Gone Feral In Idaho

Photo courtesy the Smithsonian This photo doesn't look like much. As an archaeologist I understand its profound meaning. I'm used to walking the earth looking for abnormalities, things not made by nature, but by humans manipulating their environment for their survival, livelihood, and entertainment. My eye is trained to catch patterns that don't usually occur naturally, I can spot a (likely) human shaped stone from all the other random naturally shaped ones that scatter the ground as I walk. This photo is from 1978 and was taken from the air as a plane traversed Siberia with a geological expedition in the vast remote wilderness. They were looking for a place to land. Those lines look like a fingerprint to me. Those patterns stood out to the pilots who were astounded to see what looked like human agriculture. In the middle of nowhere, Siberia. What they found was pretty amazing, and to me pretty sad. To me the younger children in the story were raised ...

We had some fun in the snow today. MINI needs a bath.

This was the first song I listened to on the awesome stereo in my Mini. Yes I made a mix tape for the drive home. An old friend recommended the song to me.

This is my new to me Mini. I'm in love.

Here is a photo of the car similar to what I'm getting this weekend. I'm moving on and it is FUN! We never found the people that hit my Subaru, but Karma is a bitch. MINI Squee!

http://www.facebook.com/FindTheDriver http://www.facebook.com/FindTheDriver Please check out the link. My car got wrecked last night. I'd appreciate it if you'd share. Thanks a bunch.

we are now in my second least favorite season Boise has. number 1 is wildfire season that happens in late summer. my second least favorite is inversion season that happens in winter. it is continually smoggy with clear skies above that look grey from all the particulate stuck in the bubble that has settled over town.  the highs never get above freezing and the lows dip to the single digits. nonetheless, our little family bundled up for a walk on the green belt. Sadie was on to something here. She dug and dug for some varmint. Yep that's what we call little animals here.  These are rare mustache hair formations. Snow with a hoar frost the river had some thin ice with some neat frost balls on it more frost formations on snow Usually the geese are pooping all over creation, but they still look great in flight Splash at the white water park (with real white water) this mister froze when Sadie saw him, he was eyeing a lady duck ...

Snownose  The icicles are really growing  The ones hanging off the lights are near dangerous I took the new Sigma out for a few more shots. For what I'll be doing it'll be a great lens for me. These were some quick shots near sunset. I actually ventured out the doorway for these. 

Sigma 17-50mm 2.8 lens, second shot out of the box. Nothing worth writing home about but more photos with this lens will follow. Now Emily and I need to take our new cameras out for a stroll one of these days the weather cooperates. I was tired from hot yoga class so I shot from inside the doorway.

We braved the cold again today, this time in 19 degree Fahrenheit cold to visit the Idaho Botanical Garden.

Taken at the Morrison Knudsen Nature Center in Boise