From the archives. Alligator lizard mating behavior. Looks kind of like my mating behavior actually.... They will run around like this for a while. Literally. Just saw a pair the other day but they had run away by the time I got back with a camera. you just have to be careful these days. Have sex in public and some dumbass with a camera will post it on the net.

My latest YouTube Video is on thinning apples, a timely subject. How I do it and stuff to think about. A viewer commented that timing of thinning affects whether the tree goes into alternate bearing or not. I think a lot of the reason my trees alternate bear probably has to do with growing conditions. Either way, I like to get most of the excess fruit off the tree early, then come back through and refine and remove further damaged and excess fruits over the next 2 or 3 weeks. I’ve evolved toward leaving an extra 15 to 20%, just because I’ve learned that I’m going to lose some more of it early and yet more as the season progresses. I was pulling bird pecked apples off the tree as early as the first week in June.

Each Soaproot flower is open for one night only, opening toward evening. In the morning it closes back up and secretes a gooey substance, probably to protect the now fertilized goods. I’ll bet that stuff has some medicinal properties. The flowers are delicate and beautiful, but go largely unnoticed due to their small size.

Who can name this frosty plant?

This is a picture I photoshopped for a satyrical news outlet I started some years back called “NUTRITIONALLY CORRECT NEWS”. The three articles I wrote are still out there on the net collecting dust. If you put that in quotes, you can find it with a search. Otherwise it’s hard to find. The mothball fleet.

Another dreamy rendering from Kodak slide projector lens.

Ceramic Cup by my homegirl @januaryoracle River rock motif.

John Olsen helping me with a tueyre he built for us out of raw, unprocessed river clay that Rabbit Stick Rendezvous over 20 years ago. He said sometimes if you can just slap together a pot and fire it hot without drying the clay first, it will survive firing. It did! I think he just wrapped some slabs of clay around a bundle of grass and fired it. A tueyere is just a tube that doesn’t burn, for forcing air into a forge or furnace. The project here was to smelt that pan of rich iron ore oxide into iron. We made one fatal error that probably made it not work . Too bad. it was fun though. This man is a highly skilled primitive potter, with an amazingly high pit firing survival rate.

Chuck telling a story

I grew this Tulip from seed. The parent was a parrot type. Photo taken with an old kodak slide projector lens. It has a soft romantic rendering with killer bokeh. Not all purpose lens, but a really cool art lens. I’m out to collect projector lenses now.

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