Picture Sundays: A Native Bee Hotel

December 16, 2012

...Don’t know much about this native bee house other than that it’s near Paris. For more info on native bee habitats, see our post from earlier this year. Update: reader Drew left a comment to say that this habitat is in the Jardin des Plantas in Paris which is attached to the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (http://www.mnhn.fr/le-museum/). Thanks to David Dalzel for the tip....

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Picture Sundays: Chumash ‘Ap

Mr. Homegrown

December 30, 2012

Design, Picture Sundays

...The interior of a traditional Chumash dwelling called an ‘ap as recreated at the La Purisima Mission State Historic Park near Lompoc, California. If only a fraction of modern dwellings were this elegant . . ....

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Picture Sundays: Why Cats Purr

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2012

Picture Sundays

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...Some solid science here. Not sure where this comes from, but spotted it on Doug Harvey’s Facebook page....

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Picture Sundays: Water Jug Lamp

Mr. Homegrown

January 13, 2013

Picture Sundays, Preparedness

...Camping lamp improvised with a headlamp and a jug of water. Via Homesteading....

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Picture Sundays: I’m One Taco Short of a Combination Platter

Mr. Homegrown

February 3, 2013

Picture Sundays

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It’s a huge non sequitur, but today’s impending Superbowl made me think of the gatefold for the ZZ Top album Tres Hombres. Perhaps it was the publicity person who wanted me to promote a birria meat stew concocted by a celebrity chef (and celebrity flag football participant–who knew there was such a thing?) in conjunction with the Superbowl. Or maybe I’m having a Proust moment, except with nachos instead of madeleines. So what are Root Simple read...

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