Monthly Archives: March 2005

For years (and for me that’s decades), I’ve been wondering about the origin of sets of words.  One that I remember thinking about when I was a teenager was the origin of animal refering words ending in ‘-ine’. For example, … Continue reading →

I enjoy old pictures.  These are some of my favorites.  Most of the pictures are of my various relatives.  Taj scanned them in for me (including some of her poodle).  

A little explaination about the bugs…  I took all the pictures except for the hummingbird moth.  I used a a Sony FD-81 with a macro lense to take most of them.  Why bugs?  Well, you have to admit that they’re extremely varied … Continue reading →