Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	Bach double violin concerto (WFMR)

Ides of March...

Over the weekend I went through the photos and scans from raising butterflies last summer. As the temperatures have been below freezing here in Milwaukee, was a nice diversion. After minor reorganization yesterday here they are.

Just as the last blossoms on my Christmas cactus were fading, the hoya (honey vine) produced two flower clusters. The flowers actually drip nectar and have a distinctive scent.

When my son was here on Sunday, Basel the German shepherd kept sniffing around the plants. I lifted the stem of the lower of the two blooming clusters and her eyes lit up and she licked but didn't damage them. She really notices things, and is usually the one who finds "toys" for the others.

Since some of my mito buddies like to use IM and chat rooms and my web hosting includes a Jabber server I downloaded Fire. a Jabber client for Mac OS X and got an AIM screen name set up to complement existing Yahoo! and ICQ accounts. It is rather strange that although I have been on the Internet almost forever (OK, since late 1980s) I didn't do a lot of stuff like that before. I think it was because talk requests distracted me when I was busy working in a terminal window.