the birds, THE BIRDS!!

oregon juncothis was taken from inside the house and through a window… if (as i have planned pretty much ever since we first put up bird feeders here) i set up a blind, i can get a lot closer and take photos of the pileated woodpeckers and the red-shafted flickers that show up around here on a regular basis… 🙂

the book of children


since geico made their xtranormal commercial, things have changed: apparently the characters and sets that used to be free are no longer free, which includes the character and the set in chapter 6. i don’t know if this is because they have introduced new free characters, or if it is because they changed their business model (which they didn’t tell me about). one way or the other, i had to spend actual money to get this published, and if i’m going to have to spend more money to get future books published, i’m probably not going to do so… fortunately i made hi-res downloads of all the books…