Eggs in a bowl

Marble eggs in a petrified wood bowl.

A clean desk is a happy desk!

Well, at least a happy ME...  This is the way I wish my desk always looked.  Hopefully, with all the cleaning, purging, and organizing I've been doing lately it'll look like this for at least a couple days...

Coffee beans

I really, really like coffee.  Here's the first coffee-related shot of the year (I'm sure there will be more...).

Max #2

Just a quick shot of Max tonight.  Snoozing away - his typical M.O.

4-H Ribbons

A little history about this photo:  I grew up in or outside small farming communities in northern Illinois most of my life, and a big thing in those areas was (is to this day, I suppose) 4-H.  There are 4-H clubs, and one of the big things is the 4-H Fair every summer where kids show livestock they've raised, vegetables they grew in a garden, crafts/drawings/paintings they made, etc.  Ribbons are awarded for the entries, and some kids then go on to compete in the State Fair.

I've been doing a lot of cleaning and organizing in the house the past few weeks, and I came across a box with all of my old 4-H ribbons in it - what a trip to see these again!

Oil and water

Tonight I tried to do another macro experiment with oil in water like the one I did last spring.  I'm not particularly thrilled with the results, but this'll have to do for tonight...

Firewood

It was (finally!) warm enough to venture outside - but only for as long as it took to shoot a few photos...

Gumballs

First Luis pic of the year

And what a handsome fellow he is, if I do say so myself!

What to do with so many bills?

Shred them!