On my way to the car after the media literacy conference on Thursday, I startled this sweet cottontail loping around the parking lot.

(Conference updates to follow. Priorities, people.)

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Just for the record, this and all similar posts should be interpreted as expressions of my creativity and joie de vivre.

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Dianthus ‘Firewitch’ on my porch. I will have to take a better photo tomorrow when she is not in the sun.
Off tomorrow to the white privilege conference for a few days.

This is a giant and very beautifully marked moth that was on the wall outside by the light last night. Photo taken under […]

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This creature is in my house.

Here I was, being all good and doing my chores, and I just happened to notice what looked like a very long thin black appendage weaving its questing way around the bottom of The Noam Chomsky Reader. I’m always in denial at first about any potential large creepy-crawly […]

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Though sometimes they pretend to like each other:

To this day girl prefers cats.
Horse’s preferences unknown.
Ask and you shall receive, SE.
EDITED TO ADD:
In spite of our unhappiness, we did have an odd, unappealing, sycophantic gnome as our servant, so it was not all bad.

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I’ve decided to give myself a little break from blogging. I’m going through a moral crisis or something, and I don’t have anything useful or productive to say. To those of you who’ve written me, thanks, and if you haven’t gotten a personal note yet, you will soon; not blogging will free up […]

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Last week I went to see “Our Daily Bread.” This German film about modern food production methods has no soundtrack; there is no emotional appeal through music, and no attempt to influence the viewer’s opinion by scripted narration. The sounds you hear are the sounds of the actions you are seeing. I […]

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This is Hopp.

She’s visiting from Colorado. She’s 9 months old and packs more energy into a smaller package than almost anything I’ve ever seen.
Hopp, Mesa, Linda, Barb, Kya and I took a walk to the WestWind canyon rim this afternoon, and it was glorious. Here are Hopp and Mesa enjoying the view.

We now […]

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foxx’s pretty dog Mesa

another sampler from Barbara Walker’s Mosaic Knitting

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This is Jazzy. She’s technically Earth’s dog, but everyone adores her. She has the greatest dog personality–she’s friendly and likes being petted, but doesn’t hang on you. She definitely has her own life. But just when you think she doesn’t care, she’ll come sit by you and lean on your leg […]

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