I bought a pair of gloves and left them, en-bagged, on the table. And later discovered the fantastically creepy way they had positioned themselves.

Sunset in Oakland.

This is what my front yard currently looks like (after the big storm on 10.13). That was once an herb garden beneath the branch, but no more.

Glorious pumpkin cupcake from Nugget! Complete with crystallized sugar.

My glorious, semi-pointless new owl doorstopper.

Charming overgrown building, with CCTV.

(More on my Flickr. Didn't take as many this time.)

Looking down the dam at Lower Scotts Flat.

Pepper peering through my gate, ever so intrigued by my cats. Demonbeast! (albeit a sweet one)

Stormy sky - shortly before the first rain of the season!

Bidding farewell to dear Old Blue (the Boat).

Waiting at Skydance for our plane & people to be ready. Sunflowers!

Cacti flower and buds at the greenhouse. For perspective, each fully-opened bloom is a bit larger than my hand.

I'm don't know if this counts as a post, but I'll decree that it does, for now. It has too many syllables to be truly catchy, though.

A squirrel bearing an unripe walnut almost bigger than its head. Rather impressive.

My Gymnocalycium mihanovichii - the first time it's opened two flowers at once!

A detail in one of the greenhouses.

A cuddly little jumping spider. There are many like him living in my greenhouses.

I found his oddly-colored teal mandibles especially notable. See?


Sorry to any arachnophobes.

Nick and Thea's first waltz. Glee!

In which a praying mantis descends, perhaps sizing you up with a hungry gleam in its enigmatic eyes... (also known as Fun With Odd Angles.)

A different picture of the same mantis on my Flickr.

A mid-air catch, at Circus Center's Flying Trapeze class (astoundingly fun). Slightly blurry, but my favorite action shot.