Month: June 2009

the floor staff graciously agreed to pose their feet in a circle for me today. they’re always up for a bit of silliness.

Today some colleagues and I went over to the Museum of Science to see how they are using some collections items we gave them for their butterfly garden. So of course, I took some pictures of butterfly feet. (it’s hard to shoot just the feet, without getting the whole butterfly in).

Then we went down to the Live Animal Center, my old stomping grounds, and saw a huge variety of feet!
 

 
There were skink feet, and flying squirrel feet, and meerkat feet and alligator feet! (among others).

then we went to take a look at Triceratops Cliff. He had the biggest feet of everyone, even though he’s dead.

It was a very footful day indeed!

The theme of the week is “feet.” No particular reason. I was just looking at my feet today; I’ve always kind of liked them, even though they are very hard to find shoes for.

We had an open house to meet our new neighbors and put out some light snacks, including this fruit place. I dipped some of the strawberries in chocolate to make them just a bit decadent.

I had tickets to see Chicago last night with the moms, and I figured I felt OK enough to sit in a theater. It was showing at the new(ish) Hanover Theatre for Performing Arts in Worcester, which I’d never been to.  It’s professional theatre without the hassle of getting into Boston. It’s very beautiful inside with big chandeliers like this one; whoever rebuilt it a few years back to a great job.

and by the way, the show was terrific!

Though far from 100%, I was feeling better today; well enough to get out of the house and do a couple of things I’ve been meaning to do. Like go to the blinds/curtains place up the street and see what they’ve got.

and the answer is…everything. this is about 2/3 of the fabric books the very nice woman at the store brought me.

Nothing like being on hold. Especially when you’re waiting to talk to your doctor. Who, by the way, I still haven’t heard from.

at least the hold music was OK.

well, crap. here we go again: fever, aches, general discomfort, cough….yuk.

the big question of course is, is it pneumonia again, some random infection or….(insert dramatic music here) SWINE FLU!!?!?

OK, maybe three raccoons isn’t technically ” a lot” but it’s more than I usually see on any given morning. This picture is just of the two cubs (or kits); mom had already disappeared into the storm drain.  Check out Doug’s page if you want to see a picture of her.

A full five months into this project, and haven’t missed a day yet! But inspiration is getting harder to find, so this week I’m going with a theme. The theme is “lots,” as in “many” or “multiple.” For today, I’ve got a picture of lots and lots of herbs; everything from your basics to stuff you’ve never heard of. Fun, but overwhelming.