From the Telegraph:
A weather-damaged tree branch revealed an image with an uncanny resemblance to the Queen when it was felled.
Uncanny resemblance to the Queen? Dame Maggie Smith? I don't think so. It's very like the portrait of me by Picasso that I have hanging on my wall. It's amazing!
Looks more to me like a Modigliani.
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, you definitely have a point. The portrait was painted during Picasso's Modigliani period.
ReplyDeletePretty weird.
ReplyDeleteI think it is Jay-zus...
ReplyDeleteNow, now. Let's not quarrel.
ReplyDeleteIt's Jay-zus's mummy. And Mimi, if you were present when Picasso painted her and still have the picture...let me adopt you! I'll use all the money wisely. Promise.
ReplyDeleteThe Tree of Turin?
ReplyDeleteErika, my new adopted - or honorary? - daughter!
ReplyDeleteOrmonde, excellent. Turin, Tennessee.
Why are these stories so often highlighted by the British press? The US seems to be a constant source of amusement for them.
It sort of looks the way I feel this morning.
ReplyDeleteErika, are you sure? I've never seen a female mummy. They're usually played by Boris Karloff.
ReplyDeleteWhose Queen would that be then? Doesn't look much like ours.
ReplyDeleteKate, please!
ReplyDeleteDP, you needn't ask. To the great mass of Anglophiles this side of the pond, there is only one Queen.
Maybe you Americans are one step ahead of us spelling it mom / mommy.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, Kate, this will completely destroy my confidence. You won't believe what images will come before my mental eye now every time my children call me.
I'd better not tell them!
Mimi, if I adopt you, do I become your adopted daughter?
And I'm sure the British press only highlights these stories because we're jealous. You're clearly God's own country and Jesus appears to you much more frequently than to us!
It's shroud of Turin Jesus. Or else the robot in Fritz Lang's Metropolis...I'm not sure which...
ReplyDeletekirke - but what about the halo!
ReplyDeleteMimi, if I adopt you, do I become your adopted daughter?
ReplyDeleteWhatever you say, Erika.
That figure in the tree? It's someone. And it's a miracle. I know that much. Many scholars will study it and, quite likely, scholarly papers will be written arguing for this person or that person. We shall see.
Grandmère Mimi has made a egregious error by claiming that an image appearing in tree branch bears a resemblance to a portrait of her painted by Picasso. The Telegraph had reported that the image resembled the Queen.
ReplyDeleteThis so clearly demonstrates the godless secular inclination of the British press. Everyone knows that when a face is noticed in a piece of wood or a piece of toast, it is a religious figure.
It isn't Jesus, as one commenter noted, because the face does not have a forked beard and Malibu-Beach-blond hair and blue eyes. It isn't Mary because because there is no blue-trimmed veil.
So who? It is certainly St. Bertha, Queen of Kent (c. AD 565-612). Perhaps that is what The Telegraph meant. The similarities are uncanny. Do you not see this?
Yeah, Erika, but I think that robot lit up when it got zapped with the essence of that chick in Metropolis. But it has been a long time since Turner Classic Movies has shown that one on late Sunday night....
ReplyDeleteDan, there's a good deal of sense in what you say. Tradition leads us in the direction that faces appearing in the most unexpected and unlikely places must be from the holy class of people. May I suggest an alternative to St. Bertha? St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, (c. 1045 – November 16, 1093) seems a more likely candidate. Of course, that just my opinion.
ReplyDeleteIts definately the Belgian Queen, or the Dutch. Maybe the Swedish. No, the Norwegian, or the Spanish.
ReplyDeleteNo. She's Danish.
Or is it, after all the Queen of Canada?