7-31-2011

I spent my whole day on this street, then ate pizza that comes with honey. My day was really a lot more eventful than my pictures look.

7-30-2011

We ran a race at the zoo. It was fast and really hot. I asked a cheetah to make me faster. After running, we walked even more in the even hotter and looked at animals. These are my favorites.

This giraffe likes to eat.
Nicole got to feed it a leaf.
She probably wishes she could feed this little cat a mouse.
This little cat probably wishes it could eat a baby.
This (kind of?) cat has a hamster wheel.
This is a rare and exotic bird.
I like turtles.
I have no idea what these two were doing though.
This one is old.
This is the vegetarian fish that learned how to eat people on Monster Quest.
That would be weird if butterflies learned to eat people.
This one is looking at you.
This guy reminds me of Sea World.
This bear shakes like a dog.
This bear cub has a bath tub (that rhymes).
The bear cubs were my favorite thing at the zoo.
It's pretty rare to see this bear with its eyes open.
We made commercials for these guys at work.
Bye.

7-29-2011

I'm moving. Unfortunately, I'm not taking my talents to South Beach, but rather moving around the corner and down the hall to a new office with a window for my toys to look out of! I even have a giant piece of paper for a coloring wall (even though I'm too intimidated to draw anything on it yet). This is all very exciting for me, which I'm sure you know if you read about my closet office (which is now going to be returned to its intended use of storage) last week. So after almost three years in my little orange closet (1-4-10), this is where I'll be every weekday for the next who knows how long. I'm going to go look outside now. Bye.

7-28-2011

Nicole likes berries like I like tacos. These all grew in our yard this year. This red one came from a plant my friend Victor gave us when we first got the house, and we've managed not to kill it after all these years (the plant not the house). The black ones randomly started growing in our yard this year and are now declared as protected nature preserve from the lawn mower.

7-27-2011

Ok, so I realize I've been posting a lot of pictures of creepy little bugs, but my pepper plants just introduce me to a lot of weird looking stuff that I think is interesting. And really, this isn't that weird. Remember all those lady bugs doin' it on my plants on 6-22-11? Well I guess it worked, because their eggs hatched, and now I have lady bug larvae on my plants! This is a good thing because they eat tons of aphids (aphids are bad for my peppers). I think it's cool watching entire life cycles happen on the leaves of my plants over time. After larvae hatch from eggs, they'll run around and eat a ton of aphids, then make a little pupa shell. Then the pupa hatches as a full adult lady bug to start the cycle all over again.

7-26-2011

With all the running and trying to be healthy that we've been doing, it seems like forever since I drank super fancy grandpa scotch. Meeting up with a friend is always a great excuse to visit a new place that I've been meaning to check out. Especially since said place happens to have a whole wall of whisky. This is exciting. Also exciting was finding crazy orb-weaver spider webs. The one above is pretty perfect compared to this crazy one. Maybe this spider catches more bugs, but it probably just drank too much scotch before making its web.

These new glowing shoes will undoubtedly make Nicole faster...which will help this weekend.

7-25-2011

So yeah, I post a lot of pictures of food. What can I say? I tend to take pictures of things that I like, and there aren't many things that I like doing more than eating. Besides, these are kind of special. They're truffled fried yucca from a (not bougie) chain restaurant. That makes them special because 1) I'm hoping that truffle oil is going to become a trend ingredient in lots of places everywhere, and 2) this is preparation for the real truffle I'm planning on eating on vacation! It's still forever away, but I'm already getting really ready to go go go.

7-24-2011

Look, I have a new girlfriend with black hair. We tried to go walk in a park we've never been to before, but she got attacked by bugs and ran away. Otherwise, I've been doing a really poor job of taking pictures of the stuff we do. I did attempt to buy more running stuff, but got scared of these diesel mannequins and ran away. We do other stuff too, but recently we've been mostly just been doing a lot of running. I don't take pictures of running. I do however take pictures of indulgent, post-run Cheeseburger Tour at B Spot. I don't think anything in the world ever taste better than heart attack food immediately after running six miles. Heart attack food includes onion rings fried in lard with some of the best sauce ever. It also includes White Russian Rootbeer Floats (with snaky rings) named after Coen brothers' movies.

7-23-2011

We went a lot of places and did a lot of stuff today. I just shot a few things that I though should be black and white.

7-22-2011

I'm no spider expert, but the internet tells me that this is a "Daring Jumping Spider." The internet also tells me that they don't make webs, but use their spinnerets to make a little bungee cord for when they jump off of things. Even more interesting, I read that they can be taught to remember different colors, and are "curious" because they're known to look right at you if you pay attention to them.

Far less interesting, here's a sad broken bird egg.

7-21-2011

It's a million degrees outside, and Nicole is really serious about going to dinner tonight. Since it's so hot, we decided to go for a walk instead of even attempting to run and die of heatstroke. Our walks pretty much consist of acting like 8 year olds that snuck out of the house past bedtime. I chased lightning bugs and trapped one in my shirt. Nicole captured a really big toad (who in turn peed on her hand as punishment). We brought our new pets home so we could make them walk around on two legs like a little person, and to take serious portraits of them. This is the toad making the same face as Nicole's picture from dinner. Look how big this toad is. I tried my very best (for hours) to get a picture of the firefly's light, but this is the best I could get.

7-20-2011

Is your passport ready? Because Nicole and I just booked plane tickets. That's right everyone, we're going to Detroit! I don't think I've ever heard my credit card literally weep before. Actually, I'm sure I did the last time I bought a lens for my camera. Speaking of camera lenses, I put on my arty lens and took some artsy pictures like this today.

7-19-2011

So I've posted before about how the trail runs I go on are really really pretty, but obviously I don't run with my giant, Asian tourist sized camera strapped to my back. I really wish I could though, because this is the second time I've seen an owl in the woods, but only had a cellphone. Yeah, that dark blob in the center of the frame is a huge, awesome owl that actually flew right in front of us across the path. So instead of a sweet owl face, you get to see my peppers. It's kind of interesting how my two habanero plants are growing drastically different colored peppers though.

7-18-2011

Nicole's snake, SnakeSnake has a fancy new house.