15_the_circle | icon meme

[OT from cottage renovations]

a few days ago dakiwiboid posted this icon meme in her journal.

"Comment on this post. I'll choose seven userpics from your profile and you'll reply here or ... [in] your own journal ... explaining what they mean and why you're using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along. Also, feel free to ask me about my icons here, as well. "

it took me a while to get around to responding, but here are the answers.

	this was gift for karenleigh who introduced tadpoles into her water garden and wrote that she had gone "tadpole crazy". such a catchy and felicitous phrase was begging for an iconpic so I took the liberty of putting this one together for the occasion and she was kind and gracious enough to make use of it. if more of us spent a little more time going tadpole crazy, perhaps we'd all be better off.
	an expression of geekish affection. either one Gets It or not, there's no point in explanations. rarely used but, well, now and then it's the right thing.
	lifted from Ghost in the Shell's laughing man virus. somebody else did a much cooler one in which the outer band text properly rotates. used for 'net humour, for interesting hacks (in the archaic sense of the term) or commentary on technology and society.
	as one who hasn't watched television in years there's an awful lot of cultural context that gets right past me. but I've always been intrigued by the questions raised by this glyph, the broadcast medium seal of advertising approval: if a thing is seen on TV, does that make it real? in some way it must be related to the old book writin' don't lie. on the 'net there is at least the underlying assumption that nothing is as it seems to be.
	for the occasional post about London, from an image taken there last spring. all too rarely used.
	this is Spirea prunifolia, back when we had such a thing as rain. I got very wet the day this was taken but it remains one of my faves. used for some grovescape entries.
	Mertensia virginica is the Grove's loveliest native perennial, seen here in early blooming phase. when it comes to Virginia bluebells I go quite cheerfully overboard.