OnMyMind

The large stone wall that fronts our house is home to many things. Today, our first passion flower of the season opened up. The buds have been threatening to pop open for a few days, so we have been waiting patiently.
I was intending to wait a few days for more of them to appear […]

These are some old photos that just made it to the scanner the other night. They are from my Kayak Club’s Shinnenkai, New Year Meeting, where we paddle out into the mouth of the river to feed the seagulls.
2002

2003

Last year it rained, this year it was too windy to get in the kayaks, but we […]

As I sat here writing my last post, I got the feeling that I was being watched. I looked over my left shoulder, and saw a figure in the window to the side of the house. He either didn’t realize that I had spotted him, or did not care, as he made not attempt to […]

Parakeet on peppers.

Just a photo of our bird Nick hanging out on one of his favorite perches.

We went to the local children’s museum today with some friends to see the new light exhibit. The theme was supposedly ‘Light”, but if it wasn’t posted as such, I probably wouldn’t have guessed it. As it is a “Children’s Museum”, I guess that I really should not have expected too much and keep in […]

I was pleased to wake up the other day, and find that I had received a nice write up on bastish.net. His post speaks with the voice of a city dweller longing for the country, but not able to give up the comfort of civilization just yet. As I read further into his site, I […]

I picked up this link through a mailing list, and I have found it quite interesting. It is the site of Alfie Kohn, an educational researcher who tends to ask some rather interesting questions. After skimming through his site, including the interesting article Five Reasons to Stop Saying “Good Job!”, I decided to order this […]