water walk

In Hamburg, Germany... Notice the rope anchoring the balls. :)

test answer

Fun Peanuts comic strip...

chalk art

How our numbers got their shapes?

Lego, Lord of the Rings

Click here: Lord of the Rings

talk to the hand

Mount Vernon bridge, down.

This is quite a photo of the I-5 bridge that fell into a river last night, isn't it?

Mouthy puncts!

another hair thing

She has lighter hair than an albino!

eye color

Click on this picture to make it bigger. Can you imagine how much practice it takes to get this good with colored pencils?

ain't nothin' going to way me up

Disney artist secrets

So cool!

Moses, cheater?

underwater rainbow

Easter-henge

Finally, proof that a giant rock creature lives inside the Earth!

Star people cyclopes?

By the way, did you know that the plural of cyclops is cyclopes?
It's pronounced: sigh KLOH peas.

A mom and her 3 boys decide to take the same photo 20 years later, for their father's birthday present. Notice how they have pretty much the same expressions, posture and clothes! :)

thunderstorm

Click here to see an amazing photo of a... Montana thunderstorm.

Iron, man!

Hundertwasser

Try to pronounce this name: Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Quite a name!
Mr. Hundertwasser died in the year 2000. He was from Austria (a country south of Germany), and he designed real buildings that look a lot like Dr. Seuss creations.

beech trees

Beech trees in Northern Ireland.

big un, little un

lemon the force be with you

baby dolphin

What could be cooler?

Selma Lagerlof

One of the unexpected perks of working at a bookstore: yesterday I met the great grand-niece of Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature and a very famous person in Sweden's history. She came into the store to order a Selma Lagerlof book for a friend who was traveling to Sweden, and she was surprised that I knew the author and had read several of her books. She says she'll try and come in when I work some night and show me letters that the author wrote to some of her family in America. Wow!

right of way

chandelier

A twisty chandelier that makes tree branch shadows.

face flower

Phyllodes Imperialis

Here's a funny looking guy. When he's "all grown up" he becomes the Imperial Fruit Sucking Moth, found in Australia and other parts of Oceania (Oceania is the region of the world around Australia--that part of the Pacific Ocean and its smaller lands and islands).

Waiting for Birth Day

That picture I drew for you a couple months back. I still really like this. :)

camel spiders

If you want to creep yourself out just a little and see a soldier holding a pair of "camel spiders" in Iraq, click here!

Unbelievable!

apple. sad.

A very short, very sad story about an apple.

Henri le chat noir

This cat has a very popular book now, but it all started with the website. Very silly... a cat with a very gloomy outlook on life! Click here to see the website and its videos:
Henri le chat noir

rock collection, or sculpture?

Ascension

Today is 40 days since Easter, and so we celebrate Christ's Ascension. Hallelujah!

Puppy pile!

Perry Mason, as you've never seen him

This is Raymond Burr, the Perry Mason actor, on an old TV talk show. The host of this show wanted to get a serious actor to try--just try!--to be a little silly.

"The Power of the Cross"

What an awesome hymn!

Haha!

turtle

Click here for a... Tiny Turtle!

Easter 2011

Did you know you wore the same Easter dress on 2 Easters, 2 years apart? Yup, this you in 2011.

Some graffiti painter went a little crazy here. This is a war monument with statues of some soldiers. Now they're painted as superheroes and Santa and...?

Moshi Monsters

This is kind of fun. Have you played this game...? Click here: Moshi Monsters

light paintings

This artist does Light Painting. He places colored pieces of glass around electric lights, which then cast colored streaks on the wall around them. Click here to see more of this: Light Painting

Boo!

A howler monkey statue from a zoo in Florida!

Albania is a country just north of Greece and across the water from Italy (the heel of Italy's "boot" kind of points at it). And in Albania there is a mosaic artist named Saimir Strati. Look at these amazing mosaics he's made from nails, toothpicks, wine corks, and paintbrushes... click here: Saimir Strati

This is Doug TenNapel, creator of the graphic novel Cardboard. He's working on a stop-motion video game (like claymation). He created this yellow creature for something, but that didn't work out so he's cutting it up for some new use in the video game! Is this a weird picture or what?

the wrong tiny cat

For a good example of why you can't believe everything you see on the Internet, click here: Is this a photo of the World's Smallest Cat?

Here's my old, old blog about you. What fun to look back at it!
Click here: I can't want it!

Happy May Day, Naomi! Your sorta-fancy gift is this new blog.
Love you, Papa

Penmen

What do you think of this?

Koala