The secret double meaning of words

The first time I went camping with my parents, I was barely 2 weeks old. It was in the French Alps, close to Briançon. We returned every year until I was 18 and even after I left home, I still used to join my parents there for a week during summer until they decided at 80 that it was time to stop with mountain climbing.

I believe it's one of the most gorgeous places on earth.

It is completely wild and the fauna and flora are absolutely beautiful.

These were my thoughts when I was in the park this morning. I was wondering why untouched places in the mountains automatically grow beautiful and colorful flowers.

The photo below was taken in a hidden corner of the park. All what grows there is this:

Why aren't beautiful wild flowers growing here? Is it because we are in a city or because humans spoil all that they touch?
 

Project 365+1 - Day 53: Ordinary

I believe words talk to us in two ways. The obvious one is their meaning but the other one is their name itself. We associate the name of a word with his meaning. I explain: You could call your cat Butterfly but probably not Cockroach.

Some words make me laugh, some make me sad, some scare me, some I just don't like.

My favourite word at the moment is Oxymoron. You would have asked me 1 month ago what it means I would have said it's probably describing a complete idiot. Well it happened that Sophie studied this word at school and talked about it during lunch, so I learnt a new English word !

If you don't know yet an oxymoron is a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear side by side, like : almost perfect - clearly confused - Pretty ugly - found missing . . .

I came across that word again in a movie I recently saw and I was so happy to know the meaning that I was probably looking like Mr. Bean when he enters Harrods with his new American Express card.

Anyway, Oxymoron is a word that makes me laugh.

As of the word of today, that's another story. I think it is Avril Lavigne who said something like "I'd rather be anything but ordinary". Ordinary doesn't sound like a nice word to me, neither name nor meaning. 

It is defined in Google as :
a. Of no exceptional ability, degree or quality - Average
b. Of inferior quality, second-rate

So basically, that's the kind of word you don't want to have anything to do with !

But after digging, I found an additional definition:  the usual or normal condition or course of events.
 
This one, I can live with, so this is my photo for today:

The normal course of events is that I keep throwing away my Euromillions ticket because it's never a winner.

Take care everybody, xxx