holding nature

Know when “call of nature” and “holding pattern” come together? When you’re an airline passenger and all the restrooms are occupied.

follow taillight

Human nature,

With no forebode,

Will follow a taillight

Down a risky road.

 

Graph

He hoped hiking amid this nature-rich, mountainous setting would relieve the overburdening pressure of his workday corporate existence. Oh, the grassy loam cushioning his every step here. Ah, the cloudless azure of unlimited overhead. Ooh, the gossamer foliage through which he saw multi-height peaks in the distant mist. Multi-height? Tall next to less-tall peaks?  Taller next to more-tall peaks? The more he stared at those different-size peaks, the more they morphed into something other than mountains.  “Good God, a graph,” he thought. In his mind’s eye, those various-size mountain peaks became spires of different height on a profit-loss graph. “Way out here, even way out here,” he moaned, “I’m back in the office.”

pranks

You reach an age at which you can get prank calls of nature.

afloat

Nature keeps us afloat, the same as the sharks circling us.

second-rater

When you think about a parent who is no first-rater, where in the world should you rank Mother Nature?

catching species

Nature tries to catch species off guard.

science fitting

To nature, one science fits all.

species worry

The species you most worry about are in the frying pan and about to jump.

new leaf

Some turn over a new leaf only because it’s a way for control freaks to control leaves.