So my wife was freaked out by a bug recently. She wanted me to 'take care of it.' Usually that means bug death. However, I don't usually kill bugs unless they are wood ticks or mosquitoes. So I scooped

Nothing like finding something orange in the garden, right? This time, the orange is made of glass. I think it's glass, anyway. I wasn't about to go fondle it to be sure. This was in a botanical garden

There used to be a time when a weird beer name would turn me off. There used to be a time when if I didn't recognize the beer can I would pass it by. There used to be a time when I wouldn't buy a beer

I have more stuff than I really need. Most people do. But as is typical, the moment you start throwing stuff out or decluttering, the next day you find a need for that silly gadget or leftover scrap of

Since this is a blog, I'm allowed to dump my thoughts onto the page every now and again without anyone judging or caring. I'm self-employed, which is actually not some euphemism for sitting at home and

During a recent camping trip, we came across some massive trees covered in spanish moss. Arching branches reach out to provide shade, but the spanish moss has a tendency to choke off the trees over time,

Ok, I know this is not truly the typical yellow we see for Wednesday Yellow, but I was looking through some old vacation photos and came across this beautiful plate of fish and chips. I was in Cape Cod

I was sorting through some of my old electronics amidst stuff on my shelves. As a longtime collector of stuff, I have a lot of stuff to sort through. I found a box of old Russian-made tubes, like those

I think I visited San Francisco once. But this is the only photo I can find of the visit. I don't remember taking this photo. Like most folks in the digital age, I have a phone full of photos. And if you're

It's hard to know where purple stops and red begins. Or lavender. Or periwinkle. I believe what I took a photo of here is a Heliconia, but properly named or not this is a beautiful flower. It almost looks

As I've mentioned in a previous post, I do enjoy pizza. Homemade pizza beats almost anything else. Make your own crust, your own sauce, build it however you like, bake it to your own preference, then eat

Trails in the woods don't mean much except to the person walking them. It's hard to capture the scale and beauty of a verdant forest in a single photo, and to everyone else it's just a mass of green and

I am normally a pretty big fan of New Belgium beers. Other than being bored with seeing Fat Tire everywhere, their other offerings are usually solid, if unspectacular. Seeing the Abbey Dubbel in the stores,

Recently, I took a bus tour through parts of Italy. Although the scenery was great, the hills and mountains amazing, the old towns and ruins beautiful, the most memorable part was all the really tight

I was able to visit Boulder Junction, WI recently. This is a small touristy area in the northern portion of the state. It's near excellent camping, hiking, water, and other fun nature things. I only grabbed

Looking at the charts for crypto values, it's hard not to be disillusioned. I don't really understand how the market works from a psychological perspective. Assuming these sellers are not all bots or automated

Now that the host for monomad has opened the doors to all monochromes, and removed the daily categories, we're no longer bound by the rules. There are no rules here. So, one of my visits to Southern USA

I like that summer is here. I can go out and explore the trails and parks around me, get some sun and exercise, and generally enjoy nature. One of the more scenic parks in Wisconsin is the Dells of the

I'm a big fan of pizza. I'm not even picky about it. I'll eat excellent gourmet pizza at a fancy restaurant, or frozen pizza dolled up with a bit of my own spices or added cheeses.I don't usually have

I don't take a lot of abstract photos. Whenever I have my camera in hand, it's to take an intentional shot of a particular thing or event. I don't go out of my way to look for unusual views or interesting