David Baer @david@arktos.social

Can't decide whether this is a Russian troll pretending to be an African American Schultz supporter, or a satirist pretending to be a Russian troll pretending to be... you get the idea.

scripture, silliness

I know it's a lot worse in the Midwest, but 0ºF/-18ºC is an all time low for our house.

A happy convergence of weather conditions left us with a small frozen pond in our yard last week. The kids took advantage, and made it their skating rink. (This stone, fortunately, was on the edge.)

From my 4th grader's math homework. Parents tend to trash current math teaching methods, but showing how multiplication works through "partitioning rectangles" is pretty nifty. All I remember is lining up numbers in columns and following computational rules.

This never gets old.

Spotted on our Christmas tree

Time to make the cranberry sauce!

Oh that's just super...

Red tail hawk overlooking our house

So, touching is ok?

Who, indeed?

Fall is here. The first frost was this week, but life (and color) hangs on in the garden.

It's been a wet summer. The fungus is going crazy here.

Not everything has to be pumpkin spice flavored, people!

These feathers appear to be the remnants of a male northern flicker woodpecker.

The Ramapo River

The dog, on a late summer walk

For some reason, I haven't been persuaded to buy this.