The 2013 Dresden Christmas Market. Guaranteed to make you cheerful no matter how cold it is.

dark evening at the Dresden Christmas Market with a lit up buildings, trees, the tops of sales shacks and a crowd of people

A ravenous Yellow Rumped Warbler visited our grapes again. Eat up, little bird!

a grey bird with yellow patches investigates a clump of dessicated grapes

My RaspberryShake detected the M6.4 earthquake in Ferndale, CA. Sounds like a lot of important infrastructure damage, like the main bridge into town is cracked and closed, but not injuries. I didn’t feel it. #RaspberryShake #earthquake

earthquake signal

Frankfurt International last June. I knew there’d be no shortage of 747s there but was still gobsmacked by their numbers.

A Lufthansa 747 at the gate and a 747 taxiing behind it. Mulitudes of intersecting contrails mark up the hazy blue sky

This Yellow Rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) is yet another bird feasting on our raisins. Yesterday’s Ruby Crowned Kinglet might actually be an Orange-crowned Warbler. No bars on its wings! 🤷‍♂️

yellow patched neck & chest, this warbler is looking for the perfect raisin on the ground.

Tried the first “Phat Tyre” ale I bottled. It’s good! The batch can use one more week to bottle condition.


Black Butte peak and Black Butte butte. Mostly greenstone/metabasalt at the snowy peak and basalt at the buttes around Black Butte Lake.

a distant snowy peak on the left and a vertical butte on the right. multiple power lines cross the view.

Ruby Crowned Kinglet (update on 12/17: more likely a Orange-crowned Warbler, as the Kinglet has bars on its wings, this one — the Warbler — does not). Such a lovely chirpy & frenetic bird.

yellowish bird perched atop a clump of raisinsa yellowish bird with a ruby color patch on its head, perched on a grape vine


Today’s moon.


Relatively rare morning where my car door was slightly stuck due to frost.


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