Cirsium discolor...

Cirsium discolor...  Complete with soldier beetles and a bumblebee.  I know from personal experience just how difficult it is to get a closeup like this.  Hats off to the photographer, Robert Klips!  Via BPOD, of course...

“Wil can fly!” update...

“Wil can fly!” update...  At this writing, the pledges total $7,942 – over the halfway mark and headed for two thirds.  They've got thirteen days to go.  If they keep getting pledges at the rate of the past few days, they're going to make it easily!

Road trip!

Road trip!  We made the trip down to Salt Lake City yesterday evening, to have dinner with our friends Doug & Dee W.  We ate at the Red Iguana, which is becoming a tradition for us much as the Fish Market used to be in San Diego.  Through a series of coincidences, we've actually been seeing Doug & Dee more often since we moved than we used to in San Diego :)

Great company, lots of entertaining stories (ask Dee about her dad, if you know her!), and delicious food.  As I told Doug last night, that's a hard combination to beat!

Weird sighting there (by Debbie): at a table near us, a young man was seated.  On his belt he wore a hanger that held a role of duct tape.  On his chair back was a sort of backpack, with lots of small spring clamps and clothes pins attached to it, along with a walkie-talkie, a pair of screwdrivers, a pair of pliers,  a ball of string, and a few other things we couldn't identify.  We couldn't figure out what that collection of stuff might be for, and I forgot to ask him on the way out, as I'd intended.  Any ideas?