These are generally considered the first sounds ever recorded (on a lamp-blackened sheet of paper stuck to a spinning cylinder, the sound wa...

These parallel dabblers really surprised me! I could even hear their busy little bills dribbling and drabbling in the delicious muck. I'...

SILENT VERSION. . . 

  OK then, so this one has OVER FIVE MILLION VIEWS now. It's still rising, along with my subscription count, which is WAY higher than I ...

My nature walks keep me sane, or at least as sane as I can expect to be in these horrific times. I love extreme closeups of mallards, as the...

  What DO they do every day? Harry and Meghan solemnly pledged themselves to a 'life of service' and 'global action' after t...

I love old commercials more than life itself, and I can't resist playing around with them a bit. I was amazed how many views this got! I...

The wigeons are back! After a long, cold, lonely winter, spring and the birds have finally arrived.   Birds are my spiritual salvation, so t...

Strange are the things I find on my walks around Como Lake. Even stranger is the fact that this is the first time I noticed it, though I'...

PSALM 74       A maskil of Asaph. 1  O God, why have you rejected us forever?      Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your...

A particular aspect of Victorian culture was the sidesaddle. For the sake of modesty, women were not allowed to ride astride - such things w...

This is a bit of a classic: Bentley trying to be right inside a TV program. It was a Nature of Things documentary about CATS, and though he ...

Part Two of the Orson Welles wine ad that made me laugh for the first time in YEARS.

"AHHHH! The French. . ." I found this gem late at night, and COULD NOT stop laughing, until tears rolled down my face. Then it str...

What can I say? You could build some mighty muscles lifting one of these.

Come up. Come up. Come ALL THE WAY UP . . . to Kool. Or lung cancer.

  I can say nothing about this gorgeous work of art  (so I'll say something): it symbolizes every summer I ever spent at the cottage, sa...

This few seconds of film has haunted me for years. I did not give it a context, because I felt it was more powerful if I didn't - and Yo...

Bentley and I have a bedtime ritual which never varies. He has to beg for (no, ASK for his treats) by raising his paw. Undignified for a cat...

Newly Unearthed Time Capsule is Just Full Of Useless Old Crap TOPEKA, KS—A deep sense of disappointment gripped the citizens of Topeka, KS, ...

  (PLEASE NOTE. This entire post is a repeat from 2014, so you'd think it would be hopelessly out of date. It isn't. Since I publish...