campus lake

These gorgeous pics are of a lake on the Wellesley campus, taken with my girlfriend's new digital camera.

on the trail

A lovely day for a walk in the woods.

PINE CONE!!

That's not a photoshop trick, that is the biggest pine cone I have ever seen! Imagine that thing falling out of a tree and hitting you on the top of your head. This is in the botanic garden on the grounds of Wellesley College, where my girlfriend is a professor.

BUR

This is the biggest bur I have ever seen. I thought it was a baby hedge hog when I first saw it.

Cool place

My girlfriend and I found this great little place with a stagnant water hole and a cool rock face. We were walking on the school grounds of Wellesley, on a sort of mini hike.

second huge spider

This is the second gigantic spider in my place in the same week. I froze, took a photo and released this guy too.

GROSS BUG

This scary gross bug was in my apartment. I caught it and froze it for a minute so I could take this photo. He was thawing quickly while I took the picture and he started moving again. I was creeped out and could only snap 2 photos, before I had to throw him out.

HUGE!

This spider is HUGE!! I caught him in my apartment after he gave me quite a fright. He jumped out from behind my laundry basket as I went to take the clothes from it. I did not want to kill or squish him. I released him outside. How did I get him to pose for the photo? I caught him in a cup and put him in the freezer for a minute. He'll defrost outside and live to terrorize another day.

CAPYBARA

Unfortunately this picture doesn't have a reference to show the size of these creatures. From the photo they could easily mistaken to be the size of a Guinea Pig....but that would be wrong. These guys are actually HUGE! They are about the size of a baby Hippopotamus, or a big farm pig. These 2 capybara where photographed at the Biodome in Montreal.

package coincidence

I ordered a shirt on ebay. It came from Ohio. I was about to throw out the empty package when something caught my eye. First it was the address where it came from. I blocked out the number in the pic above, but you can see the street name STONEYBROOK. My girlfriend is about 2 weeks away from doing her defense and getting her PHD at STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY on LONG ISLAND NY. The second thing that caught my eye was the name of the sender. M. GILL. Whenever Nefta, my girfriend, comes up to Montreal to see me, we pass by a university here and joke that she will never teach there. That university is called Mc Gill. What does this all mean. I don't know, but it is clearly an omen of something.