I spotted this in the gutter next to my car when I stopped at a deli for sandwiches on Tuesday night before band practice. There’s a hospital nearby, so I’m guessing someone (a med student? an intern?) had an "Oh, shit!" moment upon returning from lunch sometime this week.
This is the street where I live. I’m not being all creepy and metaphorical – it really is my street. Looks a little foreboding at night, though, doesn’t it?
BoingBoing and several other blogs have picked up a story today about a hen in Mexico that lays green eggs – as if nobody’s ever heard of such a thing before.
I’ve been familiar with multicolored hens’ eggs since childhood. We always kept Araucana hens, partly because the eggs are so pretty and partly because they and their roosters are very mellow and non-aggressive. Their egg shells range in color from an almost olive green to lighter green to pale blue. The insides are the same as any other egg.
This photo shows a pretty good range of egg colors from my aunt’s chickens:
It’s a little difficult to tell because of the boiling water, but there are green, blue, pink, brown and white eggs in there. Fun, huh?
Part of me really wishes that I could build a chicken coop in my yard and keep hens for the eggs. However, it’s not legal in the town where I live. Add to that the number and variety of predators that I regularly see roaming the yard and it would probably cause me more angst than it’s worth anyway. I do enjoy farm fresh eggs, though.
I participated in the 24 Hours of Flickr project on Saturday in the hope of giving myself the boost I needed to start taking more photos. I ended up having a busy day of yoga class,
a trip to the vet,
a three-hour nap that resulted in a gap in the photo record, breakfast,
a trip to a drum shop,
a walk up the street,
time spent in the yard,
housework, dinner,
and finally, a couple sets of live music at a bar.
See my entire photo set here.
