018
(#1)
Ripped from our posts,
Dumped in this wasteland,
Together we rustCrankily, nastily
“Old fool’s gone all mottled”
“Her door don’t work”We hiss and huddle,
Waiting for a ring.Why don’t you
Ever call? Why?
Swiss America
July 21, 2018Wanderings through some Switzerland-related places in the U.S. and through some places fancied to be “the Switzerland of America”:
(#1) City hall of Santa Clara UT, flying the US, Utah, and Swiss flags
(#2) Alpine Ouray CO, in the Rockies
Swiss spin-off: Wallisellen
June 27, 2018The town of Wallisellen in Canton Zürich, Switzerland, has just come up again on this blog (in the posting “Three Züricher Peter Zwickys”), as the site of the Zwicky silk-thread company and now the Zwicky construction and real estate company. Two notable things about the place (from its Wikipedia page): the etymology of its name, which looks like a compound (and is), but without easily identifiable parts; and a Swiss German nonsense rhyme that incorporates the town’s name.
