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I had just pulled into the parking lot at work when I noticed this maple seed stuck to my car window, and it got me thinking. The seeds are designed for the wind to carry them. It made me think of how some seeds are designed for the wind to carry them, others for birds to carry them, others to →
You all know the tune, even if you don’t know the name
The following post was John's idea. Ok, the pictures were my idea, but when John saw them, he got the idea for the post itself. First, go click on this link (it'll open a new window), and click play on the video. Close your eyes for a moment. Let it wash over you. Open them for a minute and look at the →
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 →
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999
I hope I managed to infect at least one of you with a Prince earworm via my post title. :-) Yesterday morning I was getting ready for work, and in my typical ADD fashion suddenly decided it was time to copy 11 years worth of pictures off of an external hard drive and onto my laptop so that I could take →
Hanging out at the park
I live three blocks from one of the awesomest parks ever--it has a duck pond and a library and everything. I totally love it--it's what made me want to move to my neighborhood in the first place. So I was there last week hanging out and taking pictures, and stumbled upon this guy, who ever-so-nicely offered to pose for me for →
The peace of wild things
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with →
Ladybug!
The other day after I finished taking pictures of the CDF CalFire planes, I went to get back into my truck and was distracted by movement and color in the dirt. Now, I tend to get distracted fairly easily (and those of you who know me are going, "Gee, ya THINK?") so within a minute (and after a quick lens →
Turkeys!
On my way home from work on Friday, I saw a large flock of turkeys. I just happened to have my camera with me (although not the telephoto lens, darn it) so I stopped to take some pictures, of course. . .
One of the reasons I love Sacramento
One of the reasons I love Sacramento is the relative proximity of everything. We're about an hour and a half from Tahoe/snow/skiing, an hour an a half (ok, or longer depending on traffic) from San Francisco and the coast, we're a decently large city but can easily get to the Bay Area if we want a larger city, and we're →
Yolo Wildlife Area
Yolo Wildlife Area, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Went out this morning and took pictures of the sunrise and the birds at the Yolo Wildlife Area about 10 miles from my house. I'm nowhere near being done going through everything, but when they come off my camera looking like this, I know it's going to be a good day. Click on the picture →