Can you guess what kind of animal this is?

I think its a Tribble.


Click on picture for the answer.

I wrote the following as I was staring at the background of my blog.
I was in the middle of paying bills so it was easy to let my mind wander away
for a moment.

I can see ahead,
Through the trees,
through the fog,
It seems as if I know,..........
.....................what I see up ahead,
A realization hits me,..............
.............all in one moment,
I really don't see anything,
I don 't even know where I am!
The fabric of life unravels.........
.....into chaos,
Only to find itself,
Once more as it has always been,
yet completely different,
I keep going,
On through the fog,
with a clear picture,
of this sunny wood,
inside my heart.

Do you wanna know how
hot it was last week?

NJ balloon festival

There is no key to happiness.
The door is always open.

imagebyneil

I've updated my "Day in pictures" page

Tuesday morning, Traffic and a large red sun.
Its going to be a hazy, hot day.

The family Estate.

For more pics go to click here

the Oak Leaf Preserve is directly adjacent to Mom's land.

rain rain go away?

All summer I have heard people complain about all the rain.
This morning I took this picture that is the byproduct of all that rain.

The monotone of the rain is beautiful,

And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.

The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.

A face I know is beautiful—
With fire and gold of sky and sea,
And the peace of long warm rain.
Sandberg

Darwin, A man of God

Darwin's "Tree of Life"
Darwin's famous sketch from Transmutation Notebook B
that represents the divergence in his thinking about
extinction and adaptation over time.


Darwin had difficulty with William Paley's idea of a God who acts through Nature. Darwin couldn't believe God designed a particular animal or plant for a singular purpose. In this July 3, 1860 letter to Harvard botanist Asa Gray, Darwin explicitly points out his reasons for rejecting Paley's argument:

One word more on "designed laws" & "undesigned results." I see a bird which I want for food, take my gun & kill it, I do this designedly.—An innocent & good man stands under tree & is killed by flash of lightning. Do you believe (& I really should like to hear) that God designedly killed this man? Many or most person do believe this; I can't & don't.—If you believe so, do you believe that when a swallow snaps up a gnat that God designed that that particular swallow should snap up that particular gnat at that particular instant? I believe that the man & the gnat are in same predicament.—If the death of neither man or gnat are designed, I see no good reason to believe that their first birth or production should be necessarily designed. Yet, as I said before, I cannot persuade myself that electricity acts, that the tree grows, that man aspires to loftiest conceptions all from blind, brute force.

speaking of faith

"Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung

Interesting choice of lawn ornaments.
I wonder how he got started collecting them?

Kendall park NJ

Happy day!
I can now get my gas and my coffee in one stop!
Life is good.