a Sunday for sleeping in

"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: We go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; We make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."

~Charles Caleb Colton

pretty soon...

this squirrel will run out of nuts,


these trees will be completely bare,


and this mess will be gone!
(to be fair, the camera could point in any direction and find a mess here...but that's all gonna change!)

the difference between a million and a billion, measured in time

a billion seconds = 31 years, 259 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 40 seconds
(approximately, adjusted for daylight savings and leap years)

a million seconds = only 11.5 days!
(approx. 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds...)

swirling petticoats

picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies...

cloud primer

loved these stamps from the US Post Office a few years back:

channel off the West River

tree with a wry smile:

another day, another nut to crack:

views from the bridge over the West River at the fishing access on Sunnyside Drive:

bits of my weekend