but it’s ironic (in an Alanis Morisette (sp?) kinda way) how I only have time to update this blog when I’ve been doing nothing, but then a week like this comes along and you get 0 posts despite there being so much news I don’t know where to start.
I’m off to bed…
A 20 minute walk with the dog becomes a lot more interesting when you’re packing your cheap and cheerful fisheye lens.
I was happy with how this one turned out. It’s a weeping willow, looking straight up, and zooming out while taking the shot.
Still cresting on the photos from the weekend. Hope to get out soon and take some proper ones of the increasingly vehement Oregonian winter.
While backing up this years photos I noticed I hadn’t put this one in my phlog yet. It’s one of a series of waterfalls out down the Washington River way, and is due for a revisit very soon cos it’s been bucketing down of late.
I was desperately trying to come up with a non-clichéd shot here. But failed… Gorgeous views without a doubt, nothing you can’t see on Google Earth mind.
I tried to give this a view-from-a-zeppelin type feel, or possibly from Lando’s Cloud City… There’ll be some more Seattle pix coming soon. Am truly knackered now.
I’m well impressed with Seattle. We had a gorgeous day yesterday and it weren’t raining or nuffink, you could see Mt Rainier and there was lots of atmosphere… we’ve been eating out, trying local microbrews and catching up with Liz and Josh. Hope the pictures turn out alright. You can probably safely skip the hidden Seattle underground tour, but everything else was grand. We’re going to grab some breakfast, go up the Space Needle then home (only 3 hrs drive) to relieve Sudarat of her Atticus-looking-after duties.
Even had Starbucks at 7am this morning for the full experience. Saludos!
This photo’s from November 2nd or thereabouts. I’ve not had a chance to go out and take new pictures in the last few days. Things have suddenly got very busy. I shall try and keep this blog going again but I’m going to take the weekend off. Hopefully very soon I’ll be trying to fit pictures of Seattle into the carefully made categories of this here phlog.
Also watch out for the about pages which now feature ads for Duaflex cameras… Have a great weekend, I’ll post again on Monday.
This photo unites three of my photographic obsessions right now. It features a “Through the Viewfinder” of a brownie starflex camera, Autumn colours and a chameleon car.
Pumpkins for Obama. Not a brilliant shot… but topical 😀
I wish this thing would go faster.
I can’t stand to watch, but shall have to. It’s a worrying start (4.50pm Pacific)
Sita was looking over her ballot forms last night and realised she had a ‘postal vote’. We tried ringing the council to find out what to do but it was closed. Turns out that everyone in Oregon gets a postal vote, so you can fill out the thing in the comfort of your own home, seal the envelope and drop it in a specially provided box down town. You don’t even have to wait till election day. Seems like a very good way of doing things to me.
I have to wonder if anyone got confused with the Ballet Center half a block away. I was about to head off there when I realised it was ‘et’ not ‘ot’.
Obviously, I hope to any deity listening that McCain-Palin are roundly sent packing and that the Califas Gay Marriage laws aren’t repealed. Shall be watching the Daily Show coverage and CNN this evening with DrSita, DrSudarat and DrMichelle. Here’s a post from 4 years ago. Jesse, as far as I know, is still a Massachusetts resident.
I’m off to watch ‘democracy’ in action with DrSita in a mo…
Just saw this meme in Flash’s blog:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
One question almost every dog owner asks is, “How do I keep my dog from jumping up on people?”
From Dog Training for Dummies. (page 56 was blank, this was 57)
Shall post more today…
We’re coming to the end of autumn now. The clocks have changed, it’s dark by 5, most of the leaves are on the ground, it’s nippy, and it’s raining. I’m glad I made this leafy spectrum a few short weeks ago.
I was hanging out in the antiques shops again this afternoon, I saw a load of cameras priced between 15 and 40 bucks and was sorely tempted. I reckon I should take at least another couple of hundred photos with my present cameras before I start adding to the collection. That said, I’m already thinking of trading my digital camera in for one with a higher resolution, because once I’ve cropped to the size of the viewfinder it’s probably only 2 megapixels, max and I’m not sure how they’ll look when printed.
“Dipsacus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Dipsacaceae. The members of this genus are known as teasel or teazel or teazle.” says Wikipedia. I’d just like to add Teasle to the list of accepted spellings.
