If you're waiting at the light at Indianapolis and Ewing, you'll hear the monk parakeets overhead. They're nesting in the Skyway.

Just sitting here waiting and watching for my cicada invasion. None here by the lake yet. But there's a fungus among us...maybe they all have this "zombie infection" that newsreaders giggle about. And if a bird eats one of these mutants it will hallucinate...Have you ever really looked at your wing?

Looky looky!

What are you reading for St. David's Day?

I'm going to start using my good dishes all the time. They are a pleasure to handle or to look at, a pleasure I would like to meet every day.

God natt Oslo.
God natt Lillebjørn.

Time for my family's traditional January First supper - navy bean soup with lots of carrots and potatoes, followed by a main course of Let's Finish Up Some Of These Christmas Cookies, Shall We. Happy New Year Everybody!

Just in case I didn't say it - very Happy Holidays to you and the family. I keep twelve days of Christmas and this is the second so my greeting is is perfectly timely!

Did anyone else have a Twitter meltdown?

Tonight the Sarabande is pacèd
Melancholy

Happy Birthday William Blake, who definitely shines White Light and wants to show How Everything Still Turns to Gold.

With the recent TOS changes on the bird site along with the growing presence of AI art scrapers, I feel like I should remind people of Glaze, a program developed by the University of
Chicago that adds an imperceivable filter on any image that makes it unusable for AI learning.

Eternal vigilance for Labor Day!

Some Friday lilies.