Category: Pictures

This looks like it’s most likely a robin, though it was kind of big for a robin, and the color is a little weird. Maybe it’s molting, or some such. Anyway, it was perched right outside the window, and Her Majesty found it absolutely fascinating. So I took a picture.

This is our cast aluminum patio table, which always looks really cool when snow piles up on the lattice-work pattern of the top. Click the image above for a slightly larger picture. We’ve gotten more than a foot of very powdery snow thus far, and it’s still coming down hard. I taught my class, gave… Continue reading Topography of Winter

Between trip planning and thinking about Boskone, I’ve been thinking a fair bit about Japan recently. I took a whole bunch of pictures when I was there, with a camera borrowed from my parents, and looking at them now, my first thought is “Boy, I could make these look really good in GIMP…” Of course,… Continue reading Idle Photo Conversion Question

A Christmas gift from my sister: Yes, that’s an origami Discworld. A big turtle, four elephants, and a flat world inhabited by silly people. All folded out of paper (well, the map was printed and cut out, but the elephants and turtle are origmai). From a different angle:

I can’t really come up with any scientific significance for this one, but it amuses Kate to no end to have an elephant angel on the tree. And why not? It’s supposed to be a season of miracles, and what could be more miraculous than an elephant with butterfly wings shooting stars out of its… Continue reading Theology on the Tree

We might as well close out the week on a high note, so here’s tonight’s ornament. Actually, there are two of them:

Tonight’s Science on the Tree ornament is a little more obscure:

A long day today, so we’ll go with an obvious one: