Hard to believe it was 70 degrees on Monday afternoon.
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All Hallows Eve
The layout of our little community of Riverbend lends itself to an occasional block party. The streets and single-family homes are aligned in two lobes, like lungs to the left and right of a main bronchial boulevard that runs north and south along the spine of the subdivision. This arrangement limits traffic to a shallow, …
Obligatory Grandkid Photo
That’s Bella on the left in her R2D2 costume last night. The little devil on the right is her pal Stella.
Hot Links
The NY Times tells us about Animal Cannibals. Well they did get a catchy title: “It’s a Toad Eat Toad World.” And you complained about my laughing stalk. Charles Mann tells us How the Potato Changed the World, an extract from his estimable book 1493. Great potato picture, huh? Get the book. A paleoanthropologist from …
Denver Art Museum – Maynard Dixon
I posted a couple of weeks ago about a recent visit to the Denver Art Museum. The new director there, who shook up the Native American exhibits, is apparently a Maynard Dixon expert. I’ve posted before how much I enjoy Maynard Dixon’s work so it was nice to see that the new director has had …
A380
Brace yourselves for one of my aircraft geek posts. The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world, capable of carrying up to 850 passengers. The big two-decker has been operational for about four years but as it services a limited number of US airports (LAX, San Francisco, JFK, Dulles, and Miami) most …
And Still More Shelves
It occurred to me after Steve posted his bookshelf pictures that we had done something similar about four years ago. I thought of a slightly different angle – I’ll post pictures of some of our cookbooks (and other food-related books) that we keep in shelves in the back hall near the kitchen. You can see …
Kino
The hotel where I’m staying in Tucson is across the street from the Arizona History Museum where I saw this statue of Father Eusebio Kino, SJ. Father Kino (1645 – 1711) was an early explorer and missionizer in what is now Baja California and Arizona. For some reason I was particularly struck by the astrolabe …
Flies (follow up)
My “trolling for flies” post a few weeks back has resulted in an embarrassment of riches, and my adoration for the sharing nature of this human community. We’re humbled by the response, and plan to pass on the effort in random acts of fly-sharing along various rivers in the future. Of course I wrote the …
Windshield Family
One of the recent fads that I find annoying is what I call “windshield families” – you know, those semi-stick figure decals that show all of the parents, kids and pets on the back window of their car. I started seeing these in California a few years ago and now they are all over the …