As I walked over to get a better look, the rainbow was positioned to exactly connect my dad's new house to where the old one was. Maddeningly, my camera's view wasn't wide enough to see it all. And the rainbow passed so quickly before there was time think of better ways to capture it.

Get a room!

Witnessed such a sweet moment during sunrise: 2 morning doves nuzzling each other in a tree above our lawnmower shed. It went on for so long, I was able to grab 2 different cameras! They hopped back and forth, closer together and further apart, alternately being affectionate then playing hard to get. Alas, my view was out our screened back window and in dim early morning light so the pictures aren't great. But I sat there like a voyeur and snapped a bunch of shots - unfortunately the best poses came out blurriest.

Seneca Indian Ring of Fire celebration on Bare Hill

Wall Therapy - Rochester, NY

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"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing
Love is knowing I am everything
And between the two my life moves."
- Nisargadatta Maharaj







Pretty Girl Productions Presents:

Flying the Tuttorosso flag!

one of my dad's paperweights

random enjoyment from the internet: bugs & frogs edition!

Hubert Duprat's art collaboration with Caddisfly Larvae (via) - I've never seen this:








Description copied from Wikipedia: Hubert Duprat is a French artist known for his unusual work, an artistic intersection between caddisfly larvae and gold, opal, turquoise and other precious stones. Caddisfly larvae live in fresh water and naturally construct elaborate protective tubes for themselves from materials found in their environment. Under natural conditions they use the objects found in their stream bed homes such as pieces of wood, fragments of fish bone or crustacean shell, grains of sand, plant debris and small stones. The tubes serve various purposes; the stones are used to increase traction in fast-moving streams, they serve as disguise for the soft-bodied insect and the spiky bits make the tube and thus, the fly larva, more difficult for predators to swallow. Duprat, born in 1957, began his work with caddisfly larvae in the early 1980s. He collects the larvae from their normal environments and he takes them to his studio. There he gently removes their own natural cases and puts the larvae in tanks filled with his own materials, from which they begin to build their new protective sheaths. When he began the project, he only provided the caddis larvae with gold flakes. Since then, they have enjoyed various semi-precious and precious stones, including turquoise, coral and lapis lazuli, as well as sapphires, pearls, rubies, and diamonds.


the squeak of a Desert Rain Frog (via) -

Kaleidomatic!

I'm not usually a tech-y geek, but I am totally addicted to this iPhone app!!!
The above images were all generated from random stuff in our living room (green curtains, bookshelves, etc). It's even more awesome to watch it in motion - Turns everything you see into a Grateful Dead show! 8)))

Vallarta Adventures - we survived!

This was last Monday... We went on an amazing "outdoor adventure excursion", via Vallarta Adventures - We arrived at a remote location via speed boat, then rode donkeys over treacherous mountain terrain up to higher areas, then zip-lined and repelled through the jungles of the Sierra Madre! Unfortunately they don't allow you to take your own camera - instead you can buy photos taken by their staff, packages at $100+ which we opted not to do :( So, these are the only photos we have: sites we saw on our way to & from the activities (including a ride Tim & I hitched on the company "unimog" to get home afterwards). But we have great memories - It was awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone going to Puerto Vallarta!
(um, no - I'm not wearing a fake nose in the photo below):