Wednesday, March 26, 2008

sky kittens


we like the contrast between the catkins, now out in abundance, and the deep blue sky. Presumably catkin is a corruption of cats' skins but ... it turns out , on good authority (OED of etymology), that it probably comes from a corruption of the dutch word katteken or kitten, or the French word chaton.

1 comment:

Tara said...

in the US, they're cat willows...