I don’t think there will be many more evenings like this.
The three bonsai trees.
Can you believe this is the same Japanese maple as a few weeks back?
Quite a contrast to what I was dealing with last week.
That was not the first time that screen appeared.
I don’t know who this fuzzy critter is.
The Chinese elm.
Penjing has been thriving on the deck, day in and day out.
Still nothing to say.
Penjing is blooming.
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on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.” on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
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on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
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Have you tried re-installing Windows from scratch Father?.
You know reformat your drive and do a fresh clean install?.
It looks like fall, we are still in summer heat in Texas. If my wife and I go out for an evening walk with our Boxer it is still hot. Father I envy those who live up north in the summers but would not trade our winters. Thank you for being a Priest.
If you get really curious about that caterpillar, you might have a look at whatsthatbug.com They have thousands of photos of every bug one could imagine. It’s a hit with every little boy i know :)
ahh the fall is here, lets get ready for advent
Penjing is lovely; and the Japanese Maple!
Such a lovely deck and beautiful view. Thank you, Fr.Z
I don’t want to sound like a total crab, but I can’t wait for the frost. My allergies and asthma are driving me nuts! Not to mention the humidity which, no matter if its hot or cold is not helpful. Sorry to be such a “negative nelly.”
The pictures are great, though.
Looks like the fuzzy critter is a pale tussock moth.
The blue screen of death… haven’t seen that for quite awhile!
What lovely photos :)
Yes, Summer’s coming to an end here in Italy (oh, I believe it ended yesterday) – but Autumn has its quiet beauty.
(And I’m sure there’ll be lots more evenings like that in your life … you are young Fr. Z.!)
Capterpillar looks like the American Dagger Moth
If link does not work, go to this page.
And, the homepage. It’s a nice way to ID caterpillars. Click on the body style.
American Dagger Moth is quite homely looking in contrast to the beautiful appearance of the caterpillar.
American Dagger Moth. The most beautiful caterpillers are usually moths!
Who would have thunk that here on the home base of a goodly share of American traditional Catholicsism, there is a subcaucus composed of caterpillar and moth afficianados.
The Church truly is universal!
Nice views of your deck and all the trees, Father! What a cute little fuzzy caterpillar!
‘The blue screen of death’….oooo, never had anything like happen to my computer! But then, I only use mine for surfing and for e-mail…never created a website, a blog or anything like that…I’m very ‘technology-challenged’…in other words, DUMB as a post!
Thank you for the outdoor meditation-truly beautiful. The birds are beginning to leave where we are….
BTW, following up on an earlier post, you might want to read up on Tosca’s premier last night at the Met.
It was booed worse than any opera in the Met’s history, and the audience made the curtain come down!
Our Lady was not amused, it seems….
Allan S.: Our Lady was there too?
Fr Z’s blog is extending English readers’ vocabulary! I have just had to look up ‘critter’ as had no idea what it meant. I see that it is the American for ‘creature’ and apparently it is how people in Shakespeare’s time would have pronounced ‘creature.’
Beautiful photos Fr Z of trees and critter. I would not advise touching the caterpillar – last time I touched a particularly furry caterpillar I came out in a rash!