I'm really not complaining but....

unless someone ships me some snow, doesn't look like it's going to be a white Christmas at our house.  Dang.

1:58:00 PM     

Beginnings...

This is how long it's been since the day Scott and I first met (in person).  A cold, wintery New Hampshire day, but I've been warm ever since.  

via....Re-date.com

0 years, 11 months, 2 weeks, 1 days, 23 hours, 32 minutes and 0 seconds

11:32:00 AM     

The Windhover

I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird, - the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

--Gerard Manley Hopkins

10:48:12 AM     

Sacred Texts - an internet archive

10:38:44 AM     

Potter's Museum of Curiosity

"Anthropomorphic taxidermy caricature work was popularized in the Victorian era. One of the masters was Walter Potter, of Bramber, Sussex, who specialized in grand scaled, complex tableaux."  READ MORE about these "grotesque beauties".

Graphics intensive but well worth the wait!  via....Popdex.

10:21:40 AM     

Ebay scams galore

hether writes "Customers of the auction site eBay have been targeted by a site called ebayupdates.com. The site attempts to steal credit card details from eBay's 55 million customers. The SANS Institute Internet Storm Center issued the warning on this one. Info about the scam can be found on the BBC site, CNN, CNet, vnunet, and more. Funny enough there's no mention of this on the eBay site..."

8:46:10 AM     

I'm dreaming of....

6:10:50 AM