Answer to mystery butterfly what likes roosting in the fig trees and feeding on damaged fruits: It’s a Question Mark!
You can imagine how this warms my rhetorical heart…
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That’s no butterfly — that’s punctuation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged butterflies eat figs, figs, insects, learn something new everyday, question mark butterflies, wildlife on 9 October, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What it is I’m waiting for
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, drunken butterflies, figs, home life, these words do not qualify as poetry and I know this, waiting on 7 October, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here already are the cats,
And the basil,
And the figs,
And the evening darkness interrupted by a waning Moon.
Dinner is over
Dinner is ‘NOT YET’
Leftovers soon to be pounced upon
We wait for something like a bee
Buzzing down side streets
Veering slightly askew
To land in the driveway.
Sic Transit Saturn
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged automotive conspiracy theories, death of saturn?, GM, I still love my Ion, penske, this is not how it was supposed to go on 30 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just heard via the NY Times that Robert Penske has been unable to find a new supplier for Saturn, and therefore broke of negotiations with GM.
Translation? The Saturn experiment, the attempt to do something ‘different’ with American automobiles, is probably over. GM will not continue production after 2009, and the doors will shut on Saturn [...]
Methinks there is another mouse…
Posted in Uncategorized on 6 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And it is behind the rt-hand bookcase in my office. Three fluffy cats, all jostling to get a better angle to sniff the baseboard near this bookshelf, in response to some suspicious squeaking noises…..
Things needing done, late July edition
Posted in Musing about Teaching, My brain, Uncategorized, tagged civic stained glass, here comes the rain again, managers vs makers, schedules, skylights, snails, things to be done, timing is everything on 27 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One course is almost finalized, the second – I hope – will take less time! Then we have buying a new cat litter box, more litter, some new experiments in wet food for Herr Malkin, and …
Maybe lunch and coffee first.
Data analysis, talking with the graduate office, checking in with the biotech people, wondering when [...]
New goldfinch behavior
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged goldfinch, lavender on 23 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had never seen a goldfinch eat the seeds out of a sprig of lavender before.
Ready, steady, go
Posted in Uncategorized on 10 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People who need people
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s difficult to explain to some of my students the importance of having trustworthy people to disagree with in your life. They struggle with literature review assignments because they prefer to have everything “fit together” rather than consider conflicting data, or they decide instead that one bit of conflicting data should outweigh all the other [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged February blues, May flowers, peony petals, valentine heart on 14 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Belated, but heartfelt. These peony petals were not, of course, around at Valentine time, but don’t we all want a taste of May at this point in the year?
Even better — my beloved is home, and we had mead, cheese, breads, and fig jam for dinner, along with some little shrimp dumplings and coconut cake.
Ah, [...]
Music for the ride
Posted in Uncategorized on 10 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got back from the store just now; got some ordinary milk [as opposed to the "Happy Cow" milk we just finished] and a few other items. Much more interesting was the music on the local college station: “The Bones of You”, by a group called Elbow. The repeated lyric “And I’m five years ago/And three [...]
