2 weeks ago I went on a hike in the hills near home.  This was a few days before the big snowstorm that I chronicled in my last post, so while it was snowy, there were only a few inches of it on the ground.  That Sunday was otherwise sunny. I hiked a half-mile down … Read more

A blizzard hit us last night, and so we had a large amount of snow waiting to be shoveled in the morning.  3-5 inches were predicted to fall overnight, but it looked like 8 inches when I got up (before 6am).  It was still coming down quickly, too. Here’s the view of the back deck … Read more

A month ago I made my way to a small, one-day comic convention in New York: the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.  It’s a pretty new con – this was only its second year – but it attracted a great variety of talent. I drove part of the way there, but parked in Connecticut and … Read more

Quick post to mention an encounter I had shortly after Thanksgiving.  I was taking food scraps out to the compost pile late in the evening.  I often see various wildlife prowling around the yard and sometimes in or near the compost.  That night, as I approached the pile, I heard something scrambling through the leaves, … Read more