Mary's Ramble

You get a twofer today because I couldn't decide which was funnier :)

via The Travelin' Librarian

I took this on our latest visit to the zoo , and played with it in Picasa .

I'm not a bi g fan of musicals. This seems strange to me. Something tells me I should like them , but I don't. In fact, I think I...

Here's a clip from my new favorite show, The IT Crowd , which is set in (you guessed it!) an IT department: There are more clips here , ...

This is what I was doing yesterday, instead of things I should have been doing, like writing blog posts, working on my WIP, cleaning the hou...

DSC_0014 , originally uploaded by mdesive . From last year's Nebraska Wine and Balloon Festival. The night we went to this year...

Beloit College has released its annual Mindset List , which for some reason didn't make me feel as old as it usually does (except for th...

It's back-to-school week in our household, and that got me thinking about my own school days. They were very different from my daughter...

The Star Wars saga, set to the music of John Williams...wait, wasn't it already?? Just don't blame me if you watch this five times ...

A good friend will visit Mount Moriah Cemetery with you... ...A really good friend will lean out over the edge of a cliff to to take pict...

Virginia Beach, Virginia

...of our city leaders. No real post today. I'm in mourning for the Florence Library. Florence library closing for '09

I was flipping through a magazine the other day and came across a picture from the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet . I was shocked, shocked...

Some of these are funny! Others are where I expect your thoughts would go, given recent events. RecW Mary: "Did you see where Steven T...

Okay, so I'm not in Sturgis, but I'm having a much easier time attending "virtually" this year than ever before. And no, ...

I shot this at the Henry Doorly Zoo a few years ago.

I documented the beginning of my addiction in the Feb 15, 1996 edition of The Eagle , my college's student newspaper. Discipline ? What...

While reading this article on hidden art today, I was reminded of a painting I saw in the Norwich Castle Museum years ago. The paintings i...