esprit de l'escalier: More naturey crap

Definition

[es-pree de less-ka/-iay] (idiom) A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room."

More naturey crap

I promise to return with actual words before the week is up (which means, tonight or tomorrow), but here are some film photos I took a couple of weeks ago on a Sunday hike at the Black Hand Gorge.

Once upon a time there was an actual hand in the sandstone narrows that cut through this area. It was thought that the hand signified that from there til Flint Ridge was a DMZ of sorts. Flint Ridge is where people from many tribes in the area came to get flint for arrow heads and was a safe zone from disputes.

I was really sad to find out there was no more hand. We blasted the hand when we widened the narrows to build the Erie Canal in 1828.