Our flooring makeover is in full swing. I’m waiting for some cement to dry, so time to post! A construction (rather de-construction) mystery photo: This is our basement, as it was last month: And this is it today. Note, the poky, dying cactus on the right didn’t make it to the new home … he…
Greetings from a couple of snowy people We had a fun snowstorm that included some low flying clouds that, when parked over the university, combined with the university lights, made it look like they was a massive fire! We just marked our 1 year anniversary here. Seems that was a long enough penance of…
The LDS Salt Lake Temple is pretty amazing. 40 years to build, 210 feet (120 cubits) tall, 9 feet thick walls of hand hewn granite. Care to guess the difference between these two photos? Same wall, same night, one is backwards: I’m guessing you’ve guessed it. The first one is upside down, taken by looking…
The bizarre plant of the month is called Buddha’s Hand: Also know as fingered citron, it looks like a lemon that met a creative chief with amazing carving skills. But reality is stranger, it actually grows this way. They couldn’t fix my camera, so they gave me a new one to replace it! Coolpix S8200. …
2 unrelated mystery photos this week. This first one is NOT an electron microscope photo of flower pollen (I don’t have an electron microscope … yet): The challenge on this photo is not what is in the middle of it, but rather how it was composed: My camera is in the shop again (the 2…
In this month’s mystery photo, you get to guess the purpose of this mini devils tower (end of post answer): We celebrated Rosh Hashanah a few weeks ago, the Jewish New Year, with two other couples. There was a lot of good food, even after our ovens ate much of it in impressive smoke belching…