A quick look at the sky

We're very busy today. All we'll have time for is a quick look out the window:

Sky and new leaves.

Three of my favourite carnivals have been posted this week:

• Carnival of the Blue - All things wet and wonderful
• Circus of the Spineless - Wild and wriggly
• And the last, the final, the swan song of I and the Bird, the granddaddy of Nature Carnivals. I'm sad to see it go, but look forward to what the creators come up with next.  Here's #149. And #1, for the record. And, while I'm at it, #76, the first one I hosted. And Clare's Panegyric. Thanks, Mike for all you've done for the birds and the bird bloggers!

A Skywatch post.

A 30-hour day would be handy about now.

I've been working too long, too hard, too late. Now there's no time to post.

But there's plenty of great reading in the latest Carnival of the Blue, over at Observations of a Nerd, and even more goodies in the 50th Circus of the Spineless, at Arthropoda.

I'll be back in the morning, with some stuck-up spiders.

And just because; a curl of dead kelp, coils of worm poop and water refraction. Boundary Bay, low tide.

Trains, paints, and carnivals

Filed under "Silly Signs":

Active? Active? Those tracks just lie there, day after day.

The trains overhead, Laurie and I, and the graffiti artists; now we are active!

And now activate your clicking finger, and head on over to Southern Fried Science for the latest Carnival of the Blue. (Now with new logo!) While you're there, don't miss the important article on global draining, nor the oh-so-vicious mantis shrimp.

Afterwards, keep on going to Matthew Sarver's Cabinet of Curiosity, for the 48th edition of Circus of the Spineless. A great collection of "Curiosities", old and new. (A copepod with blue eggs?)