I don’t know what is going in over at social.lol / omg.lol and don’t care to, but I have picked up enough to confirm my opinion of people who choose silly names for (supposedly) serious products.

All weather forecasts should come with margins of error. E.g. 89± 5°F.

Morning flowers: Some kind of mallow, and bees enjoying the coneflowers (when I’m not in their way taking pictures).

Heard a chirp at my window ledge just now, looked up and saw that the feeder was empty and a house finch was sitting on the power line. I am fairly certain she was trying to get my attention, as there was nothing else around to chirp at, and as soon as I’d refilled the feeder and it stopped swinging she was back and munching away. I guess this means someone’s at least half domesticated, but I’m not sure who.

And here’s the green heron, inspired by walks along Crabtree Creek. The frame colors are meant to evoke the plumage: red undercoat for the breast feathers, dark blue-green for the wings. I enjoyed this carving!

That Miami has a professional hockey team is as good a symbol as any of the absurdity of 21st century global culture. If Miami Vice were made today, would they replace the jai alai in the opening credits with hockey? Go outside and play, boys.

Having spent much of the day experimenting with mixing colors of milk paint to evoke the feathers of a green heron, I am now going to make a blackberry cobbler. Futility is resistance.

New carvings available on the website.