Water Lily

Norm !!

SAM: "What's new, Normie?"

NORM: "Terrorists, Sam. They've taken over my stomach & they're demanding beer."

SAM: "What'd you like, Normie?"

NORM: "A reason to live. Give me another beer."

SAM: "What'll you have Normie?"

NORM: "Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy. I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of that tap."

SAM: "Looks like beer, Norm."

NORM: "Call me Mister Lucky."

WOODY: "What's the story, Mr. Peterson?"

NORM: "The Bobbsey twins go to the brewery. Let's cut to the happy ending."

WOODY: "Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you."

NORM: "I know. If she calls, I'm not here."

SAM: "Beer, Norm?"

NORM: "Have I gotten that predictable? Good."

SAM: "What's going down, Normie?"

NORM: "My butt cheeks on that bar stool."

SAM: "What's the story, Norm?"

NORM: "Boy meets beer. Boy drinks beer. Boy meets another beer."

WOODY: "What's going on, Mr. Peterson?"

NORM: "The question is what's going in Mr. Peterson? A beer please, Woody."

WOODY: "Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?"

NORM: "A little early isn't it, Woody?"

WOODY: "For a beer?"

NORM: "No, for stupid questions."

Bottle by iPad

Sidwell's "Girl at Feffington Pond"

Alexander Sidwell's last painting before being hauled off to jail for dalliances with a minister's wife.

Sunset

Buddy the Dog

Hibiscus

Covered in Pollen

Kayaking at Great Falls

Monticello

hot colors

Memorial Day Parade in Gettysburg

My Little Chickadee

Clydesdales at Camden Yards

So that's the reason for the odd aftertaste...

The earth is a closed system, so the amount of moisture on our planet has not changed. The water you drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank millions of years ago. The water cycle is the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.

The sun controls the cycle; it heats the water's surface, which evaporates and turns to water vapor. This cools and rises, becoming clouds, and ultimately condenses into water droplets. Then we see the water again in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Some precipitation evaporates back into the atmosphere, but when it hits the ground, it becomes runoff, which can freeze into snow caps or glaciers. Or it sinks into the ground and accumulates in large deposits of useful groundwater.

Rules of Thumb

Iris unfolding

May Daisies

Goslings

Hawk

A Sharpy or Cooper's?

Macro

Azalea Garden

Eisenhower Farm

at the edge of the Gettysburg Battlefield

Blueberry Jam

The doctor's at the jukebox
Crankin' up the night
The host is in the kitchen
Lookin' for a light

Someone's talkin' finance
Someone's talkin' books
Someone's on the sofa
Takin' in the looks

Jesus on a Harley
Drinkin' Moosehead beer
So everybody's happy
Got nothin left to fear

Yeah everybody's happy
They don't give a damn
Dancin' in the middle
of a blueberry jam

Beer

Tulip + Tulip

Smithsonian Kite Festival

Historic White's Ferry

A Clear Muddy Creek

Yesterday Around the Tidal Basin

Geese Take a Break

iPad Art

Cokenpizzabox

Michelangelo's little known 16th century painting, Cokenpizzabox

The Soul of Spring

Art at the Popcorn Factory

Amish Outing

CURRENTLY

Reading: At Home by Bill Bryson
Watching: House, Imus, the national debt grow by leaps and bounds
Hot for: iPad 2
Waiting for: a real revolution in education
Listening to: Adele 21, (Adele); Afterlife (Paul Simon)

Orchid

Still Skating

That Old Apple Moon

Yearning for Spring