Random Thursday: The [Mostly] Photos Edition

Hi, folks. Before we get started, I just want to give you a reminder that humanity is doomed. Happy Thursday!

Bluebonnet season is almost over, but that simply means that other wildflowers are stepping up their game. The deep blues are giving way to the increasing wavelengths of reds, oranges, and yellows. Prickly pears are starting to bloom, and Indian blankets (aka firewheels) are showing off. Deer, being red-green colorblind, don’t care.

Bluebonnets haven’t yet entirely disappeared. They’re pretty hardy and persistent, and refuse to respond to directions as to where they should and should not sprout.

We’ve had some good rainfall lately, hence the spectacular wildflowers. The fungi have been pretty happy as well.

Debbie and I are puzzled by a new (to us) phenomenon: squirrels have been foraging in great numbers in our front yard. Now, if they were limiting themselves to the lawn, we could see how they were perhaps looking for acorns, but they also spend an inordinate amount of time appearing to eat something on or among the pavers of our driveway. They’re occasionally accompanied by a few doves.

Well, as it turns out, Sciurus niger has been known to feast on pollen, and this time of year, we have more of that than Carter has pills (OK, I’m dating myself with that reference; but don’t try to tell me that you don’t get it yourself).

Moving on to the world of inanimate objects, here’s a circuit board…a non-corroded one at that. I can’t remember where I got it, but I do know that some device succumbed to my toolkit to give it up.

I do know where the following image originated. My decade-old gasoline-powered weedeater began to annoy me to a sufficient degree that I retired it in favor of a new battery-powered model. And, as I am wont to do, I had an overwhelming urge to dismantle it. The following photo is a heavily-manipulated image of the engine, but I’m sure you knew that.

Last, and possibly least, here are a couple of armature windings from…something. I don’t know; this stuff just seems to magically appear in our garage. But look at the expressions on their little faces! I don’t know what they were up to, but whatever it was, they were surprised to be caught in the act.

In conclusion: More nature…

But also…