Brian Fies once used the term “tapas” for a blog post that contained a number of unrelated topics. I’m stealing the idea. Please enjoy a sample of tidbits today.
We put a helicopter on Mars, and it flies!
I’m reading an enjoyable middle-grade fantasy book this week. It’s called Oddity and it’s by Eli Brown. Clover is the daughter of a country doctor in an early 19th-century America filled with folkloric magic. Clover’s America is not ours. She soon sets off on a quest and in short order has acquired a hat that holds secrets and magical doll that would send the likes of evil-doll Chuckie running for cover. She is befriended by a talking rooster and a medicine-show performer, all on the way to uncover the mystery about her mother, who died in a fire when Clover was an infant.
This morning I went for a short early walk in Ragle Park. I brought my camera. A green heron was fishing for tadpoles in the artificial pond between the soccer fields and the bathrooms.
