Mount Tamalpais

Tom's mother Ginger is visiting us from Maine this week and she suggested we make an excursion to Mount Tamalpais on Saturday. It was very warm but the view was an ample reward for our efforts.

Did you ever notice that "flutter by" is a spoonerism of "butterfly"?

It appears that I am wearing shorts, but these are really pants rolled up to my thighs in heat-induced desperation.

So happy to be done climbing.

Surveying his territory.

My Father's Garden

My Father's Garden from Mirko Faienza on Vimeo.

Check out all the amazing things Mirko Faienza found in his father's garden.

Tagxedo

I read a rousing endorsement of Tagxedo on LifeHacker, and decided to try it myself. Since I didn't have anything in particular in mind to use as an example, I just put in the lyrics from The Ugly Bug Ball (because that song is stuck in my head so painfully frequently) and it generated the word cloud below. You can shape your word clouds into hearts, stars, rectangles, ovals and several other shapes including, sensibly, clouds. I hope you have a "ball" using it!

...I know. That was bad. I'm sorry. I'm groaning at myself.

I've got nobody to hug. I'm such an ugly bug.

Those worms at 1:09 kill me! I've never had that much fun dancing in my whole life... and I have two legs!