Lis's Project 365

like I’m going to walk through these plaster and paper tress and say “oh, it’s just like being in real nature!”

PS.  I got “spoken to” for taking this photo. (This mall is far too pretentious to actually yell at people.) It’s against the rules. It was entirely unclear why.

as happens with cars, my headlights have gotten really hazy and cloudy. Doug got me a headlight restorer kit. You can see what a difference it makes!

want to try something cool? color some water with food coloring–3 or 4 colors is good. take a piece of wax paper, lay it over a white sheet of paper. sprinkle about 10 drops of colored water onto the wax paper. use a straw to blow your dots around.  put the whole set up in a baking sheet if you’re worried about mess.

add some instrumental music in the background, and you’ll be there for hours.

you wouldn’t think that my workplace would have so much in the way of “sensitive material.”  But we do.

on my desk at work. he’s not always upside down though.

There has been a pair of herring gulls nesting on the green roof at work, and at some point over the last few days, the eggs hatched. There are 3 chicks (in the photo, one of them is hiding under mom. or dad. hard to say.) I’m sure I’ll continue to photograph the little grey fuzzballs as they grow and turn into big grey gulls.

it will take a few years for them to come into the adult plumage their parents have, assuming they all make it to adulthood safely.

We had a good-bye party after work for a coworker who is moving on, as they say, to new challenges. He’s been supervising the teen workers at the museum for many years now; here’s two of this year’s teens trying to figure out how to sing “Horse with no Name.” Neither of them actually knows the song at all, but it only has like 3 chords in it, and the kid playing the guitar only knows about 3 chords. So there you are.

Doug and I bought a new pillow-top mattress recently. Or should I say “dog kennel”?

Lucky for us, the town fireworks are practically across the street from our house, just a short walk away. So we had folks over for an afternoon BBQ before heading over and making ourselves comfortable before the show began.

the Boston Society of Spontaneity was at it again today, with an Adventure of Mystery and  Danger and Stuff. While it was not my favorite event thus far, it was still fun, and I highly encourage all of you to join me next time.

Here’s Jeff, standing at the gateway to Chinatown, where we were directed to go, trying to decode a secret message on the ground, while listening to further instructions on his cell.