Monthly Archives: October 2006

Went out birdwatching at Lake Crabtree before my biofeedback appointment. (Having an elderly woman tell you that your pelvic floor muscle response is “beautiful” is a trifle surreal. However, like everything else, you gotta laugh.) Nothing new on the bird front, but a pleasant way to kill part of the morning. Saw a magnificent osprey […]

ID’d a shrub in the flower bed with the help of urbpan’s 365-species project. (Yay!) It’s a burning bush. (Noooo!) Burning bush is a nasty invasive that’s often used as an ornamental, but which spreads by seeds and fills woodlands and is banned in a couple of states, but of course they still sell it […]

What exactly is happening in this painting may hinge largely on whether or not you think I’m a big enough freak to illustrate a peculiar fairy-tale meeting occurring in someone’s innards. …and I’m pretty sure I already know the answer to that. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41017221/ It’s really not supposed to be a sperm, I swear.

It’s been raining for two days here. This is good, actually, because there was a fairly major explosion at a chemical processing plant yesterday, which involved a roving cloud of chlorine slinking through the suburbs, waving chartreuse tentacles, and the obligatory raging fires and whatnot. They evacuated most of the town of Apex. (We’re fine […]