

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
A place for my photos and thoughts and stuff.


It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Great blue heron, from a distance…

Little fence lizard by a big fence…

Looking toward the Brightwater Trail under a blue fall sky…


For Halloween…

…in an over-priced boutique.

Can it?

Towers…

A tree…

And some troublemakers.

I see this guy every time I drive to the post office. It sits atop a patio shade structure, overlooking a rather lushly landscaped backyard. They have obviously had problems with birds nesting in its nose and mouth, and they’ve put up barriers, which just seems unfair, really. Birds are the living descendants of the dinosaurs, after all.
Anyway, they dress it up for holidays, which is awesome. What I would have given to have something like this growing up.

“Get. Us. Out. Of. Here.”

So much reading to do, if you already know how to read Japanese.

Japanese product packaging design is one of the planet’s great joys.

What child has not fervently dreamed for their own pet lobster?

Couldn’t grow sunflowers this year for some reason. Had to go to the store to see them. Very disappointing year in the garden, overall.

You turn your back for a second and they’re in your spot.