April 2018 – Black and White

Not really

I volunteer my sister to clean up the vomit.

Bill

William Stone Weedon (July 5, 1908 – May 13, 1984), was a scholar, university professor (philosophy, mathematics, logic, linguistic analysis), and U.S. Navy Officer.

William Weedon was an individual not bound by conventions. He was a member of the Albemarle Garden Club at a time when the club had only one other male member.[8] He won a Blue Ribbon Prize in a flower arrangement contest by placing a solitary rose inside a horse’s skull.–Wikipedia

Coluber constrictor

vertical wall — In C. constrictor, mating takes place in the spring, from April until early June. Around a month later the female will lay anywhere from 3 to 30 eggs in a hidden nest site such as a hollow log, an abandoned rodent burrow, or under a rock.–Wikipedia

Didelphis virginiana

Fritz the possum — Opossums have 50 teeth, more than any other North American land mammal.
Opossums have 13 nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle.
An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that “An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat. Under her belly she hath a bagge, wherein she lodgeth, carrieth, and sucketh her young.”–Wikipedia

Pontiac

Floyd’s Pontiac, hanging with Holsteins. Madison County, Virginia.

mama said

swinging flashlight — actually, she never did. She was positive.
(For Mr. Markowski’s photo class.)

day of rest

Aaron

Mr. Aaron Hammond, Jacksonville, Florida.

KSA -1

Terrible twos. Tilly draws the line on acquiring a new skill. No means no. Beyond the pale. Operate your own electrolux.

Peromyscus leucopus

I encountered four very quiet juvenile mice in the house on Monday. Country mice. Polite. I moved them outside. They have Beatrix Potter to thank for my solicitous response.