Bee Gee
(click to triplify) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee . . . Emily Dickinson
Hatchlings!
Nine days ago, after thinking our doorway spider mom was on her last legs having successfully guarded and hatched the dozens of spiderlings from her first egg sac, she surprised and delighted me with a second ball o’ babies to be and since then I’ve been monitoring it pretty much every day in anticipation of …
Sproutz No Doubtz
Thirteen days after planting the sunflower seeds provided me as part of my participation in the Great Sunflower Project, I finally watered me some seedlings instead of bare soil! Woo-hoo!
Here’s Something One Doesn’t Encounter Every Night While Biking Through Elysian Park
While carrying my bike around a closed gate on Elysian Park Road during the beginning part of another awesome edition of last night’s RIDE-Arc ride, in the darkness I somehow managed to spy something scurrying along the ground out from under my feet and my first thought was I’d disrupted some poor lizard’s evening. Never …
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Morning Snap: Towering Sunflowerings
I’m regularly harping what one misses while behind the wheel of an automobile, but the same thing can happen from a bike saddle, too. I pass this building at the bottom of the hill on my street every day on my way to work and most of the time on my way home, and assuming …
I Spoke Too Soon
I lamented a couple weeks ago about the tiny doorframe spider whose days I figured were numbered after discovering the birth and subsequent disbursement of her multitudinous babies. Not quite: Turns out she’s got another eggsac working. You go girl:
Ornery Thornery
Tis the season… for goatheads. Grrrrrrrrrreat. I don’t know where I picked this fine fellow up but I saw it stuck in my front tire while I was still a couple miles away from work this morning. At least it had the decency to stay embedded in the sidetread and keep enough air in the …