Today

Seven years ago.

Photos from Kate’s graduation ceremony, yesterday, at Merrimack High School.

Mike,

Yesterday evening we drove back from a trip to the Pike’s Peak area, and the sunset was so spectacular I nearly drove over the median strip several times trying to get a glimpse of it. If my loving wife hadn’t prevented me, i would have shot pictures out of the window while I was driving (like someone we all know and love, who will remain nameless). Anyway I was so energized by that sunset, I tried to get a good photo of a less spectacular post-sunset scene tonight from our front lawn. The clouds were not nearly so accommodating, but the crescent moon and Venus (below the moon at about 4 o’clock) hung out nicely for us over a maroon cloud deck.

Now that I know this camera can do this kind of work, I’ll try some more in future evenings.

Ed/rakkity

Details:

Dimensions: 1813 x 1406 (after cropping)

Device make: Nikon

Device model: E4200

Color space; RGB

Focal length: 23.4

Exposure time: 1

Support: convenient tree

     

Joe, with Matt’s encouragement,  decided to trim some branches off the tree in the yard near the driveway.  Use a ladder?  Are you kidding?  Wait until daylight? Why?

  

My former friends in Evansville sent me this card.

Open it and there is a single word inside – old. The old guy skipped work on his birthday and walked around Castle Hill and adjoining Crane Beach.

Photo Gallery

View of the ocean from the end of the Crane Estate lawn.

…to a nearby blog:

-o- Carved in Stone — In Colorado, stone is as cheap as dirt (maybe cheaper). Hence many signs are literally carved in stone.

-o- Boulder Murals — There aren’t any Grohes in Boulder, but the local artistes and graffites have created some nice outdoor art.

-o- Funny Business — It’s my impression that Boulder has an unusually large percentage of curiously named businesses.

–rakkity

…is the noise birds make.

I rode home from school the other day (which includes a some mile stretch along a causeway designed to be a seabird habitat) and thought of you as I missed the first picture of mating Long Necked White Birds in flight (Snowy egrets, I believe) and thought ‘if only I’d taken the camera out of my bag and put it in my back pocket like I usually do’ . I didn’t stop to take action on the thought and moments later saw a big blue bird (great blue heron I presume) taking flight as I thought ‘if only I’d taken the camera out of my bag and put it in my back pocket after the last picture I missed’. This time I put the camera in the ready position and had a quite uneventful rest of the ride home.

The other day i thought I was going to be attacked by a dingo, but then it scampered off into suburban backyards to eat baby kittens. The second one’s from the train in the eastern bay and probably needs to be cropped. The last one is a where’s waldo type game.

   

  Travis

Goose and I drove into Applewood today and spotted a Great Blue Heron. I’ve many standing shots of the bird, but I’ve been trying hard to get a full wing spread photo to show rakkity just how big these birds are. At my prompt, Goose jumped out of the truck and yelled really scary things at the bird so he’d take flight. As Goose yelled, I snapped the shot above, and to add context Goose spread his six foot wing span kneeling in about the same spot as the heron.

Goose and I rented a forty foot ladder today so he could safely reach the front peak of the house. There’s a bit of bounce to the thing as you climb up it, but I don’t think there’s a chance it’ll snap in half.

Robby’s new look.

Joe’s bunny.

All kinds of progress.

A friend of a friend’s granddaughter came a visiting and Matt thought what a perfect excuse for a party. All photos by Matthew.