Category: Humor

Spaceball

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Dirty filthy ice
250,000 kilometers per hour
Vacuum of space

I drove to a nearby clearing to get this. There were a couple of families there to witness the show. Nice people. I showed them mine, and they showed me theirs. Me with tripod, camera set to 5 second delay blah blah blah. Them, with their phones, long exposure magnificence and excellent results.
I’m a dinosaur. Luckily, it only happens every 80,000 years.

Fluent In Two-Hundred Languages

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No words are spoken
All paths are in song
Not sure what I’m saying
Don’t care if I’m wrong

I sing all day
Standards and others
But I don’t sing new
‘Cause I only know covers

The scientific identity of life is so far beyond my little gray cells. We a have a “tree” that has shaped up more like a bush, that has a eucalyptus scent but is not eucalyptus. Perhaps chokeberry or camphor, more investigation needed. Mockingbirds love these berries, which might not even be berries.

From Africa With Love

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Spring starts March 19th
Like it’s a thing
Say the African daisies

Cover Photo: Ramona looking eastward. This patch of non-indigenous daisies has become a source of colorful joy.

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In a nearby deep ravine flows runoff from several days of rain. Seasonal creeks may last a week after a good soaking. Multiple weeks will create flows up to a month.This year, we returned to typical scarcity for water.

All phone candids