I think this mystery photo is too easy, but is scary pretty: And the hills around here are simply pretty pretty: And the birds above the hills are pretty pretty pretty: I’ve been playing a game with the birds that come to the feeders I placed next to our windows … how close can I…
A not so feral cat
Guess who this is: Fortunately it is not a 3d photo, or Irena would have been terrified: A slightly different view of the guy who owns those teeth, here finalizing the circuitry for the Hot Tub solar collector: I got the evacuated solar tubes mounted right above the hot tub: These plots show the various…
Fawns to Bucks
You remember those cute little deer fawns we had pouncing over our pool cover last spring? They grew up: This hawk has been watching them like a hawk: And this wood pecker: Was pecking on our rock siding. Must have been some rock insects in there: Which leads into things that weight about the same…
To kill a lionfish
We started this month with a wonderfully warm trip to St Thomas with Zach and Tiffany: We did tons of snorkeling. This was Tiffany’s first time, she did amazingly well: Zach found some not-so-deep sea not-so-treasury treasure: And we all found tons of fish. Pretty, flat bottom, triangular shaped smooth trunkfish: Spotted drumfish, which look…
Angry Bird
You might guess what this mystery photo is, but you won’t guess how it was made: The challenge with this photo is where was it taken: We had a quick but nice trip to Montana for xmas. Mom’s village was as pretty as ever: With hundreds of interesting characters, like these ice fishermen: We…
Spitting at jets
We took a trip to San Diego a couple of weekends ago, for Helen’s Epilepsy conference. Helen has an interesting, albeit morbid, hotel metric … jump-ability. Our hotel, an Embassy Suites, has a large 12 story interior courtyard, so scored pretty high on that metric! And it had exterior balconies as well. This is the…