The moths who came in from the cold
BC's Lower Mainlanders will mark this on their calendars; Thursday, November 26th, it stopped raining. The sun shone. Patches of blue sky showed up between the clouds.How long has it been now? Weeks. A shuttle driver told me the good weather is supposed to last through the weekend. Incredible!I was out all day, getting the car serviced, then waiting around for the end of rush hour to drive home. The warmth of the day had dissipated by the time I got here; there was a chill wind. On the wall by the front door,  a dozen or so moths were sheltering from the cold. I haven't seen moths outside in ages, so I went in and got a few pill bottles.The moths wer

"Mythic and mundane"; the Eastside crows
Post #2 on the 2009 Culture Crawl.The header of the Culture Crawl website features crows. Crows carrying a red-tipped paintbrush perch above the doors of Crawl artists.

Doing the Crawl, 2010
This last weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the annual Eastside Culture Crawl was underway in Strathcona. Unfortunately, it was pouring rain the first two days, so we stayed home and did a much-abbreviated Crawl on Sunday. Still, we met new artists, old friends, a variety of dogs; we bought a few items and wished we could

Poor Snowflake!
He just doesn't get that he's not the world's toughest fighter.  He's lost another pincer.Still has all eight legs, though. That's something.

Four and twenty mussels ...
Yesterday I was asking, "Do flatworms eat barnacles?"  I've been searching for an answer, without much success. The websites I visited mention mollusks, especially oysters, other worms, and dead organisms, but don't differentiate between different flatworm species.I wanted more info. The real question I was asking was, "What specific animals does this species of flatworm eat? And how did mine grow so fast?" And I kept remembering the giant worm that was destroying coral in a UK aquarium. Could my little