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Morning Glow

Clouds radiated a fiery-orange glow as the morning dawned, a spectacular show that seemed to amaze even the thin, crescent moon. Can you find it? #sunrise #fieryorange #crescentmoon

No, it wasn’t the Little Red Hen, but rather, a resourceful Fairy that produced these loaves. While we could just buy bread, nothing matches the aroma, feel, and taste of warm, freshly-baked bread; it’s part of our heritage. We both grew up on midwestern farms, and what we lacked in dollars, we made up forContinue reading “A Fine, Peasant Pleasure”

“HI”

Spray painted symbols and letters have appeared throughout the neighborhood ahead of the installation of the new fiberoptic cables. My favorite is this “HI” on a sidewalk that we travel most days of the week. While it has something to do with the installation of new infrastructure, I prefer to think it as a cheeryContinue reading ““HI””

Spider Sky

The morning crescent moon grinned down from the sky while a banana spider seemed suspended overhead in its invisible web, and we hoped it would not pounce upon us as we passed under. Of course, it is supposed to be more afraid of us than we are of it, but that was of little comfortContinue reading “Spider Sky”

Dropout

I had been tinkering in the front yard yesterday about an hour before this branch dropped out of the tree. I’m glad it waited. #dropout #treebranch #fallen

Beam Me Anywhere, Scotty

White pickups from Texas and young men in work clothes have appeared in our neighborhood, painting symbols on the pavement, orange streaks across all the lawns, and hurling bright, orange flags into the ground with great precision. Before long, there will be “excavation” for fiber-optic cables that we will soon be using for internet accessContinue reading “Beam Me Anywhere, Scotty”

Tufted Tiff

The tufted titmouse in the upper center of the top photo had just taken off from the right side of the feeder only to land immediately on the opposite side and crowd out the titmouse with the seed in its beak. That was too much for the latter which took to flight as seen inContinue reading “Tufted Tiff”

Ghost Story

While pulling some weeds in the yard, I came across this insect “ghost,” or exoskeleton as they are more commonly called, that had been shed from a cicada. When a nymph (the immature form of a cicada, not the mythical creature) reaches full size, it sheds its shell to emerge as an adult and leavesContinue reading “Ghost Story”

Off-road Airplane

As mentioned in yesterday’s post at https://eskildoodle.com/2026/08/03/tipi-rings/, I spent a lot of time in the 1970’s and 1980’s flying around in this Piper Clipper airplane. It cruised over plains, explored deserts, and surfed wind currents over the mountains, frequently landing on anything but an established airport. Memories of those great adventures remain vivid to thisContinue reading “Off-road Airplane”

Tipi Rings

While living in southwestern Wyoming in the 1980’s I spent a lot of time exploring the area in my Piper Clipper airplane. It was a cousin to the Piper Cub, and I liked to refer to it as my “off-road airplane.” While skimming over the badlands southwest of Green River, I saw these “tipi rings,”Continue reading “Tipi Rings”