Allegra Rivett Sloman's blog

Celebrating her 95th birthday. She is the sweetest lady in the whole world, and I love her dearly. Photo credit Lexi.

Fight depression.

More snow. What is it with this winter? Scroll down about a third of the way to get to a mildly amusing series of pictures called “We Also Dream of Flight“.  Photos by a Russian pilot.

One of the best office cartoons, ever.   Click on it to blow it up and make it readable.

We have forever among us…. A searchable database of C&H cartoons. Woot.

This time the weather is gorgeous.  It’s just hanging on the freezing point and gloriously sunny.  The sunlight is bouncing off what’s left of yesterday’s snow in a glorious way. We ate dinner en famille last night (happens so rarely these days that I must comment… ) I baited the table with sushi. I bought and tried [...]

This is the cuteness.

that TV is bad for you.

I think Paul is going to be sorry he loaned me the car.  There’s 4 inches of snow on Burnaby Mountain; it only stopped snowing around noon. 

I wish I had a camera, it’s pretty spectacular.  And it isn’t snowing anyplace else in Vancouver.  It’s amazing what a thousand feet can do.

This is the USS Cole after it was hit during an attack in 2000.

A lily, from Strangers in Paradise. A word about Strangers in Paradise.  There’s Maus, V for Vendetta, Sandman and Strangers in Paradise.  All have brilliance and beauty.  Strangers in Paradise has the advantage of having lots and lots of nice looking females – the other books are thinner on the ground in the pulchritude department.

Vanity plates Seconds after a passenger train passed, a landslide in Norway took out the ground supporting these tracks.  Painted hands.  A tree frog in amber 

Researchers have learned, to the horror of their sponsors, that marijuana use doesn’t lead to lung cancer.  One wonders if “spaciness, obesity and driving REAL slow” will be found to be marijuana related problems anytime soon.