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Guaranteed overheard: “It’s too hot to lay eggs, Andy!”
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mystery visitor
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“If you did not drop it, do not pick it up!”
Purple Martin sanctuary, Virginia. Purple martins are swallows that are found only in the Americas. They depend on human-made houses to survive. Native Americans hung up gourds for them before Europeans arrived.
Where Have I Been
inspired by alexink , Manton, Andreas, Maique
Sadly, only 3 countries:
- Canada
- Germany
- Greece
Not counting airport stops. For it to count, I have to have set foot in the country, outside of one of its airports.
My hope is someday to be able to travel much more outside the U.S.
42 U.S. States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
1 U.S. District
- of Columbia
I would love to see the sandhill crane migration in Nebraska someday. I saw them in Alaska quite a bit.
Occupants continuing to occupy the box I didn’t get around to recycling quickly enough, last November. Happy Caturday. 🐈
📷micro.blog March photo challenge
analog request for Mom to put in an online order for sea monkeys, 2004
Birds of a feather, flocking together, with the neighbor’s wandering turkey hen. 2017.
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” - Mark Twain, who was underwhelmed by its members.
We find what we are looking for:
“There aren’t very many toys in the prehistoric archaelogical record. For a long time, archaelogists thought that was because prehistoric kids were somehow fundamentally different from modern kids. But now some scholars think that the toys are missing from the record simply because early archaeologists didn’t recognize them. Whenever they saw objects that could easily be used for children’s play, they categorized them as items used for ritual instead.”
”…and in western East Virginia today, a shocking take-down of Santa Claus. A feline washing her face near the scene darted under the coffee table when approached.”
I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for this….
Hippies Use Side Door
Guardian of the Bamboo Forest, issuing a warning, or perhaps making a prophecy. Can’t be sure.
Brood X periodic cicada hanging out on my back patio after 17 years underground. I think they are both cool, and creepy. And they fly quite slowly: no wonder the birds love them!
My mental DJ this morning has been playing “What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor,” which is a song my grandmother taught me. Only now has it occurred to me that this is a weird song to teach little children to sing…
Today at Zoom coffee hour, a local historian mentioned that people often hid things in grandfather clocks and mantel clocks. One time, she found a bone fragment: a souvenir from someone’s leg surgery.
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