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Michael, According to the Acton web page, it’s clear right now. Tomorrow is supposed to be mostly cloudy, with clearing on Thursday. With luck you might be able to watch the lunar eclipse Wednesday night. Out here in the west, it will be visible at dusk, but in the eastern US, you’ll see it around […]

Adam’s been pounding on me about posting pictures of fruit. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel I guess he considers macros of limes the last refuge of a blogmeister gone barren. I tend to agree. To get him off my back, I’m posting old photos of which I know he can never […]

Michael, In case you have some time to be spared between shots of colorful vegetables, take a look at some of these strange photos of odd earthly objects seen from space. For your next backyard project, maybe you and Matt can construct something unusual that can be seen from space, and that will find its […]

Michael, In case you have some time to be spared between shots of colorful vegetables, take a look at some of these strange photos of odd earthly objects seen from space. For your next backyard project, maybe you and Matt can construct something unusual that can be seen from space, and that will find its […]

Those tulips BirdBrain gave us finally lost their petals, but has that stopped me from taking more pictures? Oh, hell no.

  Michael, This afternoon Beth and I went for a walk around Boulder’s Walden Ponds (yes I know Massachusetts has that name trademarked. Sorry.), and we were studying the Canada Geese that thrive there. At first glance, one of the geese seemed to have a ribbon around its neck.  But no, it appeared to be […]

If Diane didn’t change our sheets we’d never have clean ones. It’s not that I don’t like the feel of freshly laundered linen, or that I enjoy sleeping on miscellaneous specks of dried blood, it’s just not something I “see.” I see peeling paint on my house, and I can sense when the oil needs […]

I’m talking on the phone to Dan and I hear what sounds like a train coming though the middle of the house. I said, “Hey, Diane, there’s a train in our house.” “Yeah, that’s what they said would happen.” “Who said what would happen?” “The weather guy (Now that’s she watching TV she’s become this […]