overnight precip.

I got up this morning, and the view had changed... tis that time of year I suppose.

Robert & Laurie - Who knew?

A 23 year old picture:

Waving to the camera, or requesting permission to share her thoughts?

...you decide...

Not only would these two end up in law school, but what's up with the shirt?

... go figure...

Earth Science

I am routinely impressed with the efforts to problem solve in our scientific community. It isn't surprising that these folks are out poking around in the rain-forest, but the kind of stuff they discover, this from the San Jose Mercury News today...

Q U O T E D

"The answer to that is, what if we pushed ourselves back about a hundred and fifty years and you heard a story about a guy finding gold out in California?"

-- Montana State University researcher Gary Strobel explains why he's not revealing the exact location of a tree fungus he discovered in the Patagonian rainforest -- a fungus that turns plant matter into gaseous hydrocarbons that are chemically almost identical to diesel fuel.