pleasant images

When you have spent the whole day thinking about rats, it is soothing to recall some pleasant images from California. 

Here a butterfly poses before my boyfriends in the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Under the butterfly but out of the frame is my grandmother in a wheelchair, enjoying a close-up view of one monarch butterfly attempting to inseminate another. 

Here is my dad, proudly showing off his new shoes. He has foot problems so he has bought and returned three pairs of running shoes in the last month in an attempt to find something suitable. I recommended low hiking boots/trail running shoes, advice he pooh-poohed, and then a day later he returned home from work declaring that he had found the perfect shoes (which were trail running shoes). And they were only $34.99 per pair! He bought two, and complained to me that the women's version only cost $29.99 because of sexism. He wore them inside the house with these blue labratory-style shoe condoms because he didn't want to scuff them up in case he still wanted to return them.

Here is Boo failing at catching a soccer ball in mid-air.

Here is Boo enjoying his post-waterhosing towel rubdown.  What a guy. Aw.