Watching the Fat Dinosty (which is awesome by the way) got me thinking about the good old Stegosaurus.  Apparently the translation of this guy’s name is “roof lizard”.  Don’t ask me why.  Anyways, this lovable plant eater was far from…

While looking at some of the huge bamboo groves at the Huntington Gardens today, I started to wonder just how big this stuff gets. Well in August 2003, botanists at Yunnan University found the world’s biggest bamboo plant in an…

Went to the Huntington Gardens today,  It was yet another of a long list of wonderful places right in our backyard we hadn’t previously found time to explore.  It was so wonderful.  Probably the highlight of the gardens was the…

Went to the zoo yesterday and had a nice look at these stately beauties.  That’s me (in the picture) eyeballing a baby giraffe (who was really just interested in the nice green branch that had fallen just out of his…

I think a lot of times as adults we lose one of the most important tools in our get happy, be happy, stay happy arsenal.  That tool is the power to play.  To wonder about stuff.  To pretend.  To imagine.…