This is why I will never be able to make a living from crime. I once got distracted for nearly half an hour reading months-old obituaries when I was supposed to be laying the newspapers down for sheet composting.

One supposes they grow beans?

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.

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.

A scene from the garden, more or less

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…