The rest of the animal fence can be seen here.
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The rest of the animal fence can be seen here.
I won’t be back into town until next Wednesday, but I think we’ll have to make time to hit Kroll’s Diner again. I need a malt.
Some of Gracie’s crew.
I am not, however, in the kindest of moods towards them, Gracie in particular:
Because I don’t feel like working today. Screwing about with this photo.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition allows researchers and doctoral students to share their work in pictures, with winners from categories ranging from eureka to weird and wonderful. Award winning images of science in action. Thanks to Opus for the heads up.
A rotating jet of a viscoelastic liquid, which won first place in the weird and wonderful category
Photograph: Professor Omar Matar/EPSRC/PA
The Grackles are back. I look forward to this every year, I’m very fond of grackles. They are astonishingly beautiful birds, with a metallic rainbow hidden in that black. They can look wonderfully fierce and raptorish, but they are endearingly clumsy, and there’s that fabulous puff ‘n’ whistle business. Grackles are always shy at first, as they tend to be high on the enemy list here in farm country. The last couple of years, there’s been an increase in leucism in grackles. There’s one leucistic grackle in particular, I call Pye, and I hope he is back again this year. (The last shot is Pye, from last year). Click for full size.
It’s gray, freezing cold, and snowing outside. Not what I want.
A Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber), from Abear. Thanks!
The first day of Spring is one thing, and the first Spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. – Henry Van Dyke
There’s a quotation group on Moblog, and it’s a lot of fun. You choose a quotation, then illustrate it photographically. Some quotations can be a real challenge. I’d like to do that here, but with a bit of a twist. Leave quotations you’d like to see illustrated here, and anyone can choose one, and illustrate it any way you like, with a photo, drawing, or other art form, then send it to [email protected]. Here’s an old one I did for the Moblog group, way back when, titled Perhaps:
“Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.” – William Inge