A cartoon by New Yorker cartoonist Elizabeth (M.E.) McNair showing a butterfly lying on a psychiatrist's couch despondently asking, "I finally became a butterfly, and everyone's already asking what's next," Story of my life...
Approaching septuagenarianism, aka the new "age of majority". Who'd a thunk it?
He's no Harrison Ford, that's for sure...
Reading about the Oscars and I keep reading "One Beetle After Another" and think, yeah, that would've been better.
I'm not sure that I fully understand the point of "Operation Epstein Führer". Oh, wait...
This, That and The Other...
A green and red Amaryllis flower (Hippeastrum papilio) blooming against a backdrop of snow seen through a window with a second bud spike from another plant.
One of my Papilio Amaryllises has begun blooming (with another plant's bud-in-waiting). This is the first bloom for this particular bulb.
Take Five (Dave Brubeck).
I recognize ALL of these artifacts (and still have a few of them!). Guess that makes me an "ancient"!
But it's such a good illustration of the "rise to the level of their incompetence" priniciple...
Finally got back in to GEM after 15-20 minutes of trying...sounds like he did well and we hope it's enough. We'll get to see it on replay, I guess.
Some of us wish we could've seen it, Devin, BUT the CBC feed crashed midway through his program and wouldn't let us back in. Logged us out and "too many requests" trying to get back in...I suspect everyone in the country got logged out at once.
So Quiet (Nik Kershaw)
Fender did the same thing to Tacoma, way back when, burying one of the few American companies building quality guitars...
Anyone who took music class, back in "the day," knows what this is...
The Swedish chef says "Vert der Ferk?"
Hope my siesta alarm didn't wake EVERYBODY!!!
Floor crossing shouldn't be allowed. If you want to quit the party that you were elected with, then become an independent. Crossing the floor to another party is changing the results of the election after the fact.
Michael Hedges...
And that's why there's been a cabinet "shuffle."
/2 Beach Provincial Park and she said she’s willing to consider development proposals in other protected areas.
A medium-sized, gray-brown bird with a white belly and short, sharp beak, peering over the edge of a garden bed at the grassy, leaf-covered ground.
A medium-sized, gray-brown bird with a spotted breast gradually fading to a white belly stares at the photographer (me!) from the edge of a raised garden bed.
Had a new visitor to the yard today, travelling with a pair of robins. From the short-ish mostly black bill I suspect this is an immature Bicknell's thrush (but it could be a Grey-cheeked thrush). Thoughts?
I'm surprised no-one has posted:
"There must be some kinda way outta here..."
The Kings from The Kings Are Here: "This Beat Goes On / Switchin' to Glide" (1980, Toronto)
And there are currently "Long Lake" fires in 4 states as well as Ontario...
Hi Suzanne. Your butterflies are actually a cabbage white (top left), a wood nymph (top right) and a black swallowtail (bottom left). Can't help you with the 'hopper, sorry!
A male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with antlers in velvet faces me as he stands over some ferns and wildflowers in our backyard "wild border." His antlers have sharp 5 up-pointing points on either side but, as he gazes off at something making noise on the street, you can see that his antlers are "lop-sided" with two extra down pointing growths on his left antler. This is not uncommon and, thankfully, makes him instantly recognizable...
Had a dinner guest last night: this handsome somewhat lopsided antlers-in-velvet white-tailed buck. He's a regular visitor to our yard. Last night we literally had dinner together as we ate on the back porch and watched him eat his own dinner. He politely posed for photos...
Boycotting American goods and services should be government policy by now. And they should start with fighter jets...
It's another Great Spanged Fritillary (Speyeria cybele), Suzanne...
Google Image search IDs it as gray birch (Betula populifolia).
'Tis a Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele).
Me as that one weird kid...