It's autumn, climb a tree.

I found a swell tree a few days back and couldn't help but have a retro-childhood moment. The tree was perfect for climbing and I stretched in ways I haven't in years (and perhaps shouldn't have, ouch). The tree was found in a park that I basically just stumbled into.


[ooh, water features]

[this maybe the biggest native american dreamcatcher ever, or just ornamentation]


[the pond was a nice place to sit and relax after a long day at work]

[the tree in question]

[first effort up a few branches... i can do better]

[now up another route a bit higher this time... now that's more like it]

[and looking back down onto that pond]

I would encourage you to find a tree to climb this fall, just stretch a little first.

Ruminate #3.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams

35,000 feet up.

On the way to Logan International for a trip to Providence, RI. Not a
bad start.

Can you say, "sommelier"?

I have a friend from grad school (well, she was an undergrad) that has recently gone to Paris to attend sommelier school. You can see some pretty interesting wine things (and probably non-wine things) on her new blog. Check it out: http://vieenrose.tumblr.com/

Name the hotel/casino, 2.

No hints this time.

Name the hotel/casino.

Anyone? Hint: it's new.

Ruminate on these.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
  - Doug Larson

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
  - Harlan Ellison