I have this compulsive need to organize all my plant photos into sets based on which botanical family they belong to. My list of plant families keeps growing and growing and is turning entirely unmanageable on flickr. (You can see the group of plant family sets here.)
I’ve never formally studied taxonomy, and I [...]
Today I had that first transcendent bike ride of summer where the air slips over your face and arms like cream, and turbulent eddies behind your head jiggle your hair back and forth as it pokes out of your helmet…
It’s 67 degrees right now. I didn’t wear a bra, or socks, or a bike [...]
I spotted a Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in the front yard yesterday. It was rooting around for something at the base of a shrub, in broad daylight. I grabbed my camera and eased the door open very slowly to get a photo. Even though I was quiet, the possum heard me and [...]
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I just listed a handful of lovely 8×12″ color prints of my photography in my Etsy shop for the Beemouse Institute for Advanced Study.
Some of them are prints of my favorite photographs, such as the ivy-leafed toadflax (which I have on my business card) and the orange opium poppy.
These are prints on that [...]
I just read this awesome little essay by Ballookey.
Um. It made me want to stand on my desk and throw things.
This is my favorite part:
Someone says something incredible, don’t just take their word for it, look it up. Someone claims that a long-dead man of questionable historical reality is speaking to them from beyond [...]
Good morning, internets.
Today we are going to be talking about the wonderful annual vine known as the “cardinal climber”. It’s a member of the morning glory family, and its botanical name is Ipomoea sloteri. “Ipomoea” means “wormlike” in Latin, referring to the coil…
Actually who cares, I just wanted to share some photos I [...]
This is how I feel right now:
I decided, at my doctor’s urging, to try cutting back on Lyrica, which is the pain med I’m taking for fibromyalgia. She thinks it might be contributing to my wicked headaches. I cut back by 50mg, which is 1/3 my evening dose, and 1/5 my total dose. [...]
Excerpt from May 5, 2008 journal
…One of the weirdest things is that even while writing this I’m consumed with a feeling of “who gives a shit? Who is going to even want to read this? Who wants to read about another person’s suffering?” I have this idea in my head that there [...]
My best friend Jen is freaking hilarious.
I went to the Seattle Tilth plant sale with her this weekend, and I got some video of her giving advice about how to properly leave voicemail.
Man, Jen makes me laugh so much. My life would be much darker without her.
Hello, people of the internets. I sure like this photo I took yesterday.
It’s a puddle on top of bike lockers in front of the Health Sciences Building at the U of Washington.
I don’t know why I like it… but I do. (I took it with my Little Camera.)