Our neighbors, Jennifer and Dennis, hosted – and played – in a folk concert this past weekend. How cool is that?
August 30, 2009. Kala Point, Port Townsend, WA.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
eye on the prize
This little guy was about 20 feet up the side of an apartment building, heading for the roof.
June 27, 2009. Calabasas, CA.
two-beak memory
An early design for computer core memory. Researchers gave up on the idea when they realized that failure to keep the memory lines clean would asphyxiate the computer operators.
June 27, 2009. Calabasas, CA.
chocolate petoskey
When I was growing up, we vacationed at different Michigan state parks each year. One summer we stayed near Petoskey, and from there we learned about Petoskey rocks. They’re a fossilized coral, and they look a lot like this gourmet cinnamon pepper chocolate that met a hot day.
August 27, 2009. druid labs pnw
reeling in the big one
Our neighbor Louis is a life-long tinkerer, a practice that grew out of his years as a farmer in East Washington. Here he’s bringing ashore his home-built boat.
August 14, 2006. Kala Point, Port Townsend, WA.
hair envy
When I was in junior high shop class we learned how to use a micrometer by measuring the thickness of our hair. Mine was the thinnest in the class, to which the teacher said, “Carroll, you have baby hair!”
(It wasn’t quite up there with Hey, Coach, Don’t Call Me A Queer, but still.)
This fellow was in front of us on the trail at Hurricane Ridge and even from a distance his hair stood out. The black shirt helped; I wonder if he chooses only dark colors?
July 4, 2008. Hurricane Ridge, WA.
xenoglyphics
Even though we’d been searching the skies for aliens for decades, we misinterpreted the spatially-based, light-modified language as just pretty flares. Come back, Sextos, come back!
August 22, 2009. druid labs pnw
at the center of the invisible web
One of the – mostly – unseen denizens at druid labs. This is a European garden spider, about an inch across, that was hanging around our deck.
August 24, 2009. druid labs pnw
timing the sunset
A sundial watches the end of the day.
May 2, 2009. Vancouver, BC.
hiding from the man
Kitzel pretends to be owned by our friends John and Linda. As you can see, he’s not the friendliest or most outgoing cat. I snuck the camera up behind a basement curtain and got this shot before he headed off for somewhere a bit less occupied.
November 5, 2006. Westmont, IL.
packing for a trip
I’m thinking the owner is a substitute teacher who has to moonlight as a car janitor.
June 27, 2009. Calabasas, CA.
just a cog in the web
My left hand. To go with my right foot, I guess..
My mom used to say I was born old. You’d certainly think so – my hands have always looked like this!
July 3, 2009. Buffalo, WY.
skeletal bonsai
The latest decorating trend for people with black thumbs.
June 27, 2009. A balcony in Calabasas, CA.
there’s a storm a’comin’ in
I’ve had several “fifteen minutes of fame” in my life. I got interviewed on TV in the mid 70’s for a euchre marathon, and a couple of times in the 80’s for flying kites (amazing how quickly a correspondent will show up if you’re lying on a beach flying a kite!). And I’ve been in newspapers a couple of times – for winning a science fair and for flying kites at the Washington State International Kite Festival.
Earlier this summer we were in Powell, Wyoming, visiting some friends, when a thunderstorm came through. This is the storm front as it was approaching the city. Our friends submitted it to the Powell Tribune – and it was published!
This is a 6-shot panorama that I stitched together in Photoshop Elements (yeah, I gave the wrong info to the Tribune). A larger image is here and an immense one here.
July 6, 2009. Powell, WY.
a real blade of grass
There behind a glass
stands a real blade of grass
Be careful as you pass,
move along, move along
Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Part 2, by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Detail of a glass piece by Henner Schröder, Vitroglyph.
August 8, 2009. Chimacum, WA.
two-headed sleep monster
I had to stop and look a bit to understand the geometry!
July 6, 2008. Kingston-Edmonds ferry, WA.
locked up
On the notice board at a trailhead in Calabasas. I think the cobwebs are a more effective lock…
June 27, 2009. Calabasas, CA.
bleached
One of the denizens of Muddy Waters coffee house in Santa Barbara. It looked like papier-mâché over metal armature.
June 26, 2009. Muddy Waters, Santa Barbara, CA.
babe’s hat
That’s BlueHeronDruid under that handsome hat. And wearing a Wildwoods International Kite Festival t-shirt.
August 2, 2009. druid labs pnw
day sleeper
Perhaps in a testament to the number of stupid movies I’ve watched on Comedy Central over the years, the first thing I thought when I saw this was, “Yo, stoner! The towel goes on the bottom!” But no, prosaicness1 wins out. Just a day sleeper blocking the door lights.
1It’s a word. Honest.
June 27, 2009. A random apartment in California.
days in the life of druid labs 
