fish without faces

"Cattle are very fond of pumpkins; it is pleasant to see what a feast the honest creatures make of them in the barn-yard; they evidentl...

Conrad Gessner Historiae Animalium ( check it out ) 1551 also, for a fabulous little bestiary of creatures--mostly piscine--by Gess...

The Fizzgiggious Fish, who always walked about upon Stilts, because he had no legs. There was an old man in a tree,...

John White c. 1585

"The gnat chasers, which likewise serve other purposes, are called cucurios , and are winged worms, inoffensive, a little smaller than ...

"A certain cacique of the region, Caramatexius by name, was very fond of fishing. Upon one occasion a young fish of the gigantic specie...

In that hemisphere I saw things incompatible with the opinions of philosophers: a white rainbow was twice seen around midnight, not only by ...

Ptolemy and the other geographers believed that the world was spherical and that the other hemisphere was as round as the one in which they ...

I’m trying to come up with anything more American than walking into a Sears, buying a brand-new washer and dryer, and having them delivered ...

situated as I am in the western hemisphere, it was sure nice to see all the AP & Reuters photos of last week's eclipse posted on bo...

I first announced this last month and if it turns out to be even half as much fun* as t he deal last week with the suits , then you won...

for anyone who missed the important meeting this last Saturday, here are a few photos, beginning w/ everyone starting up on Wall Street: sum...

You need certain things for the marinade: Ginger root, olive oil, garlic, soy sauce, Coca-Cola. Giant plastic letters mounted to the concret...

OK, this will be a little shorter than the last couple years (just over 21 miles). as always, you can run it, walk, mountain bike, do a rela...

it's been a while since I can remember having worn a suit to anything. (Cate, maybe to your wedding a couple years ago.) but, for the la...

the desert thunderstorms have let up for a couple days and it's definitely summer. so I'm planning a couple runs for next month that...

I thought this little story from the Salt Lake Tribune might be of interest to some. from there it looks like it got picked up by the AP an...

pollen clouds blowing from the trees, like golden smoke or a solar wind. runoff flows over, and she still tries to unstop our flooding culve...

yard sale, Saturday. $4-5 hundred? haggling. rain. memorial day. Six-Mile canyon. orange peels (lichens). Elmer's glue. artist-in-reside...

last year maybe you heard about how these Czech scientists "recorded body alignment of cattle in satellite images provided by Google...