Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

This really nice hiking area is in the town that I live in. In this area of New Mexico this is the vegetation that is here. Some people call this a desert. It’s pretty interesting. I think some of these rocks have fossils and the ocotillos are also fossilized. This is what it looks like…

I always loved these growing up. I believe these were my grandmother’s favorite along with hollyhocks. I am not sure really how to take care of these. They are all pretty much dead now but there are still leaves at least. How sad!

I always learned that moths lie their wings flat when they land and butterflies land with their wings up. But this one seemed to do both and it looks like it has those owl eye markings in the inner wings in order to scare away predators. I couldn’t find anything that helped me to name…

These were fun to take. The blue light can be made to look like a planet instead of a big glob if you use one of the settings in ‘portrait’ on the iPhone. Then turn the amount of light coming in to almost nothing. Or you can use the last setting to make the blue…

Today I saw the cutest little mouse jumping like a flash through my yard! It jumped just like a kangaroo. It was too far away to get a picture of but it was very dark in color. That is the closest I have ever been to one. They are so adorable! I wish I had…

For this Kiwi Walker Art painting I took soy candle wax and added it to acrylic paint or the craft paint. I made too much of each color so I just piled it on paper that is made for paintings. You could use cardboard if you don’t want to buy that and then glue on…

Before After So one of my candles got broken and so I went to see if I could find one like it but they had no candle holders!!! What?!?!? How can this be? So I had to change a few of the decorations. I really never change things unless I am forced to do it…

This is one of the prettiest roses that I have ever seen. I love the color of this one.