These things are growing in the back yard.  Does anyone know what they are?  Can the deer eat them?  Are they poisonous?  Is our yard going to be littered with deer corpses?

This tree is half dead. It is pretty amazing to me that it survived the tropical storm winds, but it is clearly in bad shape.

 Is this being eaten by a woodpecker or is it termites. Please don’t be termites.

Sure looks like a woodpecker to me, but how the hell would I know?

Saw dust on the ground. Interesting.

Does it feel like it’s been 10 years to you? In a way it does. The world is such a different place now. Better in many ways, worse in other ways. At the same time, when I see the pictures and the video it feels like it is still happening. I feel just as helpless as I did 10 years ago.

We are watching the news. The New York memorial is fantastic. I can’t wait to visit it. The memorial in Boston is fantastic. I can’t wait to visit it.

We are going to take part in each moment of silence. Jen and I have both had blubbery moments. The kids don’t understand, but they are trying.

The one thing we need to take from that day is the way we came together as a nation, as a society, as people. We were united. There was so much love as we tried to recover. We could use a little of that now.

We had both my parents and Jen’s parents over for dinner tonight. Jen made spaghetti sauce (gravy) from scratch and DAMN was it good. We haven’t been very good at spending time with either set of grandparents so we were happy to finally make it happen, and we had a great time.

Thank you Nanas and Papas.

This is a test. How does the Blogger app handle video? Does it handle video?

Apparently not. It did not display the video I have in my camera roll.

Crap.

This is actually a test. I haven’t tried accessing the web interface on a mobile device since they radically changed the interface (Google suddenly remembered that people actually use Blogger. Unlike Buzz or Wave). So… I’m using the only picture that’s been hit on Flickr today, so far, as a guinea pig.

Last night my step daughter and I had a duel saxophone jam session. She had her first lesson yesterday. It consisted of putting the horn together and properly honking out an open note.

I tried to remember some major scales, and did some grooving on the obligatory C-blues scale… Which is about all I have left. I paced myself pretty well and got about 10 minutes before my face began protesting.

We have to get her instruction book today, and maybe a couple of other things like a new neck strap. My sax could use it’s own thing of cork grease too. Maybe I’ll snag one. Maybe I’ll place an order for a Selmer Mark VII Tenor while I’m at it. Heh

Here is a pointless photo post!

Why?

I don’t know. This one got three hits on Flickr today. They are my only hits today.

Hooray!