Deer stalking

At Wildwood State Park in Wading River

Some of my favorite carols

In the Bleak Midwinter  Listen  Listen

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming  Listen

Once in Royal David's City  Listen

Bethlehem Down  Listen

Wexford Carol  Listen

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear  Listen

I saw Three Ships  Listen

Oh Come, All Ye Faithful  Listen

Oh Magnum Mysterium (Lauridsen)  Listen

Hanya in the library

Number 42

By the time you read this I will have swallowed capsule #42 of my Doxycycline regimen for Lyme Disease. The End!!
Just thought you would like to know.
(Didn't The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reveal the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything to be the number 42? or am I remembering wrong?)

"Honor Your Campus Library"

An article that highlights the campus library and

librarians. (Nice to be appreciated.)

Not camera shy

This may be the place

This may be the place where that blasted deer tick lived, the one that bit me and gave me the Lyme Disease I have just been diagnosed with. October 8th was a lovely day and I enjoyed a walk in Wertheim Wildlife Preserve on the South Shore. It seems likely that was the date and scene of the crime. Thanks a heap, Ms. Tick, for the Borella burgdordferi!

How did it go, now?

Season of mist and mellow ... ornamental grass?

Who spilled the burgundy?

Why should there be differences in coloring in the same oak species in the same location?

Poor thing

I wonder if it hurts

She knows that

I am not a big, bad wolf,

I am not a big, bad wolf,

I am not a big, bad wolf

Last June

Wooden shoe

Everything at the beach is a pic waiting to be taken.

Cones

Pitch pine cones at Wertheim Wildlife Refuge

October clouds

Such interesting clouds last Sunday

Oops, missed the big moment

My car is now officially middle-aged.

My spring chicken

is approaching a milestone (to mix metaphors)

Coleus ready to plant

Thirteen days in a glass of water

 and this cutting is ready to pot up.

 Thanks, T!

Google Noir

A student showed me this the other day:
Black Google
"bpled has been made black to reduce the energy of your computer screen by making a black background. It will consume less energy than a white screen. In addition it's better for your eyes."
(By the way, BPLED doesn't mean a thing ... although, think of all that mental energy you could waste puzzling out a meaning for it!)
It is also called Blackle.
Blackle

I like fish, but ...

I don't want to get into them to this extent!

Dusky grouper

Enduring color

My floral favorite this summer is a mixture of portulacas, also called moss rose. Each  blossom lasts only a day or two and on a cloudy day the buds won't open at all. The more you nip them back the more flower buds appear. Great for small gardens like mine.

In the driver's seat

In a dog's mind

Even a non-dog person would get a chuckle out of Julie's recent post,
http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com/2011/09/chet-baker-captain-and-schlemiel.html
I just love this blog. She writes so well and is so alive to nature in all its forms, and what a sense of humor she has. (Takes good pictures, too)

Boston -- Batch #4

Magnificent Trinity Church on Copley Square was dedicated in 1877 and is renowned for its richly colored interior. It has been deemed one of the "Ten Most Significant Buildings in the United States" by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). I was awestruck by the stained glass windows. Even in low light the colors and scenes are so impressive. You can see more pictures of Trinity Church in the Wikipedia article,

Trinity Church, Boston

So much for that bright idea

Thought I'd put away some water in convenient-size bottles. Why not freeze it? This is why. It bursts.

I felt the earthquake!

This afternoon about 1:55, after a nice walk on a pine-needle trail in the woods, I was sitting under a tree beside the track at Shoreham High School, enjoying apple juice, chocolate chip cookies, and Chasing Aphrodite, the new tell-all book about the Getty Museum. Suddenly the ground under my nether parts began to go back and forth. Weird! What is going on? After the shaking had gone on for ten or twenty seconds I felt very uneasy and got up. Am I having a stroke? The few people running on the track showed no awareness of anything wrong. Was it a giant groundhog tunnel being excavated? (There are many resident groundhogs here.) A sprinkler system rumbling into life? Has New York City been bombed? What the h___?
I went into the North Shore Library, which is only steps away, sat down at a computer, but before I could get to a news site I heard someone say "we had an earthquake". Whew! What a sense of relief. Only an earthquake. It wasn't me, then. Only an earthquake after all! (5.8 and centered in Virginia and I feel for those in tall buildings).

Boston -- Batch #3

 You can get around this way, too.

 In Copley Square

there is a hare

 and a tortoise too

 and you remember who won that race!

The Boston Marathon finish line is nearby.

 Also in Copley Square: a farmer's market.

These are heirloom tomatoes.

The lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel is a museum in itself. Quite magnificent. Where we stayed was a little smaller.

 Lion, George, and moi.

Cobblestone street in front of Paul Revere's house.