What it says on the tin, sort of. A link sent by a friend, showing the astonishing size of trees once logged in the Pacific Northwest -- so large that small houses could be made from their hollowed-out trunks ( Read more... )

But boy, it's going to take me a while to catch up, looking at the amount of posting that went on while I was gone. (ETA: "skip=300", yeesh!) Also, I have lots of postcards to send out, yay! :D In the meantime, have a couple blurry pics of a silver-morph San Juan Island fox who happened to be outside my dorm at 7am one morning. Lovely critter; ( Read more... )

This one has a lovely close-up photo, here.

The makers say ". . . [T]hey never broke a single strand, yet the tapestry is as soft as cashmere."

I would love to run my hand over that, even once . . .

Thanks to annaberry over on handspinning for the link (arachnophobes might want to give it a miss, though):

"Gossamer silk, from spiders spun."

I think I'm in love . . . <3 Just in time for Halloween, too!

Found this waiting for me when I got to the door of my building at work today:


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It may not have as much cachet as, say, Bigfoot, but this search is far more likely to yield a real critter in the end.  Interesting to see it making national headlines now on Yahoo:

"Searchers shovel Northwest dirt seeking giant worm."

I've certainly never seen one of the critters, but then, I've never dug a 15-foot-deep hole, either . . .

I haven't posted a good critters-on-the-loose news article in a while.  This seemed like a good time to correct that.

"Marmot Causes Restaurant Ruckus in Prosser"

And it isn't even 10pm here yet.   It's likely to get colder still.

That does it.  I am never tempting fate by posting a picture of %^&#*%^%&#*@(@&%^%&$(#_)#@*$Y$^&!! snowdrops to my blog again.  EVER!!  >:(

Anyway, moving along . . .

I'm at work for a bit today, though I should have some time off coming up this weekend (yay!), and since it *is* Christmas, I'm indulging in a little net-dinking while I wait for stuff to run.

I missed this, earlier, but given that I started out in botany, I think it's pretty neat:

"World's First Blue Roses After 20 Years of Research"

Also, this next ( Read more... )

Now that Fry-kitty is old enough to go outside, his exceptionally soft, fine fur means that he's acquired a new hobby: vacuuming up every freaking goosegrass burr from our yard.  Much as I try to keep the stuff under control, after a wet spring like this last one, it's a losing battle.  Tippy and our late Gandalf never have/had much trouble with ( Read more... )