Bush's Pennsylvania Wildlife Camera

This video was on This is Colossal.com today, with a link to the You Tube channel of the photographer Robert Bush Sr., located in Pennsylvania. I instantly smiled when I started to watch it; it's a peaceful respite from this crazy world. He has a camera set up to film a spot at a creek where a tree fell across, and you see all kinds of wildlife using the tree to cross over to the other side. I hope you enjoy it.

Mount Baker

Mount Baker

I don't have a high enough quality camera to really capture colors as beautiful as they are, but here is Mount Baker right around sunset tonight. There was a band of clouds halfway on the horizon that were picking up the setting sun and were this beautiful pink that was coloring everything else, it was just so beautiful. Of course now that the clouds are clearing off it's stinkin' cold out there, so I'm glad I'm inside!

Timelapse Video of Thunderstorms by Chad Cowan

As usual, I found a great video over on This is Colossal.com that I hope you enjoy just as much as I did. I love the Great Pacific Northwest, but I really, really miss the thunderstorms of the Midwest. Growing up in Michigan, it was one of the best parts of summer, except for when the cable would go out as a result! Chad is on Instagram, and I just started following him, because I don't want to miss out on anything new.

This 'n That

Sherman's Lagoon - February 1, 2014

If this is not a photo-shopped picture, it is bleeping amazing that this snow drifted into the shape of a rose!


I will not be watching the Super Bowl tomorrow, but I still am rooting for the Seattle Seahawks nonetheless.

 It will not be as cold here as they are predicting for New Jersey, but we are looking at a cool dry week with temperatures only hitting the mid-30's during the day and high 20's at night. Ouch!

Paul Lettieri timelapse video of Grand Canyon

This was on Colossal.com today. It was filmed on Friday, November 29th.

Internet Love and Hate Story, Part Two

Buck visited Monday night, August 5th

Today's posts are brought to you with thanks to Ryan from Comcast. Bless his heart, he totally rewired the cable on the outside of the house, and to the power pole this morning.

I took the day off from work, because the appointment was scheduled between 8-10 am. He tested everything in the house first and then went and took a look outside and asked me if there had been any updates to the cable that I was aware of. I've lived in the house for 15 years, before that Mark had lived in it since at least when mom died in 1985. I don't think anything has been updated since then. He said the cable was actually broken in some spots it was so old and worn out. He was amazed the internet had worked at all, but that definitely explains why I had trouble after less than a week.

I also rented a pick up truck today from Fountain Rental so I could take some stuff to Recomp. It always feels good to purge deadwood (so to speak). I also ran some errands around town that are not easy on the bus. Then I treated myself to a burger from Boomers, which I had been thinking about for months!

 I hadn't driven since I rented a car for one day September of last year, and I'm thinking that I need to start doing this every month or so, just to be able to get out and break the routine. There are so many places that I miss going now, that I used to just hop in the car and go when the mood struck me. It still kind of blows my mind that it has been a little over a year now since the car went kaput. 

Some kind of Hawk that was checking out the neighbor's chickens

Around the Corner Summer Picnic

A week from today is the Around the Corner Summer picnic held at Hovander Homestead Park in Ferndale. Hopefully we will get our favorite spot next to the house under the big tree. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the dry weather continues as well.

Fragrance Garden at Tennet Lake Interpretative Center

Gardens behind Hovander Homestead house

Here are some pictures from visits to the park in the past. This is one thing I really miss about not having the car, is not being able to just head out here for a walk, or to the Maritime Park in Blaine. I love the Fragrance Garden.







I'll never forget coming out one summer evening after the dinner hour, and it was quiet and I kept seeing rabbits everywhere. I nicknamed it bunny central, including the one I saw munching on the leaves of something in the fragrance garden..

Fragrance Garden

Fragrance Garden

Wisteria at the Fragrance Garden

Giant Fossil at the Fragrance Garden

Hydrangea in front of Hovander Homestead house

Looking Up

June 2013

I took the picture of the rainbow above back in mid June, and completely forgot about it until I went to download the picture of the moon I took tonight. I love how big the moon can look when it is low on the horizon. It will be a full moon tomorrow night.

July 21