Just because, part 11
Al Denelsbeck
This morning’s bloom, because…
September 2013
To thine own creepy self…
“So, Al,” you begin, (“you” meaning someone who reads this blog regularly, possibly an entirely fictitious character, and not necessarily you yourself, but thank you if it applies,) “are you…
Buried at the crossroads
I wish I could draw political-style cartoons, because then I’d open this with an illustration of an unkillable zombie, or maybe Jason from the Friday the 13th franchise, with the…
Odd memories, part 11
Okay, this one’s just stupid, but that’s its charm. Many years ago I worked at an extension of a humane society, a facility dedicated to dog training, wildlife rehab, and…
Spectres and splattered bugs
We had plans to do the whole downtown Savannah thing again this trip, and spent one day and one evening down there. The Girlfriend wanted to do a walking ghost…
Simons and Solenopsis
On Day Two of the Valiant Quest for Chillin’ (that sounds so much better than “vacation,” doesn’t it?) we hit the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, still the…
Sun and Spanish moss
And so, slowly, I return to posting, revealing in the process that the last three posts were scheduled ahead of time to appear when they did, since we just spent…
Not your typical view
This isn’t something that’s ever come up before here, but I’m a little bit of an aviation enthusiast, especially World War II. The air war in Europe and the Pacific…
Don’t take it personally
It’s funny; I first read the posts which prompted this over a week ago, and have been thinking about this ever since. To set the scene as briefly as I…
The stories go on
This is the follow-up to several different posts made earlier in the year – it gives an indication not just of what life in the arthropod world is like, but…