Chinook salmon at man-made fish ladder, Thornbury, ON, moving from the river into Georgian Bay.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Climbing
Chinook salmon at man-made fish ladder, Thornbury, ON, moving from the river into Georgian Bay.
Orchard
There is a new way of creating orchards and producing good fruit. The old orchards had trees that were taller, difficult to harvest. So, newer, dwarf varieties were tried. Now, the branches of the trees are cut away and pruned, having been planted in laser-straight rows. Wires and poles provide support for them, much as one would find in a vineyard. Apparently the yield is very rich and plentiful. The above picture was taken near Blue Mountains, Ontario.
Wonderfully fruitful, but something seems wrong with all of this . . .
Fading Autumn
Too soon the Summer goes and then the bright Autumn, fading into the cold and snow of Winter. I love the Seasons - but it's all going far too quickly 'round . . .
Barber
Thought I might comment on my last name - BARBER . . .
The Greek name for a barber was κουρεύς, and the Latin tonsor. The term employed in modern European languages is derived from the low Latin barbatorius, which is found in Petronius. The barber of the ancients was a far more important personage than his modern representative. Men had not often the necessary implements for the various operations of the toilet; combs, mirrors, perfumes, and tools for clipping, cutting, shaving, &c. Accordingly the whole process had to be performed at the barber's, and hence the great concourse of people who daily gossiped at the tonstrina, or barber's shop. Besides the duties of a barber and hairdresser, strictly so called, the ancient tonsor discharged other offices. He was also a nail-parer. He was, in fact, much what the English barber was when he extracted teeth, as well as cut and dressed hair. People who kept the necessary instruments for all the different operations, generally had also slaves expressly for the purpose of performing them. The business of the barber was threefold. First there was the cutting of hair: hence the barber's question, πῶς σε κείρω (Plut. De Garrul. 13). For this purpose he used various knives of different sizes and shapes, and degrees of sharpness: hence Lucian (Adv. Indoct. c29), in enumerating the apparatus of a barber's shop, mentions πλῆθος μαχαιριδίων (μάχαιρα, μαχαιρίς, κουρίς are used also, in Latin culter); but scissors, ψαλίς, διπλῇ μάχαιρα (Pollux, II.32; in Latin forfex, axicia) were used too (compare Aristoph. Acharn. 848; Lucian, Pis. c46). Μάχαιρα was the usual word. Irregularity and unevenness of the hair was considered a great blemish, as appears generally, and from Horace (Sat. I.3.31, and Epist. I.1.94), and accordingly after the hair-cutting the uneven hairs were pulled out by tweezers, an operation to which Pollux (II.34) applies the term παραλέγεσθαι. So the hangers-on on great men, who wished to look young, were accustomed to pull out the grey hairs for them (Arist. Eq. 908). This was considered, however, a mark of effeminacy (Gell. VI.12;º Cic. Pro Rosc. Com. 7). The person who was to be operated on by the barber had a rough cloth (ὠμόλινον, involucre in Plautus, Capt. II.2.17) laid on his shoulders, as now, to keep the hairs off his dress, &c. The second part of the business was shaving (radere, rasitare, ξυρεῖν). This was done with a ξυρόν, a novacula (Lamprid. Heliog. c31), a razor (as we, retaining the Latin root, call it), which he kept in a case, θήκη, ξυροθήκη, ξυροδόκης, "a razor-case" (Aristoph. Thesm. 220; Pollux, II.32; Petron. 94). Some who would not submit to the operation of the razor used instead some powerful depilatory ointments, or plasters, as psilothron (Plin. XXXII.10.47;a acida Creta, Martial, VI.93.9; Venetum lutum, iii.74; dropax, iii.74; x.65). Stray hairs which escaped the razor were pulled out with small pincers or tweezers (volsellae, τριχολάβιον) The third part of the barber's work was to pare the nails of the hands, an operation which the Greeks expressed by the words ὀνυχίζειν and ἀπονυχίζειν (Aristoph. Eq. 706; and Schol.; Theophrast. Charact. c26; Pollux, II.146). The instruments used for this purpose were called ὀνυχιστήρια, sc. μαχαίρια (Pollux, X.146).
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The Greek name for a barber was κουρεύς, and the Latin tonsor. The term employed in modern European languages is derived from the low Latin barbatorius, which is found in Petronius. The barber of the ancients was a far more important personage than his modern representative. Men had not often the necessary implements for the various operations of the toilet; combs, mirrors, perfumes, and tools for clipping, cutting, shaving, &c. Accordingly the whole process had to be performed at the barber's, and hence the great concourse of people who daily gossiped at the tonstrina, or barber's shop. Besides the duties of a barber and hairdresser, strictly so called, the ancient tonsor discharged other offices. He was also a nail-parer. He was, in fact, much what the English barber was when he extracted teeth, as well as cut and dressed hair. People who kept the necessary instruments for all the different operations, generally had also slaves expressly for the purpose of performing them. The business of the barber was threefold. First there was the cutting of hair: hence the barber's question, πῶς σε κείρω (Plut. De Garrul. 13). For this purpose he used various knives of different sizes and shapes, and degrees of sharpness: hence Lucian (Adv. Indoct. c29), in enumerating the apparatus of a barber's shop, mentions πλῆθος μαχαιριδίων (μάχαιρα, μαχαιρίς, κουρίς are used also, in Latin culter); but scissors, ψαλίς, διπλῇ μάχαιρα (Pollux, II.32; in Latin forfex, axicia) were used too (compare Aristoph. Acharn. 848; Lucian, Pis. c46). Μάχαιρα was the usual word. Irregularity and unevenness of the hair was considered a great blemish, as appears generally, and from Horace (Sat. I.3.31, and Epist. I.1.94), and accordingly after the hair-cutting the uneven hairs were pulled out by tweezers, an operation to which Pollux (II.34) applies the term παραλέγεσθαι. So the hangers-on on great men, who wished to look young, were accustomed to pull out the grey hairs for them (Arist. Eq. 908). This was considered, however, a mark of effeminacy (Gell. VI.12;º Cic. Pro Rosc. Com. 7). The person who was to be operated on by the barber had a rough cloth (ὠμόλινον, involucre in Plautus, Capt. II.2.17) laid on his shoulders, as now, to keep the hairs off his dress, &c. The second part of the business was shaving (radere, rasitare, ξυρεῖν). This was done with a ξυρόν, a novacula (Lamprid. Heliog. c31), a razor (as we, retaining the Latin root, call it), which he kept in a case, θήκη, ξυροθήκη, ξυροδόκης, "a razor-case" (Aristoph. Thesm. 220; Pollux, II.32; Petron. 94). Some who would not submit to the operation of the razor used instead some powerful depilatory ointments, or plasters, as psilothron (Plin. XXXII.10.47;a acida Creta, Martial, VI.93.9; Venetum lutum, iii.74; dropax, iii.74; x.65). Stray hairs which escaped the razor were pulled out with small pincers or tweezers (volsellae, τριχολάβιον) The third part of the barber's work was to pare the nails of the hands, an operation which the Greeks expressed by the words ὀνυχίζειν and ἀπονυχίζειν (Aristoph. Eq. 706; and Schol.; Theophrast. Charact. c26; Pollux, II.146). The instruments used for this purpose were called ὀνυχιστήρια, sc. μαχαίρια (Pollux, X.146).
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