I woke up this morning anticipating a butterfly hatching and was not disappointed. In fact, for the first time I saw one peel back its case and crawl out! Usually, they wait until I go back inside to pull that stunt, but this one allowed me to watch. Its wings were completely crumpled into a bunch even shorter than its swollen body. Within 10 minutes, they had unfurled from the circulation. Despite this being the largest caterpillar I'd ever seen and having eating half the plant including food for its much smaller sibling, now cooking in its undersized cocoon, the butterfly was no larger than the others. It suddenly occurs to me that their coloring would make a beautiful Caribbean themed kitchen...

The emergence was just in time, as two tropical storms are making their way past the state this week and there will be few clear mornings.

The Retirement of Hurricane Names

Fractals Wallpaper

Catster

Diagramming Sentences, which is, by the way, very helpful in visualizing parts of speech and teaching kids how to write correctly.

An article on the filming of Return of the Living Dead 4, being filmed at Chernobyl.

Which led to this photo essay of a motorcycle ride through said city. Hard to imagine.