Watching the Wheels

The Toyota Prius may be looking very much like this in a few years. There is talk of making it either a plug-in or half electric/half biodiesel. That upgrade combined with this styling would be phenomenal. I just can't get enough of that roof.

More pictures here.

Rare Beauty

I thought it so appropriate that I should see today, on the vernal equinox (1st day of spring), a pair of Sandhill Cranes and their newborn, long-legged chicks--newly hatched and strolling down the sidewalk--taking in spring.

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An American Self-Portrait

This picture depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. Go here

and click on Running the Numbers to see the staggering beauty of Chris Jordan's creative use of statistics.

As you look closer, the outrageous amount of consumerism that defines American culture becomes strikingly clear.