Wildlife: The Blue Heron took a leisurely flight over Middle Foy's Lake, and curved around the shore of Big Foys Lake before coasting back home to the west of us.



Visit: A Tale of Two Movies

Weather: Rained all night, took a break, and started raining after lunch. There was a wildfire near Walla Walla, Washington, about five hours drive away from here. I'll take rain over fires anytime!

Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site Goal: 2.7 million bowls of food this month -- keep helping them -- they were at 2.4 Million last time I checked.

Media watch: It Came From Outer Space was on TCM last night -- fairly sober for a 50's Sci-fi film, but crazy enough to be fun. Hollywood "Teen" Movies Site
Here's a hyperlinked review! 1000 Misspent Hours
I always heard the name of Ray Bradbury associated with this flick, but never knew which story it was. That's because the original was unpublished! A Matter of Taste seems to have been rejected by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction before Bradbury wrote four treatments of it as a movie. Read about it HERE
Hmm -- it looks like it was finally printed as The Meteor.
They also showed Mars Attacks by Tim Burton (Save us, Slim Whitman, save us! Oh yeah, you -- Tom Jones -- give him a hand.) and Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot starring in The Invisible Boy.

Another Photo Update (06/30/05) The Bald Eagle from last Friday: