So I was sitting at the computer last night - around 2am or so - and heard a loud, rattling thump. My computer sits facing the dining room over a small room divider. There's a door from the dining room onto a small, screened in back porch - and a screen door to the back yard. The noise seemed to have come from outside the porch ( Read more... )

The cave, I find, is always more interesting in the spring. Mostly, with more run-off from melting snow and ice on the mountains and heavier, more persistent rains, the cave is a lot wetter - the dripstone is dripping, the flowstone is flowing, the stream bed is streaming, the rimstone dams are damming, and the sound of dripping, trickling water is ( Read more... )

We decided to take the scenic route to the nearest Chinese take-away after work on Sunday. It was kinda grey and drizzly, but we brought the camera along anyway. From the bitter countryside of Pennsylvania:


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Since it fucking well snowed yesterday, I thought it might be heartening (or maybe just depressing) to finally post some of my "nature photos" from last spring. So, in memory of younger, happier times - seven months ago - a number of pics I took to record some of the new environs...


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Three new species of lemur have been identified by BioMed Central. Okay, it's not like more lemurs have been discovered (what had been thought to be varieties of the same species have now been determined to be genetically different enough to rate their own species classification), but it's a reasonable excuse to post some pictures of them.


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So, one night in Savannah down. We checked in to our little suite in the Garden Hotel then headed out to meet Jaime and Mike (and Mike's adorable brother, Mark, and his very sweet girlfriend, Shelly) for a meal at The Lady and Sons, Paula Deen's restaurant. Unfortunately, Mark wasn't feeling very well (dehydration from a day on on Tybee Island, it ( Read more... )