Weekend Tidbits or an Ode to Hedgehogs, Water, and the Deep Time of Trees, plus a few Con Men

Hedgehogs, UK Politics, and general understated Amusement in this Metafilter post: “1566 seems very recent, but the hedgehog was around before then” Transcript of MP Rory Stewart’s hedgehog defense in Parliament in 2017. Of all the possible Tory MPs possible to be the next…

Sunday Tidbits for Your Reading Pleasure…

Above photo of a rose taken by Ms. Jen on May 26, 2018 at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, with a Nikon D850 and a Nikon 50mm f/1.4G lens. The Pivot: “Something huge is happening in the UK right now, and I wonder where it’s going….

Following the Huntington Beach Oil Trails, a Tale of Two Photos

On the Left: 1950s/1960s photo from the Huntington Beach archives, On the Right: 2010 photo taken today by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N86. Sun. 06.13.10 – Yesterday while researching my blog post on the century of oil wells & pumping in Seal Beach…