September, 2009

fish hatchery

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

It rained again Saturday in my neck of the woods – another cool, wet, dreary day. So I shut myself inside and, in between household chores, curled up on the couch in front of the TV for some good (and bad) college football. But Sunday – oh Sunday! – the sun broke through the clouds [...]

christoph niemann

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Check out the wry porfolio of illustrator Christoph Niemann here.
(Don’t miss this series…)
Via Information Is Beautiful

the circle of life

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

This is what happens on your back porch when torrential rainfall keeps you inside for a week – some as-yet unidentified fuzzy brown spider builds a 5 sq. ft. web in front of your sliding glass door.

black thumb

Monday, September 21st, 2009

The heat-ravaged zucchini held out for the better part of the summer, their sallow leaves wilted by the sun, hanging limp and pitiful in the stagnant, triple-digit heat of July. By that point, a faithful watering could only refresh them, never quite restore the verdure they had lost sometime in June. As for the tomatoes… [...]