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Well, early official reports from my folks would seem to indicate that 1) our mysterious egg is possibly a Morning Dove egg, and 2) real egg reportings would include a ruler or some scale reference. So here…a ruler. Ok, ok, it also proves that I don’t know how long a centimeter is since the egg was really 2.5 cm long.

OK, I love a good spam email. Particularly the ones from victims of political turmoil pleading with me to help them transfer huge sums of money. Truly, they make me chuckle. But today’s spam from the mysterious “Elena” has me puzzled. The social scientist in me always wants to figure out the hook that would lure unsuspecting recipients to reply with their personal information. But “Elena” had no hook. Her email didn’t make sense, and I don’t know what she WANTS from me. Sigh.

Check this out…the punctuation and grammar are directly copied. Its still fascinating.

“Hi! My name is Elena , My job in Moscow , but now i’m workingin Saint-Petersburg. I’d like to travel between Saint-Petersburg andMoscow all the time, I work for a phone-provider company. I will giveyou more detail later. You can email me on my work email address to:elena27@mysunday.org I will send a photo and tell you more if you reply.”

Huh? Oh, “Elena”. Why am I drawn to this stuff?

And, no, I have no new pictures this morning to accompany this posting. I’m off to class this afternoon, however, so I’m sure that I will have a fresh assignment to work on. Maybe the assignment will be “odd food products” and I’ll be golden with my Bingles!

Well, Mother Nature sent a couple of odd visitors to our garden today. One was a tiny, white egg–about one centimeter in length. I found it while I was planting some new items in the succulent garden. The egg was sitting in the open, on the rocks…so it must have fallen or been carried from somewhere.

Secondly, we watched a lone hornet building the beginnings of a nest in the bougainvillea that Jeff was trimming. In one of my braver moments, I cut the limb and hid 🙂 Victory is mine! (Ah, Stewie.)

What a yummy food day! This morning, I made hearty blueberry pancakes and bacon for us. And this afternoon, I broke out the panini press that Jeff got me for Christmas–its a Cuisinart model, and thus far it is working quite nicely. I made delicious smoked turkey, bacon, and monterey jack paninis. I could truly eat these any time of day or day of the week. In the afternoon, on our errands out and about, I snapped another picture in my emerging graffiti series. This isn’t an intentional series…this stuff is just catching my eye recently. I’m sure it will run its course, and I’ll be back to fog and rain and blurry pictures soon 🙂

On mornings when traffic on the freeway into downtown is slow, I often take a meandering route through the City’s Bayview neighborhood, which hugs the industrial eastern bay coastline. On one of these mornings, I noticed a small, out-of-place sign for a coastal park. So, I veered from my route, only to enter a pre-dawn apocalyptic world.

I’ve been drawn back to this unlikely spot several times, including this morning, when I knew the early morning light would really bring out the colors in the graffiti art.

Literally, every surface–from building to bench to fence to rock–is covered with the most elaborate street art. They even painted the tree! I will certainly go back for more, but enjoy these initial images.