Sometimes I find things in my notes app that I do not remember making. For instance: This is Khan Noonien Singh fondly recalling some witch’s butter fungus he saw on a hike one time.

I believe that the literal “oldest joke in the book” is that thing where you reach behind someone to tap on their other shoulder so they will look that way. I can easily imagine this joke predating language.

Sometimes when you see that particularly abhorrent post from someone you only have passing engagement with, it can be enough to notice others dragging them into the light. Let someone else do that work so you can concentrate on yourself and your real relationships.

Moonlight over Bob’s Long exposure under a full moon

Jim Jarmusch’s Alien III

First make the thing. Then find the people who already think it is perfect.

That thing you like to make that doesn’t hurt anyone & seems to make people happy every time even if you don’t think you are good at it? Set aside a bit of time toward that thing this week. If you don’t have the time & I can help let me know. If it makes people happy you are good enough at it.

While on a video call on the back deck this morning I saw a bird.

I love when a malaprop just works! A favorite that I still use almost 20 years later came from an elderly Ukrainian gentleman in Issaquah: You can’t BF a BFer.

Capered some nasturtium seeds with yellow and purple wax beans and garlic bulbils! Now we wait…

Gettin’ answers

Golden Thread, Coptis Trifolia

The Paste (for Project Kimchi25) Gonna squish this experiment all over some heads of napa from Tony’s garden. Gochugaru Scapes Blanched elephant garlic Vegan fish sauce Cosmic Crisp Arbols Fresh ginger Gochujang Li’l bit of water

I know a shortcut

I like rocks.

Jack White, hands to mouth, looking like the giggly, bashful love child of Michael Cera and a Bulletproof Boyscout while John C. Reilly sings Happy Birthday to him has been one of the highlights of my summer.

Drifting on a pond in Maine

Fishin’ Blues

Space shuttles have been not-a-thing about half as long as space shuttles were a thing.

Maine people! What are your favorite Maine produced beers/ciders/nearbeers/meads?

Artifact

A kestrel just strolled across my front yard, maybe ten feet away and five above the grass. Real slow and casual like.

Liz was getting ready this morning, heading to a conference on AI and government. She asked what outfit would be appropriate. My answer:

Tokens for the Owl Road

Reservoir Dogs on the sidewalks Abbey Road in the crosswalks Summer is nigh in Vacationland

Filmy

“That’s your protest sign” is the new, “that’s what she said” or “name of your sex tape”. You should try it out. My first use was in response to, “I’m having trouble getting these crackers back in the bag”.

Lithographic memory

Memory unlocked! I am ten and I am sprinting through the woods in Winter Harbor with a red plastic gem taped to my palm because really I am thirty and Sandmen are chasing me.

Talisman

Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes a butt is called a moon Just when you thought the dream had passed Sometimes it's also called an ass

Sometimes you need a break from all of the rocket punching.

Some Barsoom leaking out of our moon, now’s our chance.

I love you. It’s going to be alright. You should tell someone.

Feisty li’l asphalt whalepuppy

The woodpile at Carousel always has some neat critters in it. There was also some witch’s butter under a thin crust of ice. It was bitterly windy out on the pond but it was cozy and still under the spruce and cedar. #MushroomSky

An older piece

Cortinarius Violaceus on Burying Island, Maine, USA #MushroomSky

Me wondering why I have Der Kommisar stuck in my head every time I pick up The Kid from daycare. Me trying to buckle a toddler into the car seat: DON’t turn around

Rat. From a WIP commission about 13 years ago. Pen and ink.

Glowy! This one is formatted for phone wallpaper. You can use it if you like.

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Look! It’s a giant cartoon switchblade!

The fruit of ghost pipe looks more like Japanese candy than anything else in the natural world.

Primaries

“There is no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were” Happy Birthday Nina

Sometimes I make animal pictures.

Shlimy but fruitin’!

Alice was the best pooch, and was very patient with me and my jokes. To a point.