Vantastic
During my "hippie carpenter" days I drove a shingled Ford Econoline van with an impeach Nixon bumper sticker. Then...
Nanny in Pasadena
On Tuesday July 19th the Pasadena Environmental Advisory Commission had a public hearing on a proposal to ban the use...
Five Pearls of Wisdom
1. Money cannot buy happiness but...somehow, its more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle. 2....
Simon Says Postcards 7/21/2011
Red Telephone Boxes are now rare and expensive. What is ubiquitous in our lives today that will be rare...
Maxim July 21, 2011
"The postcard is a curious form. It is the epitome of what linguists call phatic communication: a message with no...
Back at the Lilies
Three beautiful flowering lilies this week. I hope you are enjoying the pond transition as much as I...
Tadpoles in a Jar
The frog eggs have definitely hatched so I caught a Ball Jar full of them and took a picture. As you can see they...
Tadpoles
Those frog eggs that I showed in last weeks pond post are now tadpoles. Lillian discovered them over the weekend and...
Simon Says Postcards
Postcards were an important means of communicating in the 19th and 20th centuries. But now in the 21st century as...
