More fog from yesterday

After I finished cleaning up yesterdays foggy photos (or is that phoggy fotos?) I decided that this one was worth sharing also.  It is also from the Park Ridge East neighborhood park. 

This has certainly been a strange year for the weather.  We may hit 70 again today and my spinach and kale have all germinated (no complaints).  We finally had nearly 3/4" of rain last week, but are still way short for the year.

Foggy morning

There was a dense fog this morning so I went out and tried to catch a few photographs.  This one is from the local neighborhood park.

More Thanksgiving memories from the past

It seems that we are required to take a long walk after Thanksgiving dinner each year, and I always manage to get a photo of our shadows.  Today's photo is from Huffman Mill last year (for two years ago in Chrisney, click here).  I cheated and Photoshopped out a dog.

Memories from earlier Thanksgivings.....

I was sorting out some photos from previous Thanksgivings and I keep coming up with these strange UFO's that keep being reported in Southern Indiana during Thanksgiving week....

OK, Here's my feather

I guess if you have a microscope you have to look at a feather.  I didn't have anything else for today so I went ahead and took a photo of a feather I found in the back yard.  This is not it is all that spectacular (shot at about 40x) but it is better than nothing! (as usual, click on the image to enlarge it)

Winter garage

This is one of the reasons I have never put my car in the garage.  It looks like I have moved about half of my garden indoors!  Most of the hanging plants have survived several years in this way, and as I pointed out earlier, I like to overwinter lemon grass and several other "semi-hardy" plants that would not otherwise make it.  Actually, we will be eating on quite a few of the veggies in this photo.  There are two pots of Swiss chard as well as quite a few mints.

Believe me, this is much better organized this year!

Have you looked at your teabag lately?

We have been trying different teas and recently I keep running across these cute little "fishnet" teabags.  They are shaped like a tetrahedron (ha!-my crystallography background comes through) and work quite well.  I cut on apart (after drinking the tea) and looked at it under the microscopy.  The length of each "square" is 1/3 mm.

I guess should save up a few and make a net for catching little pond critters!