Today was a better than average day for image documentation. I have a photo of a class I was in...all day class...train-the-trainer for Legal I & II Updates. The class goes in to effect January 1st. There are several photos of a wreck I came upon at the Walburg exit. There are photos of MORE emergency vehicles arriving to the wreck scene. Today is the annual Bratwurst dinner conducted by one of the group of Lutherans (the breakaway branch) in Walburg. And then there is the photo I am choosing for this journal entry, because I think it is the most interesting of the possibilities. It is of EVEN MORE emergency vehicles arriving on the scene in Walburg, but from the vantage point of my rear view mirror. If you look closely at the picture, you can see the black side view mirror of the truck behind me...but from this angle, it looks like the truck is mostly inside my car. I expect it was a woman driving the truck...women are the ones that ride a few inches from your car while driving down the Interstate at excessively high speeds. Please address your complaints to the Human Resources Department, care of this blog. Be prepared to wait in line, because there are plenty of people filing complaints ahead of you.Lanuginous -- Adjective. covered with down or fine soft hair. "A large species with the stem and leaves sparsely lanuginous." N B Wyeth & Thomas Nuttall, "Plants of the Rocky Mountains," 1834
Did You Know? You're likely to come across lanuginous in only a few contexts, botany and spelling bees being the best candidates. In other contexts, the more common term is downy. Lanuginous has an unsurprising pedigree. It's from the Latin word lanuginosus, which is in turn from lanugo, the Latin word for "down." (Lanugo is also an English word used especially to refer to the soft wooly hair that covers the fetus of some mammals.) Lanugo itself is from lana, meaning "wool," a root also at work in lanolin, the term for wool grease that's refined for use in ointments and cosmetics.
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