I was in an ill temper today (my present normal), and so this annoying bird received not a scrap. Now I feel guilty.   

Sean and I visted Mom for Mother's Day today. A squirrel visited us while we were relaxing under the shade of the crabapple tree that re...

 Are pets called "pets" because you "pet" them? I'm afraid to research this question. 

I finally watched The Lion King today, expecting greatness given the film's position on many best-of lists. But the film left me cold. I...

On the left, a polar bear; on the right, a grizzly. After a lot of fiddling I managed to create a fairly decent base for the polar bear, but...

Here is a photo of one of the Etsell horses, shot sometime in the 1950s. The Etsell horses were all gone by the time I arrived on the s...

I was retrieving a book from our library when I spotted it: a brown spider, about four inches in diameter, darting out from under the cl...

Back in 2015, Sylvia and I visited Costa Rica. While relaxing on the beach at Playa Avellanas, this handsome fellow scuttled up to our lo...

While cleaning out my office, I found this, an old Crackerjack prize. It's a lenticular photo of an elephant; move the picture back a...

I'm taking some time off to declutter my home office, and in the process I'm coming across all kinds of oddities. Here's a W...

I think this is me, probably around 1974 or 1975. I appear to be in Leaf Rapids, in Churchill Place, judging by the look of the fence beh...

Sean and Sylvia and I went to visit Mom and Dad to celebrate Mom's birthday a day early. While chatting in the back yard, I photograp...

Our family has some slides labelled "James Farm 1972." Here's a scan of one of those slides, in which we see a tiger behind...

Sometime in 1973, either my parents or one of my aunts or uncles captured this shot of a blue bird enjoying the hospitality of a bird hou...

Here's a photo of a road sheep of some kind that I shot while on my ill-fated trip down the Alaska Highway. While I lost a car in the...