Uvularia

Sharon tagged me for the Six Unimportant Things That Make You Happy meme. Sometimes I worry that all I think about are the dumb little thi...

My baby brother got tenure ! Everyone send him an online high five! Can you tell, I'm so proud?

After taking pictures of flowers I was struck with the crazy notion that I could bring other thing outside to take pictures. Wacky. T...

Yeah, I don't get far. Dame's Rocket I am surprised at how much I like this picture. It is terrible in the small version, but lots ...

Why, mommy, why are you torturing me? It's tick season and Lizzy, poor thing, is a magnet. Especially those cute ears and she does not ...

I hoped that Mabel would help with pictures, but not so much in this case (but at least I managed to crop out the litter box before posting)...

It's been awhile. Pretty Mushroom Spent daffodils can be pretty, too.

I used a Singer 151G dress form and am working on padding and stuffing so she will be fairly similar to me. She's still a little lumpy...

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. Yeah, yeah, it's blue. What of it?

Just kidding. I am on break from a conference where I am really getting my nerd on (remind to tell you about spatial data and the problems i...

I am in the middle of hormone hell: run down, crampy, irritable in the extreme. I'd take a couple of days off of work, but it is a ver...

Nikki Giovanni. My mom gave us Spin a Soft Black Song when it came out and it was one of my favorite books growing up (if you can find a f...

On Saturday we went to our friends' Craig and Chrissy's for a party. They have a farm with many animals (including, for your spinni...

Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman Should five per cen...

Leonard Cohen. With a few exceptions, I tend to think of Cohen as a poet who happens to set his writing to music (I can't imagine that ...

Len got more chicks on Tuesday. The little black one is especially adorable -- her breed is Black Sex Link (I should get some interesting k...

Valerie's recent post reminds me that it is National Poetry Month . My intention is to commemorate the month by posting poems by some...

It's that time again, time to take a little stroll through the iPod and see if anything embarrassing comes up. I added 5 songs to the u...

I'm moving right along on these. Unfortunately, I am not hating every minute. Block A Block B Block C Block D