Banished's Bugs

Now the evenings are finally cooling into the low 50s it's remarkably quiet outside. Best time of year to sleep, with the windows wide ...

Just returned from escorting Banished Jr to his first Comicon in Virginia Beach. He insisted on going dressed as Batman and he seemed to enj...

OK so we are done with the garden decor for this Halloween season. We left it until later in the day as it was too warm this morning and it...

Found on the French doors yesterday was this Katydid, the Hook-faced Conehead ( Pyrocorypha uncinata ). This is a female as seen from t...

...which I happily spotted and avoided as I drove through the neighborhood this morning.  A small box turtle ( it's a tortoise t...

Hershey's Chocolate World. Hershey PA. And may the Mayan god of chocolate have mercy on our financial souls! But back on the...

Danbury Connecticut  Hail to Charles Ives, a prince amongst insurance men. And not too bad an amateur composer on the w...