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Last week I was gone all week visiting my family, so I arranged with a kid at the barn to turn him out and clean his stall in my absence. On Friday, John decided to go over and check on Moose to see how he was, and turn him out so that he could stretch his legs. He then emailed →
Got leftovers? Try Thanksgiving Pie!
I promise this hasn't turned into a food blog. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, it's just not my thing. I *can* cook, but I'd rather go to the effort of taking pictures of food than actually cooking. :-) The one thing I love more than the Thanksgiving meal are days of Thanksgiving leftovers. No matter which butter →
Traditional day-after breakfast: Grant’s pumpkin pancakes
This is a special bonus post to participate in Sarah's Thanksgiving recipe exchange -- it seemed like fun, and come on, who doesn't like pancakes? :-) On Thanksgiving, family descends upon my parents' house for a couple of days of food, games, music, and vicious table soccer tournaments. Part of the tradition is for my cousin Grant to make pumpkin pancakes →
Thanksgiving 2010: warm, dry, and quite well-fed
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competing, arranging, roasting, glowing, sparkling, and serving were taken by my cousin Grant -- we swapped cameras for the afternoon and I lent him my 50mm lens, and he did a fantastic job! Thanks Grant!! :-) .
The sun and the rain and the appleseed
The title of this post comes from a table grace I learned backpacking in the Sierras with my church when I was a kid. I may have learned it before then, actually, but I associate it most strongly with backpacking, and I've been known to not just use it as a table grace, but whenever I'm feeling happy and blessed. →
A quarter of a million miles, baby
Yesterday I was supposed to drive from Sacramento to Vancouver, WA, where my parents live. I got up and started checking weather and road conditions, and decided to leave around noon, since Weather Channel said that the rain/snow was supposed to stop around 10AM, and I figured that by the time I got up to the CA/OR border (the highest →
The best field trip EVER–Google!!
So I know that today is Tuesday and thus this should be a Moose post, but between weather and time, I haven't had a chance to take any interesting pics. Besides, I took an awesome field trip yesterday, and I wanted to post pics of that!! So I'll try to get a Moose pic or two up tomorrow, but if →
Zoom zoom!!
Back in September, I bought two used lenses from the most wonderful lensrentals.com. I honestly can't plug this company enough -- I've rented from them numerous times, and now I've bought three pieces of equipment from them, and they have fantastic customer service and an excellent-quality product. Anyway, about a week after I bought the lenses from them (they rotate out →
Serendipity
I'm hoping this is my last post for a while of old pictures, and that beginning next Monday, I'll have my laptop back and be able to get some new material up. (HINT HINT, Josh!) In any case, this is another one from 2008 -- July 2008, this time. **** You know how sometimes despite your best ineptitude, something manages to go →
December 2008 – When I bought a macro lens and was trying to figure out how to use it
Either we're stuck in a time warp, or I still don't have my laptop back yet. I'll let you guess which one is correct. The good news is that I think the dinner that's owed me has worked its way up to five-star status at this point. :-D (If you're confused as to what I'm talking about, check out yesterday's →
Let’s hop in the time machine and take a ride back to November 2008
Remember those heady days, two whole years ago? Obama had just gotten elected, Ted "Bridge to Nowhere" Stevens lost his Senate seat, AIG got its second bailout while the stock market continued its meltdown, and Somali pirates terrorized the high seas. Ummm, yeah. Good times. Why are we remembering this? On Sunday evening, I lent my laptop to a desperate friend who's →
I’m apologizing in advance to John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I hosed off Moose on Saturday after our ride, then I turned him out to roll (since he likes doing that.) Then I took cameraphone pictures, then I wrote a really bad song parody about it. I blame my friend Tracie for getting Hey Jude stuck in my head. :-) Hey Moose (sung to the tune of "Hey Jude", by the →
No parking
This is actually a recycled picture. While I can't remember if I've run it on this blog before, it's one that I took about a year and a half ago of a sign on an old garage in an alley a few blocks from my old house. Why the recycle? Because it's the first picture I've sold on Etsy! Go →
Yesterday was a beautiful day for some portraits!
Yesterday afternoon I hopped on my bike and headed down to Old Sacramento to take some pictures of my coworker Mila and her family. You may remember (well, probably not, but I had to say it) that I took a few pictures of Mila and her daughter last month, but it was just two of them, and it wasn't anything →
November 10 on 10: Daily Grind
So I decided to do 10 on 10 this month, which is a photo challenge where, on the 10th day of each month, you take one picture each hour for ten consecutive hours. I got the idea from Kim's September post, but I opted to skip October because, while it was a weekend, I spent most of the day studying. →
Baby smooches
Yesterday at work, one of my coworkers who is out on maternity leave stopped by with her six-week-old son to say hi to everyone. I happened to have my camera with me (I've gotten into the habit lately of dragging it just about everywhere with me) so I popped upstairs to where she was chatting with some people to snap →
Mischief
Editor's note: we have Thursday off for Veteran's Day, and I'm planning on spending a good portion of the day working on pics. Not only am I hugely backlogged on post-processing, but I feel like my blog posts have been kind of boring as of late. So hopefully I'll have more interesting pics to share. I'm also not doing anything →
Goldilocks and the three cameras
Yesterday I spent most of the day down in Lathrop, playing assistant shooter for an event at the Harley Davidson dealership down there. This would have been a lot more fun if it hadn't been the ONE RAINY DAY IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS. And let's not even talk about Weather Channel's upcoming 10-day forecast, which predicts nothing but PURE →
Awaiting a jumping pile
I think it's about time to start collecting pretty leaves to use as decoration on my desk at work, for as long as they last. I love living somewhere with fall color.
Reflection fun
So on that run a couple of days ago when I took yesterday's pictures, I was crossing back over Tower Bridge when I glanced south and saw the huge backup of traffic coming into downtown Sacramento on Interstate 80. My first thought was, "OMG, SO GLAD I'm not stuck in that!!" My second thought was, "OMG, COOL REFLECTION!!" I have →
A little running music
I know I'm always looking for excuses to cop out of my morning runs, but on a beautiful morning like yesterday, stopping to take pictures wasn't so much an excuse as a necessity. I had my cameraphone with me (acting as a music player and route tracker)as I ran down through Old Sacramento and across the Tower Bridge to Raley →
If you keep making that face, it’s going to stick that way
I know this is two Moose posts in a week -- sorry about that! Sunday was special because it was Halloween, and today's Tuesday Mooseday. We'll return to our regular one-Moose-post-per-week schedule next week. Back when I had Moose for the first time, I used to call him my ADD horse, because it seemed like he had a short attention span →
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good pumpkin must be in want of a knife
I feel like I should apologize to Jane Austen for that absolutely atrocious pun in my post title, or at least to my mother, since I'm sure her groan will be audible from here, despite the almost 600 miles that separate us. But what fun is life (and why was I an English major for four years??) if I can't →