Burningbird“When my dad wakes up today, the first thing he will notice is that he is dead. But he’ll take that in his stride, because my mom will be cooking bacon downstairs and getting the coffee ready and these divine smells will keep him from worrying too much about it.” Halley Suitt’s poignant and warm farewell to […]
I was going to Point Reyes for a walk today but ended up at Golden Gate and Crissy Field instead. I picked up a new photo, nothing special but it adds a bit of color.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. According to Dictionary.com, triangulation is: The location of an unknown point, as in navigation, by the formation of a triangle having the unknown point and two known points as the vertices. When I studied history in college I had a college professor tell me that the only way to discover […]
Ha! Shannon and I have a co-fearer of spiders. Kath details her terror at an encounter with a monster spider in Florida. My favorite generator of terror? The Tegenaria gigantea. Don’t let its harmless common name of House Spider fool you — this arachnid can reach sizes of 18mm for the male. And if you live in the […]
Before I started messing around with my site and doing things such as alphabetizing my blogroll, I had the Australians on the list separated into what I called the Australian Delegation — a separate list of weblogs owned and maintained by those we affectionately refer to as Aussies. In a surge of nostaligia, as well as an […]