Once upon a time, there was an epic battle, elephant -vs- cockroach: The elephant won. In the process of trail building, I dug up a bunch of greenbrier plants. It is a invasive/nasty/thorny vine, but it’s roots are interesting. Large and oddly shaped, they inspired Helen to pick up a paintbrush: We then re-purposed them,…
This frog could not believe his eyes, flowers in February! Nature is amazing, such variety. Like this small delicate seed: Verses this big, hard, pokey, painful to walk on seed: And then there are insects. We found these guys munching on Helen’s yarn balls: I asked this guy if he was practicing to be a…
Pretty Lights Guesses as to what this is? A really bad hint: it is totally unrelated to these sparkling Hanuka candles. Our record breaking 2+ month drought ended in a big way: I ran the gravity fed creek fountains through a couple of freezing nights: Resulting in some ice encased leaves and twigs: Doggy tested…
Lets try a mystery photo: No mystery in this photo. We celebrated xmas a few days early and picked up a new car last week! It is a 2016 KIA Soul. Pretty well decked out with a big control panel, sunroof, and leather, but less expensive than you might expect with a year end discount…
We had a delightful Thanksgiving. Not surprisingly, 1.5 year old Max was the star of the holiday: He is such a happy boy: Nick and Chloe got this parenting thing figured out: I’m still figuring out the grand-parenting thing. Not sure in involves playing with knives: Or sharp pointy…
Posthistoric Ant Remember those prehistoric mosquitoes that were preserved in tree sap in Jurassic Park? I was inspired to preserve a present day ant so that people (or maybe aliens) will have something to play with in a few million years: I have good supply of tree sap, a veritable mini-river of the stuff: It…