Ocean

Trivial points are exactly what a Saturday needs. Interspersed with Market color. 1. A visitor who had not been to Madison for a number o...

The NYTimes has an article today ( here ) about the expansion of high speed internet access. Yes, its availability is expected now in hotels...

Paris now, before Wi-Fi 

Sometimes when I post something here, I cannot wait to post again, just so that the previous post does not stand out with its atrociously...

prairie flowers and grasses (and bugs) 

only in nature does this pairing of colors work 

happy looking Susans 

BoringAng is blogging about Christmas imagery and JeremyF is linking to Christian websites that warn against associating with atheists (mi...

Occasionally, in a moment of musing about your past, you google a memory. Indeed, this is what must have happened, as I got the most remarka...

I opened the New Yorker this afternoon to the following ad from a credit card company: (nc: poor Glenna -- she takes the plunge and then ...

Last night I attended a blogger dinner: five bloggers (representing Boring , Bed , SirEP and Ocean) sat face to face and talked about the t...

closing down Barnes & Noble 

In late winter, I would post spring updates here, pulling photos off the web to illustrate where my garden was heading. Then I stopped. Ther...

they climb like mad 

fiesta rose 

lemon-green daylily 

unkempt flower pots 

orchid? no, daylily 

Some of the reasons: 1. working out in 98 degree heat was so…toasty. 2. my “all you can yoga in a week for $14” deal ran out. 3. becaus...

Over the years, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists have left their home countries to travel to places where labs are well funded and opportu...