Lila Prime

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question. Previously 2016 , 2017 , 2019 . How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? Some stu...

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

 Every part of this photo seems to invite fingers to run across it. Ika on Parrish Beach. This post's theme word is talpa (n), either ...

 It's a pandemic and we've sent away the few students who were here. This is campus but looks as empty as a golf course. This post...

 The curb-to-sidewalk verge has a fantastic texture! This post's theme word is marsescence (n), "the retention of dead leaves, etc....

Emily Willingham 's Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis is not what I expected. Based on the cover art and the subtitle, it se...

 After many months of living at the end of a narrow internet pipe, my bits finally stopped flowing (the pipe was blocked? ok, metaphor) and ...

I went outside and discovered a spider had built an extensive web across the rear entrance of my house, spanning the door, deck, and stairs....

There were a lot of landscapers cleaning up this yard, but I walked by too late to see what must have been an incredible Flamingo Setup Peri...

 These chickens were just out on the sidewalk. Chicken run? More like chicken, lightly wander around. This post's theme word is rutilant...

It's National Moth Week , as you surely already know. I observed the ... week... by going to a moth-viewing event. We heard a little le...

Frequently spotted on the block are an unnumbered collection of bunnies. These are not just my neighbors , but also my non-tax-paying non-co...

I am a notorious blueberry-lover. 'Twas with great anticipation that I received the housewarming gift of someone planting blueberry bush...

I have a new neighbor. Can you spot them in this picture? They were nibbling on something in the lawn, but I am not yet familiar with al...

When I walked to work this morning the sun had just risen and it was cold, so I wore my jacket and mittens. But it turned out to be a warm,...

It's incredibly picturesque here. And that's true even without the filters added! This post's theme word is revet (v. tr.), ...

Really spectacular sunset today. I mean, the sun set in its usual way (by having my reference frame zoom to point away), but the inter...

By well-known folk wisdom, the gorges are gorgeous: Seriously scenic hiking.  We came in search of a geocache, which we needed rock-cli...

I would later learn more about it, but for the moment, I remain charmed and baffled by the purple-painted tree, in its own separate zone and...

My desk already had fun math puzzles, as decoration and to occupy my hands and mind while I spin my brain-wheels on research problems. To ...