Just once, part 5
Al Denelsbeck
The age of this photo is not just displayed by the condition of the negative (which has even been cleaned up a bit from the original,) but by the perch…
January 2024
Der Januar ist für mich tot
Take everything you can from January, because after today, it’s kaput. We have reached the end of the warranty period and so tomorrow it stops working. And that heralds the…
Totally free
Yep, once again, today is Free Thinkers Day, when you can go into your favorite home furnishings store and get a little statue of a naked constipated man at no…
Needs a little work
With the weather being surprisingly warm and clear and a not-full moon shining down, I elected to traipse over to the neighborhood pond and try my luck spotting the beaver(s).…
Just visiting
Late this morning I got alerted by a friend who lives on the neighborhood pond that there was a new visitor hanging out, and I wasted no time in getting…
Just once, part 4
I find it hard to believe this myself, but not only have I featured a skunk only once here on the blog, I think I have just one other set…
Be quiet out there
Going out onto the back porch the other night, I heard a significant racket coming from either just outside the back fence, or just inside it. While I always have…
The debt we all owe
One of the things that we get to do here is recognize the unsung heroes of our world, the ones who by all rights should have a holiday of their…
Just once, part 3
There are probably going to be a lot of arthropod images showing up in this topic, because there is a much wider variety of species than anything else, and I…
What are you doing out?
Was out in the yard yesterday, trying to oxidize some old deck boards, and as things were smoldering I wandered around a little bit. On the wall right near the…