This is at the community garden down the street. It reminds me of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree.

This morning, on the neighbor’s roof. Great Blue Heron

After that hard rain storm this morning, my backyard has decided to flood. It floods a bit anyways, but this is far worse then usual. There is 6-8 inches of standing water through about 75% of the yard.

Yesterday, wandering around downtown, I decided to take some pictures of the Skate Park under the Burnside Bridge. It’s supposedly a world class skate park and one of the best around. I was primarily interested in the graffiti as the quality seems to be a couple of notches above the norm. After taking several pictures, [...]

As of Friday, April 9th, 2010 I shall be on the road to Langtry Texas for a family reunion of sorts. I’m not 100% sure of the family connection of most people attending will be, but I’m very much looking forward to the trip itself. I’ve been on two long trips like this before, once [...]

Currently available on Hulu.com is Galactica 1980. The premise is pretty simple, the “rag tag fleet” of the Original Series finally made it to Earth. But the Cylons have followed the humans to Earth. So the poor old Galactica is caught between Earth and the Cylon forces. Commander Adama is of course torn, on one [...]

I’m getting pretty good at spotting these people a mile away. Got a phone call from (503) 639-8735, didn’t recognize the number. Did a quick look up of the number on Google and found that they did this quite often. Less then ten minutes later, got another phone call from them which I decided to [...]

The English Language is a strange beast. First you have the fact that one word can have multiple meanings. Or one object can be defined by many words that have extremely different origins. But not to be outdone, three different words with separate meaning and spellings can be pronounced the same. Then the English language [...]