Category: Nature

Plucking Pomegranates

We picked our first two pomegranates this evening. The softball-sized fruit looked so red and shiny, we just couldn’t resist finding out whether they were really ripe – or just looked that way. Debbie halved one of them and the fleshy seeds certainly looked ripe. As it turns out, we might have been a week… Continue reading Plucking Pomegranates

Jurassic Flowerbed

I stepped out the front door around noon to change some light bulbs and heard a rustling in the flowerbed. Given the number of rattlesnake sightings in our neighborhood this year, I was in no mood to assume the noise came from a beneficent source, so I tip-toed over…and spotted the fellow in the following… Continue reading Jurassic Flowerbed

Life of a Thunderstorm

We killed a small rattlesnake during our walk yesterday evening. It was flattened against the concrete of the sidewalk, absorbing the radiating heat. I stuck a camera in its face and it did nothing but flick its tongue. Normally, that would be the extent of our interaction, but because it was in our neighborhood, on… Continue reading Life of a Thunderstorm

New Gazette Header Graphic?

So, I’ve been thinking about whether to re-incorporate an ant into the header graphic, but it’s hard to decide which one. Here’s a possibility. Link via Daring Fireball

Fire Ant Farewell

[Update (years later!) Hahahahah…*cough*…uh, well — just kidding! Apparently, there’s no effective 12-Step program for giving up blogging.] This is the 3,846th post on the Gazette. It’s also the last. After more than six years, it’s time to try something different, although at this point I’m not precisely sure what that means.

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