I feel we could all do with some happy-ish cuteness right now. So here’s some quokkas from Rottnest Island, off the Perth coast.
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Every time I go by one side of the house I notice this tree in the neighbor’s yard. That’s a black walnut tree, and Wikipedia says that leaf form is pinnate, or feather-like. The way the leaves overlap makes it look like something vibrating, the way an illustrator would draw shaky borders around something quivering. Or like something in contact with the surface of a lake, making ripples. Catches my eye every time.
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My first reaction!
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The Corning Museum of Glass has a furnace can! Wait for it…
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Kept looking for the can, wondering what it was for. There are wonderful cans, for sure, but the inanimate kind that people gush over are truly special. Combustors, for example.
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Typo clearance needed on Aisle 3!
(furnace caM, not can)
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Singapore’s Arab Quarter (misleadingly called “Arab Street” when it’s actually a square mile or so):
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Indeed @chgoliz. Cam, not can. Made by adding a sheet of Glass like the kind used on the space shuttle to the back of the glass furnace then putting a well air conditioned camera behind it. It was groovy!!! Highly recommend this museum.
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Well I’m inspired.
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Kranji nature reserve is about as far north as you can go in Singapore. The lights across the water are Johor Bahru, the southernmost city in Malaysia. We could hear the call to prayer across the water when I took this:
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Aw, that just rubs it in . . . But what a beautiful view.
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If it’s any consolation, it was the worst Singapore Sling I’ve had 
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