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Best of TTaT

2005:

The Dive at Machu Picchu

Phoenix Rising

What Not to Tell Me

One Year Ago

A Prelude to Bewitched

Question Mark, Jerk

Hamlet was my undoing: Part I

The Prom: Take Two (part 1)

Restraint

Goblets of Beer

Three Breaks

Tidbit

Beauty Parlor Nostalgia

Higher Altitude

2006:

The Doctor is In

Either I've still got it, or I should be insulted

Night aerobics

The unconscious lie

Why wasn't it me?

Life at 16: The License Test

Little Creatures

Tacos and the bear

Good Friday Meets the Twilight Zone

PRSD

Blue gloves

I know that ass

The Screws of The Man

Heights, old and new

People are strange, myself included

I'm dreaming of a...

2007:

Formalwear Claire

Pollocks in Nature

In the ground

Clash of the Foreign Tongues

Flashback: An Evening's Soiree Cycle

A follow-up of sorts

Talking 'bout the car wash

Trees fight back

Leaf density II

Let The Pictures Do The Talking: A Road Trip

When a canvas presents itself...

Behind the Harry Potter lines: redux

Not always the best skill

Defining References

Inadvisable, certainly

Clear sky at last

Ruins where I can get them

Only so much patience

retrovlog one: A Taste of the Jam

Remainders, 1 and 2

Once upon a time in San Francisco

Snowprints

2008:

Thirty Year Old Jock-Thug

Claire's Bears

Fuzzy plant life

Additional tulips

Random Scan Sunday 1

Juicy Fruit: the survivalist's gum

Comic Book Guy's back room

Rhubarb!

To Be King Again

Humid!

Hibiscus

Cruise Night, round 1

Cruise Night, round 2

In motion

Art + Nature

Nap time

Autumn

Horizontal or vertical?

Milkweed

Fleeting

All but one

2009:

Winter waters

Interrupted sky

Splitting headache

Almost time...

Near bust

Also this time of year

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence

Unintentional odds

I'll take a bear in my Easter basket any day.

The moment I've been waiting for

20 self portraits from 1996, day 2

20 self portraits from 1996, day 3

20 self portraits from 1996, day 13

Making it official: coming out to my family

Haiku: Irony

It's short for Rococo. Obviously.

The unbuttoned twin, for Vahid

Before dinner...

After dinner...

Claire's Sublime Smoothies

Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. iv)

Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. xii)

2010:

Winter water drops

Sketchbook, page 11

BearWatch '10

Sketchbook, page 13

Final winter exhibits

Pick me up flowers

Light It Up, vol. 1

5 years of TTaT!

Sketchbook, page 17 + bonus sketch

G BIV flora

Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. xv)

Interrupted Golf: j'accuse le printemps!

Sketchbook, page 25

Airstrip

Sketchbook, page 29

It's OK to Zag.

4-H

Lakeside Splash

Trillium and self-portrait

Favorite Semi Blurs

Sketchbook, page 47: birthday edition

Translucent Trillium

Vinyl meets pollen

Observations in my parents' kitchen

Say "ah"

Sketchbook, page 58: Self-portrait

If you celebrate...

2011:

Icicle Branches

Biggest Bear Yet

Flame whoosh

I am a relaxation ninja.

Poppy profile

Bona fide tower

Would you like cheese on that?

The Power of Water, part 2

And then there was Wind...

Splotchy autumn colors

Wait!

2012:

Life of Art 2011: the year in review

Like a Ninja

Where Everybody Knows Your Name...

Temporal Transportation

The Pursuit of Moonrise

Are you ready to Jummmbbbllleee?

Note to self: vol. XVIII

Inner Badass

Super Moon

Unexpected

2013:

Life of Art 2012: the year in review

Blue Skies

Fleeting Diner Love

Fractional Storytelling #1

Fractional Storytelling #9

Fractional Storytelling #12

Fractional Storytelling #14

Longest haircut ever, part 1

Longest haircut ever, part 2

A Decade of Movies and Outings

Out, damned spot!

X-Ray Vision

A Glimpse of Summer

Flash, Crash, Rumble, Flash

Window A/C Tips

Left to my own devices...

Autumn

The Apex of Sociability

2014:

Life of Art 2013: the year in review

On Dinner and Dying

Favorite Fortune Ever

Happy Pride!

Rosco, I think his name's Rosco

Evening Stride

Evening Snack

Random Act

Japanese Painted Ferns

Nature's Javelin

Keep Your Head In The Game

Canopy Roads

Christmas Eve

2015:

Life of Art 2014: the year in review

Best Part of Winter

Things That Go Thump In The Night

Winter's Work

My First Haircut

I'm like a little chipmunk

Spring sighting?

10 Years of TTaT!

Triumphant Anxiety

Tiny Sheep!

Dusk Sighting

Perseids

Great Dane

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

Enthusiastic

Home-grown Carrot Round-up

Eye-catching Mid-autumn Sighting

Unintentionally Perfect

Thanksgiving Haiku VII

2016:

Klutzy Coordination

Inverted Linguistics

BearWatch is Go!

19 Polar Bears

Trigger Happy Startle Reflex

Eleven

Interrupted Art

The Next Twilight Bear

Sheep in Disguise

How am I not myself?

Tree Cutters' Haiku

Why you should watch Wynonna Earp plus bits of real life

A Recent Lottery Exchange

Inspired by Wynonna Earp to Try Something New

The Seen, The Heard, and The Unseen: a tale of Perseids

A Recent Basement Discovery

Rosco, officially

Sights from a day

Draw What's In Your Bag

Blind Contour Self Portrait

One of my happiest days this year

Bacon Mysteries

Today's Winter Sightings

2017:

Snow Oddity

Snow Falling

Winter Roof Ice

Introvert Meets Extrovert

Extrovert continued

Climbing

Note to Self, vol. XXVI

Things In Common

A Low Growl

Dinner conversation snippet

Making Mölkky History

Red Lion Amaryllis

On Voicelessness

Subconscious Earping

Finding Cimmerian Darkness and Stygian Gloom, or How I Spent a Beautiful Summer Day

Tales of the Black Badge

Adventures in Shaving

Winter Walk

2018:

You'll Never Guess

An Olympic Conversation

To be fair...

Spring Sightings

A photograph for its own sake

Happy Halloween!

In the Category of Odd

2019:

Furries

Time Warp

7:38

Walkabout

Fortunes

Today's Sighting

Barbecue Themes

Alternative Covers

Today's Sightings

Summer Sounds

Note to Self, vol. XXIX

2020:

Bundt v. Tube

Old Paperwork

Daffodil Buds

Spring Snow

Something big and black

Today's Many Sightings

Signs

The Sound of Music

Today's Sightings (and Hearing)

Featured What A Year Holiday Card on Sale!

Moondrop Grapes

Insomnia Adventures

2021:

Hope

Light

Dinner at the Lake

Speculation

Neighborly

Utility Pole

How to Recognize You Have Shingles (Anecdotal)

A Critical Thing to Know About Shingles

Snap

New (to me) Word

2022:

Caller ID

Tarts

Captain America

Handwritten Wordle Notes From Games Past

2023:

Note to Self, vol. XXXII

2024:

A Theme for 2024

Today's Sighting

He Exists


One year ago at TTaT: Wool

Freedom

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Let's do all we can to get them elected!

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Make sure you, your friends, and family are registered to vote and have a plan to vote early, by mail, or in person on November 5, 2024:

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Signal Boost

This is an excellent article by Elie Mystal and I highly recommend you give it a read! Beware the People Who Claim “America Isn’t Ready for a Black Woman President”

XIX, diciannove, 19, dix-neuf, nineteen!

Happy 19th blogiversary, TTaT!

Looking back through 19 years of writing, drawing, and photography, I've chosen one post (or occasionally two) from each year from my Best of TTaT list (you can also find it in the header under Highlights).

So... of 2862 published posts (including this one), these are currently my favorites:

Nineteen years of Taller Than Average Tales, ultra-condensed
2005: 
One Year Ago

2006: 
Tacos and the bear

2007: 
Formalwear Claire

2008: 
To Be King Again

2009: 
20 self portraits from 1996, day 2 and Haiku: Irony

2010:
Gettin' My Groove On... (vol. xv) and Light It Up, vol. 1

2011:
Biggest Bear Yet

2012:
Temporal Transportation

2013:
Fleeting Diner Love

2014:
Evening Stride

2015:
Best Part of Winter

2016:
Sheep in Disguise

2017: 
Snow Falling and On Voicelessness

2018:
Spring Sightings and In the Category of Odd

2019:
Furries

2020:
Something big and black

2021:
Light

2022:
Captain America

2023:
Note to Self, vol. XXXII

2024 (so far):
He Exists

Thanks to everyone who has read and commented over the years!

10 years ago on TTaT: Nove!

He Exists

 While waiting for an appointment, I heard a man check in.

He said his name and then spelled it.

Moriarty.

Today's Sighting

The curtains were closed across from me at dinner to help keep the heat in. Towards the end of dinner, I looked through to the living room where the curtains to the sliding glass doors were still open. 

"Wow, that's a lot," I said upon seeing everything covered with snow outside. There had been none when I started eating. 

Just an inch plus so far really but enough to fully coat the ground and line the tree branches with more still falling.