the intricately hand-carved ivory tusks of a formerly living majestic mammal depicting a long dead asian empress and emperor when smaller humans are loudly whispering come here come here come here (and i kid you not one of those smaller humans JUST NOW hollered come here come here as i was typing those very words)
but i digress....
i'm thinking the enormous, majestic, _living_ mammal might have been proud to sport those amazingly carved tusks, if only someone had been nice enough to ask.
go see these tusks at the Texas Tech Museum. I promise it will be worth it.
I can't even find a photo online that does these two magnificently carved tusks an iota of justice.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Spiders have a Sense of Humor.....
clever spiders have a way of dissuading persistent paparazzi like me....
they jump on your camera lens to try to scare hell out of you!
the kids got a good laugh out of it anyway :)
click there to read about it...
this is what he was doing before i so rudely disturbed him...eating lunch....damn... he might be related to Brad Pitt...
get it? that's a paparazzi joke.... :) come on!
they jump on your camera lens to try to scare hell out of you!
the kids got a good laugh out of it anyway :)
click there to read about it...
this is what he was doing before i so rudely disturbed him...eating lunch....damn... he might be related to Brad Pitt...
get it? that's a paparazzi joke.... :) come on!
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
A Strange Little Dream
Last night I had this crazy dream… unlike any that I've ever had before…I read online a few weeks ago about the cicadas emerging this year and I just kind of glanced around some of the news articles… like the one that mentions that zoo animals are all excited because these cicadas taste so good and they're a beneficial addition to the animals' diets....
So anyway…. I haven't really had cicadas on my mind other than that, so the dream I had was kinda strange….well, here goes….
I was visiting my friend that lives at Ransom Canyon. His house has a back yard that starts out kind of flat and then climbs into the wall of the canyon at a steep slope…. It's not particularly landscaped intricately, but in my dream, as we're standing there in the back yard talking, a large cicada comes whirring by, all around our heads a couple of times, and lands on the ground near us, where there are three stump-like protrusions coming up from the ground, surrounded by a rocky planter. It seemed like the stumps looked like small trees or some sort of cactus that had been cut back…they were in a triangle pattern.
The cicada started going around and around in the dirt around one of the stumps. Pretty soon it had uprooted the stump at the top of the triangle. While it was doing it's little 'job', I remember feeling like the ground beneath my feet was shaking and vibrating heavily. A very odd, powerful feeling… like a jackhammer but less intense.
Suddenly, the stump rolled off the planter and fell out of sight. Then the cicada started whirring again in the center of the planter between the two remaining stumps, but this time it was digging straight down. I could still feel the ground vibrating. I looked at my friend and he started smiling and then I woke up. I felt like I could still feel the vibration in my feet and legs.
It was a very strange feeling.
That dream is puzzling me….. any ideas?
So anyway…. I haven't really had cicadas on my mind other than that, so the dream I had was kinda strange….well, here goes….
I was visiting my friend that lives at Ransom Canyon. His house has a back yard that starts out kind of flat and then climbs into the wall of the canyon at a steep slope…. It's not particularly landscaped intricately, but in my dream, as we're standing there in the back yard talking, a large cicada comes whirring by, all around our heads a couple of times, and lands on the ground near us, where there are three stump-like protrusions coming up from the ground, surrounded by a rocky planter. It seemed like the stumps looked like small trees or some sort of cactus that had been cut back…they were in a triangle pattern.
The cicada started going around and around in the dirt around one of the stumps. Pretty soon it had uprooted the stump at the top of the triangle. While it was doing it's little 'job', I remember feeling like the ground beneath my feet was shaking and vibrating heavily. A very odd, powerful feeling… like a jackhammer but less intense.
Suddenly, the stump rolled off the planter and fell out of sight. Then the cicada started whirring again in the center of the planter between the two remaining stumps, but this time it was digging straight down. I could still feel the ground vibrating. I looked at my friend and he started smiling and then I woke up. I felt like I could still feel the vibration in my feet and legs.
It was a very strange feeling.
That dream is puzzling me….. any ideas?