Lets say your world has a broken longitude or a melted ice cap. Now you can get a replacement part at the “JCB World Parts Centre” As you can tell from the French spelling the center (ce...Read More
My Brother Jim shot this cell phone picture of a mysterious stone construction somewhere on the Maine coast: Why ask Why? Other Stone piles (OOMS) More piles...Read More
Along with the historic wedding photos Kathy and Brian had another good idea at their wedding. Instead of a guest book they had the guests send them postcards. They supplied a big stack of histori...Read More
I saw this old shoe repair store in East LA last week andd took a picture with my IPhone Another member of the International Association of Simons (IAS) Okay. Perhaps a former member....Read More
If you look closely at this flowering cactus: You can see a lizard on the top of it. We suspect that it is eating the bugs that come to eat the nectar and accidentally pollinate the cactus flowers. ...Read More
Our friend Barbara D. has a topiary pig. It is quite healthy now and so I took the picture above. Topiary was more popular when labor was cheaper relative to goods. Now it is going out of fashion ...Read More
In our family we sometime go of on laughing tangents about odd things. Sometimes the tangents last for years: Blue Fuff Blue Fuff is an example of a family joke. Lillian was trying to say blue stu...Read More
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” -Robert Frost Thanks to Paul D. for this quote...Read More
In the east this is called a Redheaded Woodpecker. But out here in the west we call it the Acorn Woodpecker: Acorn woodpecker (taken from my office window) I can’t even imagine how it got the ...Read More