Red maple in Autumn
f/l: 82mm (macro); exposure: 1/320s, f/6, ISO 200; NEF file processed with Capture NX
Tag: photography
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Katie
Our visitor, Katie beagle
f/l: 82mm (macro); exposure: 1/60s, f/6, ISO 200; NEF file processed with Capture NX
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
That's It... I'm Starting a New Institute...
...just so I can get grants. I'm thinking of calling it the "Institute for the Study of the Incredibly Apparent" so that I can get grants to study stuff like this: Earth-Shattering Study: Men Like Good-Looking Women
From later in the article: "The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the more desirable guys."
Who could have seen that one coming? I'll bet the scientists in question are busily working on their next grant application involving "younger, hotter women with older, richer men."
Ain't science grand?
From later in the article: "The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the more desirable guys."
Who could have seen that one coming? I'll bet the scientists in question are busily working on their next grant application involving "younger, hotter women with older, richer men."
Ain't science grand?
Sunday, August 19, 2007
The Lovely Missus Goes 5-for-5
The Montgomery County Maryland Agricultural Fair finished this past Saturday. I am very pleased to announce that My Lovely Bride won a ribbon in each of the 5 baked goods categories she entered. Yes, yes I am a very lucky guy.
This was the first fair she ever entered anything and is already plotting her strategy for next year.
This was the first fair she ever entered anything and is already plotting her strategy for next year.
Mouse on the Sofa, Enjoying the Sunny Spot
Taken by the Lovely Misses with the Canon 20D.
Scaled and touched up with The Gimp.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Around the buddleia
Hummingbird clearwing (Hemaris thysbe)
fl: 82mm (macro); exp.: 1/1000s, f/6, ISO 200; NEF file processed with the Gimp 2.2
This Monarch is a little tattered but still taking care of business...
fl: 82mm (macro); exp.: 1/640s, f/6, ISO 200; NEF image processed with the Gimp 2.2
Tag: photography
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Saturday, August 04, 2007
New living room grouping with Isobell
Our other cat, Isobell, has adopted the center cushion on the new sofa as her own. Go ahead, try to sit there. I dare you.
Update: Now with Contrast!
Mouse One Month Ago and Today
Taken about a month ago. The fur was just starting to cover over where they had shaved her.
Taken today. Her fur is starting to fill in nicely.
Taken today. Her fur is starting to fill in nicely.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Mouse
This is Mouse, our 10-and-a-half year old chocolate mitted ragdoll. She was diagnosed with a sarcoma that developed at the site of her rabies vaccination. We don't know how long she has left, but so far she's been doing pretty well.
(Canon 20D, cropped and scaled with The GIMP)
UPDATE: Well, it's almost 4 months since the initial post, and now just over 2 months since we went through with the surgery to amputate her cancerous right rear leg. It was disarticulated at the hip and she hasn't had any trouble... well if you don't count the 'bed sore' on her OTHER side. That still has about a 0.5 cm x 0.5 cm piece of scab + matted fur that is tenaciously hanging on.
Mouse gets around in fine tripod fashion: front left, front right, hop. Her back left leg is now--more or less--her back center leg, but it works better than it sounds.
The cancer was stage 3, so there is still work for the folks at the VCA Referral Clinic: every 6 months we need to take her in for a chest x-ray to see if anything has spread to her lungs. Thus far her incision line is clean, and that is very good news. At the rate her tumor was growing it would be positively ginormous by now. Similarly, there have been no signs of breathing difficulties.
After a heart-to-heart with her, My Lovely Wife announced that there was an agreement in principle for 10 more years. Let's hope.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Behold the rudbeckias
Exposure: 40mm, f/4.5, 1/50s, ISO 200; NEF file processed with the GIMP
There is a purple coneflower peaking 'round the back. Can you see it?
Monday, July 30, 2007
Thoughts On Crusader Lutheran Chuch....
...as filtered through the mind's eye of one of those Old School Lutheran Church ladies.
"Crusader? Uff! What sort of name is that? Oh, Shepherd of the Hills, or Shepherd of the Prairie or Shepherd of the Valley: those are good names! Even Trinity or Prince of Peace! But what kind of hotdish can you expect to get at Crusader Lutheran Church anyway? Uff da!
UPDATE: My dear wife says I forgot "Good Shepherd". And so I did.
"Crusader? Uff! What sort of name is that? Oh, Shepherd of the Hills, or Shepherd of the Prairie or Shepherd of the Valley: those are good names! Even Trinity or Prince of Peace! But what kind of hotdish can you expect to get at Crusader Lutheran Church anyway? Uff da!
UPDATE: My dear wife says I forgot "Good Shepherd". And so I did.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
I'm wit' Mitt
Mitt's catch phrase doesn't have the same cachet as "I like Ike." Sort of like it's coming from the lower east side.
Sigh...
Sigh...
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Robin at the bath
Nikon D70, FL:180mm, Shutter: 1/500s-f/5.6, Processed with the GIMP 2.2
Tag: photography
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Red Azalea
A friend of ours, a Maryland native, said that no self-respecting Marylander has a yard without an azalea. Well, after a year in the house, we are finally self-respecting.
Canon D20, scaled with The Gimp
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