Category Archives: Outdoors

This year we went to the Nature Center. They had hors d’oeuvres and sweets for the sweet. The goat cheese-stuffed dates were particularly delicious. After we ate, we got to meet Cornflake the corn snake, as well as some beetles … Continue reading →

Let the squirrels carve your Halloween pumpkin. The cat will enjoy it, too:

We went to the park today to feed the ducks. There were baby ducks, too. Including this very little baby which kept wandering away from its parents. For some reason, everybody called it “Conrad”. I don’t know why.

A special day today – we were invited to three birthday parties! The first was the saka dawa celebration at the Buddhist Compassion Center.  Saka dawa commemorates the Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death.   This was a rather somber affair … Continue reading →

We took GC1 & GC2 out into the backyard this evening as night fell.  There were lots of fireflies to try and catch, and soon (probably attracted by the fireflies) several bats appeared and swooped among us.  A bunny rabbit … Continue reading →

I don’t know what caused it, but it was 27° (81° F) here yesterday afternoon and this morning it snowed.

Today we went to the Aviation Heritage Festival at our neighborhood airport, Bowman Field.  As I have mentioned before, it’s a historic airport (hence the “Heritage” part of the title, I guess); the oldest continuously operating airport in the U.S.  … Continue reading →

They’re here:

That’s the George Rogers Clark Memorial bridge in the foreground.  It opened in 1929 as the Louisville Municipal Bridge, and renamed in honor of Gen. Geo. R. Clark in 1949. The bridge is featured in the Bill Murray movie “Stripes” … Continue reading →