News

News from the gas station trees:

We have autumn here after all!! For Christmas!

and

News from my hometown

It's probably best to stay away from there for a while,

and someone tell the Large Hadron Collider people that they may be too late with the black hole.

Adventures from a cell phone

In no particular order...

Burger King is burning down, burning down, burning down... (except there were no flames. Whatever.)

Never Say Never!Uh...Never.

Never.

Eat, or be eaten.

New mantra..."you'll do fine. You'll do fine. You'll do fine..."

Friend who can call geese, although they dared not linger.

Just Dance

Or draw.

I like these. A lot.

I'm glad my son found a spare umbrella in the car and wanted to play with it while we waited at violin lessons. I'm also glad I had my camera in the car.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

How Things Work

[There's pentagons in my bokeh! (because the aperture is formed by the diaphragm which is composed of [so I've learned] five overlapping leaves and for some crazy reason, when light passes through it, somehow [but how?? Something is missing here] pentagons are made in the highlights in the unfocused areas)]

Leaves. And Pentagons.

it's a little-known fact that I took two plant biology classes on my way to a degree in economics. I loved the first one, and took the second without the highly recommended prerequisites because I just couldn't get enough of plant biology. These little diagrams of the cross-sections of leaves make me smile almost as much as the leaves themselves. As the chlorophyll degrades, it becomes colorless, and then you can see all the yellows and oranges, which were there all along. The reds and purples are made separately and appear at certain times in the tree's development...