I’ve been pondering happiness this past week. I’m not entirely sure why, but it’s been kicking around in the back of my mind. The universe even slapped me with it when a video from Veritasium showed up in my feed on the same topic: If you watch that, you’ll…

Ah, fall colours. That’s the Japanese maple in the front yard. Beautiful and horrifically messy. There’s one in the backyard too, over the water feature, which is now full of leaves. Last week included November fifth: Guy Fawkes day. Did you mark the event? Do you recall the nursery rhyme? …

Greetings! The above photo captures a weird fungus growing on an old stump in our backyard. It really is that bright, and it’s surprisingly tough. I have no idea what it is called. No, wait. I live in a connected world, and the Google Lens app is surprisingly good at…

Hey! That’s my own photo. One of the last hydrangea blooms we have at the moment. And it’s been cold enough recently — near freezing at night — that I suspect it won’t last. Welcome to the end of yet another week. The big news this week is that I…

Oh no! I’ve been shot! In the left arm. By a needle. Full of Covid vaccine. Yesterday. At the moment I am a bit dopey and my arm hurts. Thankfully it was Pfizer. Of all of my previous vaccinations — and I’ve had a menagerie of them — Moderna hit…

Greetings once again. You might think that introductory image means I have no photos to share this week. That would be an incorrect assumption. Instead it turns out the two photos I have are simply not that exciting:

Greetings fellow humans. I am sorry to report there are no photos from my personal collection this time. There were none to chose from. Instead, I picked something that Medium handed me when I gave it the keyword “blue.” Because I could. The week was… a thing. It went somewhere…

That’s your author on a hike last Sunday, trying to be seen by the mountain bikers before they attempt a physics experiment involving putting two or more solid objects into the same physical space at exactly the same moment. …

I like this post naming scheme, and the phrase “altitonant jeremiad” is an apt description of the lives of a number of people I have known. You’ll have to look those words up if that makes no sense. Also, happy equinox! Fall is officially here, and at least for us…