Reflections in that rain puddle

Will be offline until Monday. Out of...

Jan 29th

“Question” prepared with Gimp.

Jan 29th

Plants am is a wiki encyclopedia for plants and gardens with...

Jan 29th

Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars and Venus stories are a...

Jan 29th

Kindo is a free webapp for building family trees. Simple and...

Jan 29th

An “Eye for color” created in a beta version of...

Jan 29th

Adventure in the South-Central Spiral...

Flynn, Michael ~ The January Dancer ~ TOR, 2008 ~ 350 pages ~ Adults. “Everything in the...

Jan 28th

If you find anything useful or attractive on this blog,...

Jan 28th

“Strange worlds” is a flame fractal image...

Jan 28th

The Library of Congress has a vast array of primary source...

Jan 28th

New web search engines pop up surprisingly often. You may...

Jan 28th

Because the house usually feels cold to me [I tend not to be...

Jan 27th

Especially in the winter, when it is so gray, cold, and...

Jan 27th

“Sunset flames” is a bit cluttered, but I like...

Jan 27th

Those interested in a quick, simple but somewhat limited...

Jan 27th

NASA’s year in Review 2008 [NASA’s Top Science,...

Jan 27th

“Witchwood was created in Elements.

Jan 26th

“Lost music” created in Elements.

Jan 26th

Apps that generate mosaics from many tiny individual images...

Jan 26th

The beginning of a new year provides an opportunity for...

Jan 26th

“Smudge stick” created in Elements.

Jan 25th

“Red flower” created with Quadrium 2.

Jan 25th

Napoleon in Egypt has fascinated me for some time. Not the...

Jan 25th

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum hosts an appealing,...

Jan 25th

“Surf boards” created in Quadrium.

Jan 24th

Treasures of the New York Public Library video series are...

Jan 24th

Exploratree is a website containing a variety of templates...

Jan 24th

Comment

I’ve been reading SF and heroic fantasy since my tween years and tend to read quickly. For...

Jan 24th

Koch Snowflake created in Xaos. Just the thing for winter...

Jan 23rd

“VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and...

Jan 23rd

“Plants.am is a complete plant and garden wiki...

Jan 23rd

Those interested in a broad overview, but with some good...

Jan 23rd

“Hidden forest” created in elements.

Jan 23rd

Sometimes, but not often, tiled wallpaper is needed. Here is...

Jan 22nd

The Printable Paper website will be useful if you need to...

Jan 22nd

In case you missed it, here is the summary for the National...

Jan 22nd

Snow seems to last longer on dense shrubs like these yews.

Jan 21st

While the additional snow forecast for East Tennessee failed...

Jan 21st

“Crayons” is an image created in DT4 and tweeked...

Jan 21st

Science Fiction Cover Art is another website article, here...

Jan 21st

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosts an attractive...

Jan 21st

“Dijin’s cave” created in Elements.

Jan 20th

If you would like to read other Inaugural addresses,...

Jan 20th

In case you missed the news, the redesigned Whitehouse...

Jan 20th

One more MLK day snow image [2.00 p.m.].

Jan 19th

Here is an image that looks much more snowy.

Jan 19th

MLK day is cloudy with snow showers. While I doubt that we...

Jan 19th

“Tree carpet” created in Elements.

Jan 19th

“Thoughts of summer” created in Elements.

Jan 19th

With the growing interest in health/wellness issues and...

Jan 19th

The Pew Center on the States has initiated a States Trend...

Jan 19th

“Rain flowers” created in Elements.

Jan 18th

TagCrowd allows you to input text of your choice, here a...

Jan 18th

Track This Now is a news website that allows you to...

Jan 18th

The ice in the bird bath is finally beginning to melt....

Jan 17th

Slight warming trend.

It was nearly 20 degrees when I fed the cats this morning. Bright and sunny, but still cold. Still,...

Jan 17th

“Swirls” created in Elements.

Jan 17th

Uncoverr is a website devoted on web design. It includes...

Jan 17th

MakeUseOf.com provides a helpful list of websites containing...

Jan 17th

“Sea flowers” created in Elements.

Jan 16th

Zeer [Better Groceries] provides opportunities for users and...

Jan 16th

“Wurm” created in Elements.

Jan 16th

Freebiesdock. com is a website devoted to providing access...

Jan 16th

“Dark colors” is a filtered fractal.

Jan 15th

Fizy allows you to search for a particular song from a...

Jan 15th

“Curvy” is simple wallpaper created in Gimp.

Jan 15th

Big Hugh Labs provides another web app website that allows...

Jan 15th

Deltora Quest [eight-in-one collection]

Rodda, Emily ~ Deltora Quest ~ Scholastic, 2008 ~ 731 pages ~ older children, tweens, teens, some...

Jan 14th

One of the delights of the Internet is the overwhelming...

Jan 14th

“Breaking Waves” created in Elements.

Jan 14th

The Federal Reserve has created a Financial Crisis timeline...

Jan 14th

“Early Advertising of the West” is an intriguing...

Jan 14th

“Royal road” created in Elements.

Jan 13th

I suspect that we rarely consider the history of the food...

Jan 13th

Jacob Epstein has long been a keen analyst of contemporary...

Jan 13th

Edd Cartier, the well-known and well-regarded SF and fantasy...

Jan 13th

“Dreams of summer” created in Elements.

Jan 13th

Comment

Noted on the Internet this morning that Borders stock is now at about 58 cents per share, that the...

Jan 12th

We’ve seen little sun in the past weeks. Mostly...

Jan 12th

Digg Graphr provides a graphic, colorful representation of...

Jan 12th

“Sea flowers” created in Elements.

Jan 12th

Color Palette Generator is a web-based application that...

Jan 12th

A variation on the sea shell image seen below. Created in...

Jan 11th

“Oil on pavement” created in Elements.

Jan 11th

Broken Government by the Center for Public Integrity is a...

Jan 11th

Cover art plays a pivotal role in the book marketing...

Jan 11th

“Steps to the stars” was created in Gimp.

Jan 10th

“Sea snail” was created in Elements. The snail...

Jan 10th

Worio Search is another relatively new search engine that...

Jan 10th

Salon.com has a very nice article on the 100th anniversary...

Jan 10th

“Tired leaves.”

Jan 9th

I remain intriguing by how easy it is to create colorful...

Jan 9th

I’ve long had a casual interest in meditation and...

Jan 9th

Although the sun has appeared today, our recent weather has...

Jan 8th

The Master Gardener is in the process of adding a fourth cat...

Jan 8th

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art provides access to images...

Jan 8th

Pirates and Space Ships that are Really...

Reeve, Philip ~ Larklight ~ Bloomsbury, 2006 ~ 400 pages ~ older children, tweens, teens, some...

Jan 7th

“Strange forest” created in Elements.

Jan 7th

Here is a screen shot for the University of Tennessee,...

Jan 7th

UCrime is a website that aggregates crime data for colleges...

Jan 7th

Mostly gloomy weather in East Tennessee. Nine inches of rain...

Jan 7th

This is the time of the year when there are many year in...

Jan 6th

“Thinking under water” created in Elements.

Jan 6th

Diplodocs is a website focused on providing access to user...

Jan 6th

Grumble

I certainly understand that university athletic programs represent a business rather than an...

Jan 5th

“Bulls-eye” created with Elements.

Jan 5th

There are an amazing number of solid, helpful, and...

Jan 5th

In case you missed it, the Census Bureau has announced that...

Jan 4th

“Alien Cockpit” created in Groboto and filtered...

Jan 4th

Conan has been an iconic character and author Howard has...

Jan 4th

The TVA Ash Pool incident has received national interest....

Jan 3rd

Dark Heroic Fantasy

Hambly, Barbara ~ Icefalcon’s Quest ~ Del Rey, 1998 ~ 307 pages ~ adults. “Had the...

Jan 3rd

“Elegant Oriental” was created in Artmatic Pro...

Jan 3rd

Grumble

Although I’m certainly not a well-informed sports enthusiast, I have watched a fair number of...

Jan 2nd

Although my knowledge of geography is limited, I’ve...

Jan 2nd

The Master Gardener is busily collecting and storing...

Jan 2nd