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. …
15 Minute Snowman
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…
Bugs
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…
Mouse in the House
Today’s mystery photo is brought to you by cholera: We had the last of our summer visitors, Ina and family from New York. The standard protocol for entertaining guests in Salt Lake City is to throw them into the Great Salt Lake: If you look closely (click to enlarge), you can see Helen way off…
Birds, Bees, and Alien cucumbers
Today’s mystery photo: To hopefully confuse you further, this is related: We had a nice visit with Noah who came for Helen’s Birthday. He also gave a nice piano concert to a local Russian group: Helen’s co-worker gave her cake with 50 no-blow-out candles. Irena helped and after much smoke they finally got them out…
Swimming with the balls
We had lots of fun last week, with visits from Zach, Tiffany, and Nick. After being here for 6 months, I finally got to go see the Great Salt Lake. At 2,000 square miles (4th largest terminal lake in the world), it was surprising hard to find. I knew where it was, but finding a…