Want to meet that perfect mate? You need a cool pad like this.

BySkip@RR July 13, 2009January 31, 2014

It’s very cool, this lillypad. Location, location, location. That’s what they say.

You need a mate, you’ll have to wait.

But then don’t hesitate.

With thanks to the model, posed in our backstep waterworld.

A picture of a train in Redding

BySkip@RR February 5, 2011December 18, 2011

That is all. Where are the aerodynamic Freightliners of yore? These boxy diesel engines have the grace of any industrial machinery where form follows function, but they could use a little more style. As seen in our rail town one evening recently, it’s Really Redding.

Fun | Photography | Redding

Check out the smiling dragonfly.

BySkip@RR June 9, 2009

This winged orange critter took roost nearby to me yesterday. It appears to be smiling. I searched Dragonfly Symbolism on Google, and got 377,000 hits. This one’s appropriate: Living fossils, dragonflies are part of the most ancient group of insects on this planet. They were soaring through the air and lived on earth for a…

Fun | Music | Photography

Summer Schappell plays the Asphalt Cowboys BBQ

BySkip@RR September 17, 2009October 8, 2015

Summer Schappell is the granddaughter of my colleague Bill Schappel at the real estate brokerage I worked with in 2009. She’s an up and coming singer who has performed here and recorded in Nashville. She and her band gave a terrific performance for an appreciative audience and I took some photos. We were told that…

Photography

Blood moon in eclipse

BySkip@RR September 28, 2015

Went for a ride with some friends to check out the lunar eclipse last night.

Photography

Poetic wild bird eggs

BySkip@RR January 27, 2012

How curious is the nest: no other bird Uses such loose materials or weaves Its dwelling in such spots – dead oaken leaves Are placed without and velvet moss within And little scraps of grass and, scant and spare, What scarcely seem materials, down and hair. Snug lie her curious eggs in number five Of…

Fun | Photography

Escapee from Turtle Bay found hiding on our porch

BySkip@RR April 14, 2009

We ran across this hardened escapee from Turtle Bay. Perhaps Turtle Bay is like Pelican Bay, and escapees should be considered dangerous. We live along the Sulphur Creek watershed, so it was a clear path to freedom for the smelly escapee. Did I mention that it smelled bad? Don’t let that smiling face fool you.

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