Lambent Sky, Brumous Band

The good news is that Norbert Nerdley — you may remember him from last year (December 18, 2015) — was not pressured into producing content for today's post.

The other news is that the Lemming has taken another unannounced vacation: but thoughtfully left a picture, and arranged for Narcissus-X to provide his uniquely-insightful commentary. What follows is from Narcissus-X, artist extraordinary with a penchant for penguins.

Penguins in the Night: Narcissus-X Cogitates

Silent sinuous stream; evanescent emanation; brumous band, obscure exhalation under lambent sky!

And did five fumaroles fitfully favor flippant finches? Thrush not for whom the gull toils, it toils four three two one: and done is the mare's nest of quixotic quintile querns.

Yet softly steals the errant mist, and weaves a circle round rippling dreams of penguins in the night.

More, but not less:

• Not entirely without merit; from the Lemming, selected by Narcissus-X
  • "Sunset Halo"
    (March 18, 2016)
  • "An Island: Somewhere"
    (January 29, 2016)
  • "The Touch of a Vanished Hand"
    (October 30, 2015)
  • "Island Flight"
    (September 11, 2015)
  • "Narcissus-X Proffers Plenteous Provisos"
    (August 14, 2015)
• Profundity and penguins, from Narcissus-X
  • "Narcissus-X: Beware the Droste!"
    (January 21, 2016)
  • "Narcissus-X and the Gloomy Dane"
    (August 12, 2015)
  • "Penguin, Penguin, Burning Bright: Narcissus-X Ponders"
    (September 5, 2014)
  • "Narcissus-X: Baleful Bandicoots; Chimeric Penguins"
    (June 16, 2014)
  • "Plutonic Plasticity, Pattering Pizza, Penguin Peccadilloes"
    (June 7, 2014)