Recent Posts Tagged With 'amusables'

• An Unmistakable Sign of Spring

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 17:27 in Photography, my home, amusables

  Earlier this week, I was working on some of my typical spring photographs – buds and blooms from throughout my garden – when I took a short break, went outside, and immediately felt like I was being watched. Well, I was being watched, by the neme...

• "Snail on the Run!"

  Posted on Monday April 14th, 2008 at 19:05 in amusables

  Have you ever spent two hours on a Saturday afternoon chasing a snail around your back yard? I thought not…. Well … I have. A few weekends ago I splurged on a new lens for my Sony A100 camera … … and as I was crawling arou...

• Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes [del.icio.us]

  Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2008 at 08:43 in amusables

  "Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in huma...

• Top 10 April Fools' Day joke Web sites [del.icio.us]

  Posted on Monday March 31st, 2008 at 11:55 in amusables

  "Perhaps it's that, in the midst of the crushing influx of information that many of us cope with daily, a well-constructed prank provides a welcome break. For a moment, we smile, even when the joke is a tried-and-true chestnut."...

• Roof Ornament

  Posted on Thursday February 7th, 2008 at 21:05 in amusables

  Here’s a little (!!) something you don’t expect to see perched on your roof when you get home from work: Closer: Why is there never a cat around when you need one?...

• Wishing You a Safe and Happy New Year!

  Posted on Friday December 28th, 2007 at 08:29 in wishes, amusables

  I know it’s been pretty quiet around here for the past few weeks, but I’m wrapping up my Exploring Place class today so regular blogging will resume shortly. In the meantime, I thought I’d share these three minutes of pure delight t...

• When hard-boiled eggs explode…

  Posted on Sunday July 8th, 2007 at 12:49 in amusables

  … it sounds an awful lot like a gun going off! Trust me! Don’t try this at home: Apparently this is what happens when you sit down to write a quick blog post after setting some eggs to boiling, the blog post takes longer than you thought...