en User talk:Sminthopsis84

My bad

Please accept my apologies about that. Abductive (reasoning) 01:56, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TFA

Thank you and team today for Cucurbita, "about the genus of plants called squash, pumpkin, and/or gourd depending on local parlance. They are native to the Western Hemisphere. The fruits of this genus are an important source of human food and play several roles in human culture. We've enjoyed working on this for over a year and hope you enjoy reading it. There are many people without whom we could not have gotten this article this far; too many of them to list here."! - My small share: I took the Madrid pic. Rich Main page today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:15, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The pic I took of Cucurbita was replaced by white space - sad for me. - More images from the Madrid Botanical Gardens if you click on "places". - For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gerda. I've been keeping my head down after a long wikibreak and mostly wrestling with categories in Commons, when not despairing about international news to the point of incapacity. Interesting Wiktionary gloss for TFA. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 23:39, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. - Do you think that you could restore he pic to Cucurbita, for my personal connection, and showing the great array - however small - at a notable place. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:40, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What an impressive life she had, and to keep going for so long after such experiences ... About the Cucurbita, I'll work on it over the next couple of weeks to see what I can do to polish. The photo includes examples of Lagenaria fruits, and it will be a slow process. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, also for the caption fix! - I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]