My neighbor Ruth was visited in May by a huge and beautiful moth who left her with a few hundred eggs. Which hatched. Ruth shared the babies around town (I believe she is already working on her husbands' next campaign - he is our City Councilperson Bill Henry who I support hugely) and we got 6 tiny babies and have been feeding them maple leaves. ( Read more... )

In going over my photo stuff I pulled out my old UZ1 which was abandoned in 2004 when I got my last one. It ate AA batteries and I was sick of carrying it to find dead batteries when I wanted to shoot. However it was a discontinued camera when I bought it on eBay - and still is a classic. The Oly c2100 UZ1 - a 10x zoom 2.1MP camera w/ incredible IQ ( Read more... )