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Because, seriously, who else is going to show your their kid’s liver???

Yup, that is the liver and gallbladder belonging to my younger daughter, Mollie. I guess, technically, the gallbladder no longer belongs to her, since it was taken out. That photo is a close up of one of four photos, on … Continue reading

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Sky and water… more random photos that I took in the Bay Area, that night my mom and I went to watch the sunset over the Bay Area from the Berkeley hills…

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What if… part 4…

What if Dachshunds were really short?

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What if… part 3…

What if snakes were short and fat? Would they have to roll around like tumbleweeds??? Or would they just slither along very slowly in an awkward scrunching motion??? These are the things that I wonder about.

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What if… part 2…

What if hippos were built like greyhounds??? That would be bad. Hippos are mean. They kill more people in Africa than lions or crocodiles. Faster hippos are a bad idea.

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What if… part 1…

What if giraffes didn’t have long necks? I mean, they didn’t always have long necks. That is just the way evolution works… uh, sorry, religious fanatics. This idea, like most of my ideas, came about thanks to the crack squirrels … Continue reading

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So, my younger daughter, Mollie, had an organ removed… and all you got was these lousy and almost completely unrelated photos from my phone…

Okay, the title is a total lie. These first few photos aren’t completely unrelated to Mollie’s surgery. I took them of a big, thorny tree outside the medical center while the surgery was being done, on Coronado Island here in … Continue reading

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More pictures of the sun setting over the San Francisco Bay, that I took when I was up there for Christmas, and without all those annoying, distracting words that I always try to stick between all the photos in my posts… part 1…

 

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San Francisco, the light side and the dark side, the high and low, and the many moods of the mysterious Lady by the Bay…

Okay, so I got carried away with the title. I could have gone with: San Francisco, from two points of view, or something like that. But the title sometimes lures unsuspecting victims into the clutches of my blog… so… yeah… … Continue reading

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A crow on a dead tree branch, and a battle in the sky…

Crow on a dead tree branch… that should be the name of a band, or a song, or an epic poem. Have you ever seen crows or jays swooping at a hawk to drive it away? Hawks are fearsome on … Continue reading

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