It's a Simple Explanation

I'll start with my zinchies for the week. My first one was "OOF."  I it saw on some other tanglers blogs from last week. I had to do it, as OOF just sounded weird. The explanation of it's origin is interesting enough, but I didn't see it. So I also drew the source material--the window at the Cloisters. They don't look quite a like, but the OOF is for "out of focus," so I guess if you squint real hard...
And a few more. I read on Genevieve Crabe's blog that she has catalogued 3,000 patterns. At my current pace, I'll have that many done in 9.5 years.

I've been playing with the whole Trees concept for the inaugural TwobyTwo challenge. My citrus trees are spitting fruit, so I took a photograph of the harvest last week:

Yes, I played with the image in Photoshop. It's my day job.

In search of inspiration for the EIM word of the day, I found the most confounding explanation of something or other that I cannot even begin to understand...."Lasso and the Least Angle Regression"
yhat=b0 + b1*x1+ b2*x2 + ... bp*xp
from: Stanford, which says it is a "simple" explanation.
Sure! Riiiiiight. Simple. Back in college, I may have been able to wrap my grey matter around that, perhaps, but now?! Not a chance. No way! I can't even help my daughter with her college math classes let alone whatever that is.
From there it was a jaunt through cowboys, horses, spurs and saddles...with a detour to some beefcake and well, it just deteriorated from there for a bit. I didn't realize it's a specialized genre for romance novels--the whole cowboy thing. And I guess the Australian Thunder Down Under show in Las Vegas has disappeared? Bummers.....
As I tell my children, I may be old, but I'm not dead yet.
Well, ahem, back to the task at hand! Here's my "lasso:"

Happy trails to you...until we meet again.