Faded and torn and worn, the time finally came to retire our Old Glory and replace her with a new one, pictured above. Funny though, I couldn’t bring myself to throw out the old one, purchased on September 12,2001 and proudly waved since. And though I believe you’re technically supposed to burn old flags rather …
I was greeted this pre-dawn with a tweet from my friend Walt, saddened by the death of the man well-known as the Silver Lake Walker, otherwise known to his patients as Dr. Marc Jacobs. In shock and abject sadness over the sudden loss of such a fixture of the neighborhood I then went about posting …
From a humble seed not even a third the size of my pinky nail planted at the end of May, our first lemon queen sunflower has finally thrown open its petals this morning (click for the bigger picture). Few things demonstrate the magnificence of life to me more than such an incredible and complex transformation. …
Call it coincidence, but it’s an interesting one. Like many dreams, I can’t quite remember when it exactly began, but an awareness about my lack of them has been in place for quite some time, and as someone who previously dreamed pretty regularly the prolonged dearth was a bit disturbing. Well, in a curious case …
It looks like the first of our backyard sunflowers (to survive being stealthily beheaded by marauding squirrels who’ve de-budded three of them — the damn varmints!) is juuuuuust about ready to open up. The bud’s been playing peek-a-boo this way for a couple days and I’m hopeful we’re but a day or so away from …
Recorded and sent directly to YouTube from my iPhone4. Sorry for the vertical letterboxing. I was trying to hold the device “properly” like a doof.
Yesterday at lunch I let Buster out of her hutch for a little backyard R&R (Roam & Recon), and apparently tortoises trigger some sort of allergic reaction in Ranger — located about the head and neck.