Monday 6 June 2011

Sunday's littoral...













Danish migraine tablets...Nivea Classic Care Shine Shampoo: 'reveals fascinating shine in all its facets – silk protein and orchid extracts'...right...'for normal and unproblematic hair'...fishbox from MFV Miraculous, Clogherhead...vegetable crate from Prince de Bretagne: 'Défendons le goût de frais'...an eider on her nest, so a quick retreat...

and Monday's literal....

'The eyelids are formed as small cutaneous folds which about the middle of the third month come together and unite in front of the cornea...'

Gray's Anatomy 'The Organ of Sight'

3 comments:

Big mamma frog said...

Just had to fetch Grays off the shelf.
'...This union is broken up and the eyelids separate before the end of foetal life...'

Jen Hadfield said...

it's wonderful. I'm going to get a copy one day...I gather some editions are meant to be better as others. Which one have you got?

Big mamma frog said...

'The Classic Collector's Edition' 1977. (a revised American, from the 15th English, edition)

The quote from my edition is a little less eloquent:

'...The eyelids are formed at the end of the third month, as small cutaneous folds which come together and unite in front of the globe and cornea...'