I'm just another plagiarist... pickin' at the blogs I haunt... pickin' up what I like... and think you might like too.
Heh...
1862 – Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla. Beating the French makes this a Mexican holiday. Germany celebrates the days it beat the French: Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, etc.
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson
Taken from Seattle's
Space Needle
Some galaxy orange on the needle
... the original color from 60 yrs ago
Mt. Rainier from Seattle
https://www.intellectualfroglegs.com/episodes/shoulder-to-the-wheel