One supposes they grow beans?

Sign for Windy Bottoms Farm

Designs for this year’s Christmas ornaments. Clockwise from upper left: hope, love, joy, and peace.

Today’s listen: Haven by Apollo5.

“Surprisingly, if you allow a base to be any real number, and not just an integer, then the most efficient computational base is the irrational number e.” “How Base 3 Computing Beats Binary”

New on The Road to Jockey’s Ridge: gems, flotsam, observations and coincidence from half a year’s walking in which I have not managed to write anything until now.

small warty cream-colored mushroom by a downed branch of a tree in the woods

Pro tip for making breakfast: Do not, in your coffee-still-a-slurping-in-the-machine early morning blear, mistake the plastic bin of dog kibble in the fridge for blueberries and put them on your oatmeal. I had a near miss. Be careful out there.

Cantharellus minor, small chanterelles, in the very damp woods Tuesday morning.

yellow chanterelles

A scene from the garden, more or less

chip carving of three birds with intertwining flowers, teal-blue framed carved with woven triangles

As I listen for the whistle, lie awake and wait
Wish the railroad didn’t run so near
‘Cause the rattle and the clatter of that old fast freight
Keeps a-makin’ music in my ear.
Go bum again…

abandoned railroad tracks, disappearing into the weeds

Imagine that you are Dante, and Virgil points out to you a group of web developers who in life wrote code that hijacked users’ back buttons to redirect them to sports-betting sites. In which circle of hell do they reside, and what is their eternal punishment?