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May 16, 2007

Minnesota Wildflowers

Garden_2007_001  My North woods garden is blooming with tulips, columbine, sage, and spearmint.









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Thump!

This robin has been waking us at 4:45 a.m.  by  thrashing himself against our bedroom window.





It's since been wiped down.




Garden_may2007_001 He did stand still for his closeup.












Sophies_bat_mitzvah_may_2007_008As promised, here is a picture  from the Bat Mitzvah.  It depicts three generations.  I'm sitting across from my sis-in-law and my Mom, Barbara.   You probably recognize the others.







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  This pretty wildflower is growing near my house in a natural bed of moss. 


















  Salon  featured a book review of  "Where's My Jetpack?  A Guide To the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived" by Daniel A Wilson Phd.  You can read the review, the rebuttal, and the discussion here in Salon.

Back to the future  Science fiction promised us a tomorrowland of jetpacks, Smell-O-Vision and male mammary implants. So what happened?

 

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