"... manifestations are not to be confused with vampires that were never human in the first place, which may even assume a vegetal guise (among numerous indignities through history, the Roma suffered the obscure nuisance of vampire watermelons ( Read more... )

We went to see Into Temptation at the Parkway last night. As we were sticking to the "leather" couch in the front row, the owner stopped by to say we might be more comfortable on the side aisles because the fans direct most of their force that way. Turns out that the original 1930s cooling system is still in place. The Parkway has its own well and ( Read more... )

...on Diamond Lake. We regularly see at least one pair of eagles in the neighborhood, plus an immature eagle, and a passle (I'm pretty sure that's the correct term) of Cooper's hawks ( Read more... )

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Can you spot the mantis I found in my mom's yard? You have two chances...


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R, the spousal unit, was reading the paper yesterday morning while I was cutting up peaches in the kitchen. I heard "hmmmmmmm, wow!" from the dining room. "Giant squid?" I asked ( Read more... )

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She's in northern Illinois...not THAT much further south, but the snowdrops and crocuses are in bloom. The snowdrops are in week two or three...
Evidence:

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My great aunt and uncle lived in Canada at the beginning of WWI--Uncle Clarence was an engineer and helped with the war effort. Mom found this postcard among her things recently (Mom was 8 months old when the card was sent). I thought beadslut and 1crowdedhour especially would appreciate the image.

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When my grandparents still lived in dairy country have I seen this:


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