Taking a break from Japan today. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to the castle and the cranes tomorrow. Just couldn’t resist the prompt for today. EGGS!

Though sometimes I do get a little bored with them and have to jazz them up a bit. And one day a double yolk appeared. My lucky day!

Don’t think I ever cooked it. Not sure what I did do with it.

I just found out that Helen of Troy was born from one of the “twin” eggs laid by Leda as a swan. Or that’s how the myth goes. Who would have thought, another twin story! The saying “ab ovo” Latín for “from the egg” meaning from the very beginning comes from that myth of Leda and Helen of Troy.

Waterford crystal egg. my parents liked to collect them. Something about the perfect shape of an egg attracts artists to make art from it.

So as the saying goes “I won’t put all my eggs in one basket“

Did you know that the origin of that saying goes back to Miquel de Cervantes’ quote in 1605 by Don Quixote: “It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.” 

I wonder if he was talking about his relationship with his prostitute friend Dulcinea?

“Ab ovo ad mala” for my stories of the egg – a saying like from soup to nuts only the Romans started their meal with eggs and ended with apples or other fruit.

Enough ovo-musing for today.

A demain.