Ordinary Rose

Roses are really rather extraordinary in their beauty - thus the title of this one is something of a contradiction. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting my 8th graders' reports completed and…

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Weird Wind

Another "Glynnia" experiment that went rather well. Today's Gratitude Item: Being able to create fractals as an escape from what has been a difficult, frustrating day. Lets just say that…

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Super Sunflower

Its big and its bright and it makes me happy! Today's Gratitude Item: Finding a very nicely done simulation and explanation of the famous Monty Hall problem. The plan is…

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Crazy Wire Flower

This one is firmly in the "OK" category. Not great, but not terrible either. Today's Gratitude Item: Finally got around to marking my 9th graders' Graphs tests and no-one failed!…

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Knitted Ribbon

This one reminds me of a design on a rather "dated" jumper. Today's Gratitude Item: Completing both my Yom Ha'atzmaut and Yom Ha'Zikaron images for this year. Both will feature…

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Must / Can

Heavily post processed in PSP - the effort was worth it. Today's Gratitude Item: The weather finally cleared up. After two days of grey skies and stormy wind / rain…

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Creative Destruction

If its spiky and it gets thrown, bad things could happen! On the other hand, it is rather pretty. Today's Gratitude Item: "Tart" strawberries. We had some after dinner tonight…

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Green Escape

That guy looks like he is escaping from an ecological nightmare. Today's Gratitude Item: One more sleep until dance camp! This blog is about to go "silent" for a few…

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Star Ripple

This one involved some hanging around and a carefully chosen gradient. Today's Gratitude Item: That most of my 9th graders did the homework that I asked them to do. In…

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Trying Success

If you do not try, you will never succeed. Trying means risking failure - never trying assures it. Today's Gratitude Item: That it finally stopped raining (at least for a…

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