Tiny flowers between paving stones

Codling moth caterpillar

Hide your apples.

Pinecone trick

Take an ordinary open pinecone, like, say, one of these, and drop it in a bucket with a little water.

Shazam!  It closes up (eventually)!  Then take it and put it somewhere dry, like on a windowsill maybe...

Whoa!  It opens back up.

Poo & sky

"...the Su-jok therapy devised by Korean scientist Park Jae Woo, which I will include here in a spirit of public health because it served me well during ensuing months of research in toilet-deficient places.  Should the urge to defecate strike, take a pen, pencil, or blunt object and trace a line, deeply and with pressure, in a clockwise direction on the left palm or counterclockwise on the right.  The urge, assures Dr. Park, 'will immediately cease.  You too can try sometime and feel the magic pressure in reverse order will give good relief in constipation.'"

--George, Rose. The Big Necessity:  The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters.  New York:  Metropolitan Books, 2008.  p. 106.

Snowdrop

So much better than snowfall

At an abandoned brick factory