I am sure glad this isn’t my car. That thing is not going to be able to drive until the spring thaw. It had a solid inch of ice coating it. A really mean prank.

Chicago is getting its first big snow of the year.  They are estimating about 6 inches when all is said and done.  The dogs love it.  Hopefully Hannah will go sledding for the first time soon.  To top it all off, on Thursday, the national weather service is predicting 1/4 to 1/2 in of ice to form on surfaces, that is really scary.  I took a photo with the iPhone, all the snow sure is pretty as long as you don’t have to do anything important.

Check out the videos of a very neurotic cat. These videos are all off YouTube but in the Japanese version. There are even more videos there.

Nice shots through the box.

Hold your breath for this one!

I saw this photos and had to put it on my site too. How would you like to catch one of these monsters on a fly rod. The original post postulates that this may be what big foot subsists on and I am inclined to agree. They also point out this photo is indeed real and it is unfortunate that when we see photos like this we think it is photoshopped because this salmon is 5-6 years old and lived a normal life. In other words without over fishing we would see fish like this frequently.

Bigfoot food!

Nadia, Cinder, and I spent spent Saturday afternoon hunting pheasant. It was all three of our first time out and it was a lot of fun. I went to a hunt club that is open to public. They released four birds for me into a one acre field planted with what I think is called grain sorghum. It was very thick cover (it thins out by the middle of November), but Nadia and Cinder still managed to find and flush all the birds. We faced a few difficulties; my lack of shooting skill coupled with fact that my dogs are going to flush the pheasant whether I am ready or not, and Nadia couldn’t see over the plants to find the birds, but if I could spot the general area she would go fetch it up for me. We came home with 2 out 4 birds. One got away and another flew over some trees into a neighboring field and went down, but it would have been unsafe to retrieve because there were hunters there too. We had an awesome day though. Invitations are open to all for duck or pheasant.

Just thought I would say good morning with a nice iPhone sunrise shot.

Check out this really bright grasshopper. I had to post him because he is the kind of hopper I would want to eat if I ever ate chocolate covered grasshoppers or had to survive in the wild like Bear Grylls.

A very pretty planter in LaGrange. I figured our days of having color in Chicago are rapidly coming to an end and I better record some of it. Not a bad photo for the iPhone.