A Vampire's Grave

It was a cold and blustery day. And as the couple walked the cemetery in search of the grave, a light snow began to fall......

This isn't a story-line from a movie or tv show. This is what happened to Hubby & I last weekend when we went in search of a special grave reported to belong to a Vampire! 

As the legend goes, there is a grave in the Lafayette, Colorado cemetery that belongs to a supposed Vampire direct from Transylvania. And the stake that was driven through his heart later grew into a tree.

Here is the headstone......

of Todor Glava who was born in Transylvania and died in December 1918.

And here is the tree which grew from the stake.

Weird Wednesday~Underwater Crop Circles

One person who has dedicated his life to uncovering the mysteries of the oceans is Japanese photographer Yoji Ookata who has spent the last 50 years exploring and documenting his discoveries off the coast of Japan. 

Recently while on a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country, Ookata spotted something he had never encountered before: rippling geometric sand patterns nearly six feet in diameter almost 80 feet below sea level. He soon returned with colleagues and a television crew from the nature program NHK to document the origins what he dubbed the “mystery circle.”

Using underwater cameras the team discovered the artist is a small puffer fish only a few inches in length that swims tirelessly through the day and night to create these vast organic sculptures using the gesture of a single fin. Through careful observation the team found the circles serve a variety of crucial ecological functions, the most important of which is to attract mates. 

Apparently the female fish are attracted to the hills and valleys within the sand and traverse them carefully to discover the male fish where the pair eventually lay eggs at the circle’s center, the grooves later acting as a natural buffer to ocean currents that protect the delicate offspring. Scientists also learned that the more ridges contained within the sculpture resulted in a much greater likelihood of the fish pairing.

Happier than....

A Witch in a Broom Factory!

LOVE this commercial!