2019 - Day 199/166 - Thursday...Evince...

It cannot be said that 'no snakes were harmed' for the photographic archiving and documentation of this event. We have lived out here for ten years, and we have never seen (or heard) a rattle snake. The people we bought the property from said they 'very often' saw rattle snakes around the property. I have been startled (and screamed like a girl) over rat snakes, but aside from the surprise factor, I have gotten used to them, and take a certain amount of pride posting selfies of 'me and the snake', just prior to the snakes re-homing in the neighbors pasture. This particular snake may qualify for a circus sideshow, since it seems to be a 'headless' rattler. I can neither confirm nor deny that, perhaps, the snake came to some mortal harm when confronted with the box blade of the neighbors tractor. Let me be clear, I can neither confirm nor deny, but I do wonder what happened to the rattle.

Evince -- Verb. 1. to constitute outward evidence of. 2. to display clearly. reveal. "The librarian said nothing...Without a word, with the utmost economy, he evinced a denial." Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Phoenix," 1982

Did You Know? Let us conquer any uncertainty you may have about the history of evince. It derives from Latin evincere, meaning "to vanquish" or "to win a point," and can be further traced to vincere, Latin for "to conquer." In the early 1600s, evince was sometimes used in the senses "to subdue" or "to convict of error," meanings evincing the influence of its Latin ancestors. It was also sometimes used as a synonym of its cousin convince, but that sense is not obsolete. One early meaning, "to constitute evidence of," has hung on, however, and in the 1800s it was joined by another sense, "to reveal."