Last night Connie and I went to the premiere of a special exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science called “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age.” It’s a very nice exhibit with lots of good stuff but I was somewhat disappointed at how the Museum limited what you could photograph. Among the …
Author: Reid Farmer
Bugs
I first noticed this bug graffiti on a retaining wall last October. It’s on the east side of South Parker Road at about the Arapahoe County line. I don’t drive that stretch very often so I don’t know when it would have gone in, but I doubt if it was earlier than last summer. They …
Hot Links
We have comets on the way: Pan-STAARS this month and Ison in November. Pan-STAARS is already visible in the Southern Hemisphere as you can see in this pic taken recently in Australia. It should be visible in parts of the Northern Hemisphere this week. There are articles here and here on the comets. I am …
A Glorious First of March
We had quite a sunset here on Friday. We get so many good ones I sometimes feel spoiled.
Woodpecker at Work
Outside our kitchen window last Friday.
Denver Art Museum – O’Keeffe and More
On Saturday, Connie and I went to the Denver Art Museum to take a look at a special exhibit on “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico.” A centerpiece in the exhibit was a collection of drawings and paintings of katchina dolls O’Keeffe had done in her early visits to New Mexico that have previously been little …
Long Sentences
I finally got a copy of Paul Hendrickson’s Hemingway’s Boat. I was so long getting to it, I was starting to feel like a kid dodging homework. A copy jumped off the shelf and into my hands when I was walking through the Tattered Cover the other day. Parts of it I am enjoying, though …
HMS Surprise
After posting a quote from one of Patrick O”Brian’s novels earlier this week, I remembered that I had some more Aubrey-Maturin related material to share. About 15 months ago I posted some nighttime pictures I had taken on the San Diego waterfront including this one of a sailing ship whose name I did not know. …
Happy Birthday Bella
It seems hard for us to believe, but our granddaughter Isabella Wilson had her third birthday a few days back. Connie and I were able to make a quick trip to California to participate in the festivities. As you can see in this picture, Bella is in a princess phase right now and firmly believes …
Historic Preservation Board
I am proud to announce that the Douglas County Commissioners have appointed me to a three year term on the County Historic Preservation Board. It’s a volunteer position and the Board is an advisory body that gives advice and makes recommendations to the county’s decision-making groups. Here’s the Board’s mission statement: The Board conducts research …