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Went for a hike today and saw several of these cute little guys on the trail:

And here’s another shot from the hike today:

I told you there’d be some nonsense here while I was away from Cramer

I caught this photo while walking through the Public Garden yesterday.

As a side note… hopefully I’m nearing the end of my long drupal induced nightmare. If that is, in fact, true, I should be a little more consistent with the posting around here. I know I’ve been totally manic with my schedule. Not that I want to be Mr. Clockwork, but I definitely hate how I’ve gone through phases of heavy posting and then slipping away into nothing for a day or two while I have my head down trying to stay tethered firmly to reality. I’ve got four or five good posts* waiting in the wings and I just can’t get to them. Boo!

*good to me. Your mileage may vary, depending on why you actually read this thing.

Les carries his own camera gear, films himself and, oh, he’s not a phony.

Bear Grylls? Sleeping in hotels.

ABC News: ‘Wild’ Storm: Reality Survival Show Faked

Besides that, and that’s bad enough, he’s a show-boater. He’s always jumping off stuff, scrambling down things and climbing up shit for no good reason other than to prove he can. Les? Les is all about not dying. The only thing close to showboating he ever did was work in a sling that one episode.

Here’s one of the many activities that filled up my weekend:

that’s climbing to the top of Mt. Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts It was kind of tough, but definitely fun.

We were in the Blue Hills Reservation, coming down off of a hill and we saw a Scarlet Tanager high up in a tree. It’s a very cool bird and has a really familiar song. Apparently there are some in the Arnold Arboretum, but since they stay so high up surface dwellers never get a chance to see them. Here’s an example I found in user badjoby’s flickr:

When I first saw the headline:

Laxative Ad Gets U.S. Parks Officials Fuming

I thought, what the heck is that all about?

Seems they don’t want people to throw things into geysers and the ad implies that that is an okay thing to do. Sounds reasonable.