windhover heatshimmer
March 26, 2018
Monday, March 26th, 2018 • Floyd Bennett Field & SMNT, Brooklyn, NY
Kestrel hopping from Floyd Bennett Field to Salt Marsh Nature Trail. Saw that Kenny at Salt Marsh has a girlfriend now - and saw them perform coitus five times.
It wasn’t an incredibly hot day but the sun was shining down hard, creating heat shimmer low to the ground.
read moreNatural Questions
February 22, 2018The question comes up all the time: Would I trade my arms for wings1, if I could?
It’d be impossible to type this without arms, and especially the hands and fingers that accompany them. On the other hand, with (the right kind of) wings i’d have Flight - something I’m currently incapable of, and hard to truly imagine.
It’s a really tough question. The best answer I could come up with is that I’d like to keep my arms, but while developing the ability to manipulate the quanta of subatomic energies surrounding my body to overcome gravity and lift myself to any height and distance - within the reasonable limits of my own stamina.
I realize that’s cheating the question; it would be the best of both worlds. You can’t have your cake and eat it too2.
notes
1 This question has actually never come up.
2 This is false; I received a cake (the kind with a hole in the center) as a seasonal gift from Noho Productions. It was my cake, and I ate the whole thing one cold afternoon when I didn’t feel like going to the grocery store. It cost me nothing; it follows that there does exist such a thing as a free lunch3.
3edit: a follow up on free lunches from Seth’s blog. 03-22-2018
Koisuru Hakai
February 11, 2018
hi Kes
the internet loves a horizontal image - well, maybe mobile likes a vertical.
Kes was pretty active that day1. It was unseasonably warm and there hadn’t been snow on the ground now for a few. The grasshoppers and other insects were probably more present, and he was catchin em actively up and down the field. He barely noticed I was following him (I think) - at one point even being startled after landing on a branch within 10 feet of me, not realizing how long I’d been standing there.
1 January 21st, 2017
koisuru universe
ah-ah-ah-ah
I just realized that ‘Koisuru Hakai’ probably translates to ‘Loves Destruction’
Introducing Hyde
December 28, 2013Hyde is a brazen two-column Jekyll theme that pairs a prominent sidebar with uncomplicated content. It’s based on Poole, the Jekyll butler.
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