Miscellaneous

Map Mosaic

I printed this map for a co-worker last week. In all there were 150 pages, although the pages that were only ocean were left off. She spent considerable time putting them together and even more time going over each marked location, categorizing them, grouping them, and figuring out what she needed to figure out.

Wallpaper

We started scraping wallpaper in Dorothy’s room last weekend. Actually, we started a long time ago but then didn’t work on it forever and we started again last weekend. We’re making good progress, as evidenced by the wallpaper that needs to be cleaned up.

No. 1, The Larch

Let’s face it, you’re either going to get this or you aren’t. If you do, you may find it hilarious. If not, well, then you almost certainly will not. This is an original drawing by Kendra on the white board in our kitchen. Spoiler alert! No. 3 is the Horse Chestnut.

Major Simone Chhutney

Many of us are familiar with Major Grey Mango Chutney. Well, who knew they made this? Major Simone Chhutney!

Ice

It’s gotten cold again and was a beautiful winter day today. Cathy and I went for a walk in the neighborhood this afternoon. We talked mostly about the things that are bugging us at work, but you certainly don’t want to hear about that. I stopped a few times to take pictures of ice.

Contemplating A Navel

I had to run a few errands at lunchtime today and when I went out to my car, there was this orange in the parking lot, just sitting there. Contemplating its navel, I assume.

I took Dorothy to her art class today. I enjoyed a little time at nearby Montpelier Mansion. I haven’t actually been inside but I’ve walked around the grounds a few times. Here is a sampling of the pictures I took.

Late Christmas Lights

Most of the Christmas lights in our neighborhood are down. There are still some white lights out but all the elaborate decorations have come down, with the exception of one house that still has them all up. I don’t mind, actually. Lights don’t really convey Christmas to me as much as winter, anyway, so what’s the big deal. This yard has lots of color and they are pretty intense, bright colors, too.

Rainy Night

Cold and snowy on Monday, a pretty beautiful day on Tuesday, then rainy and gray on Wednesday. Typical winter weather, actually. The rain was light most of the day but it started raining pretty hard in the evening.

Stop

I didn’t have a chance to get out and take any pictures today so when Dorothy went out to run an errand this evening I brought my camera along. We stopped on the way home to take a few photos and this is our favorite.

Snow

We had our first real snowfall of 2012 today. It snowed quite hard back on the third but none of that really stuck on the ground. This evening the snow covered grassy areas and certainly made the rush hour traffic a little crazier, as the slightest suggestion of snow tends to do here. We thought about going to the grocery store to buy enough food for a week. Then we decided we would try to survive until tomorrow on what we already have. Tomorrow it’s forecast to be in the fifties, so our mini-winter is destined to be short-lived.

Nagoya Guitar

This is my old Nagoya guitar. I don’t play it much any more but it gets use when some of Dorothy’s friends pick it up.

Teeth

It has finally gotten a bit chilly here. The temperature was in the teens, although the upper teens, yesterday morning.

At lunch time I went out to the empty lot next to my office building and came across a jawbone with a few teeth still in it.

Fire

Our Christmas tree being returned to its constituent parts.

International Banking

Dorothy and I were in Baltimore this afternoon with friends Nancy and Lyla and I took this, my penultimate Project 365 photo, of the BB&T building reflected in a window with flags behind the window superimposed on the building. Obviously I flipped the photo to make the text the right way round.

Oh, I don’t know, maybe I’ll call it quits and stop now. I don’t know that I can take any more pictures…

Gannets at Cape St. Mary's

Welcome to my new blog. I’ve been online in one way or another for quite a while but not this publicly before. I’m just finishing a Project 365 on Facebook where I post a photo a day for a year. I don’t plan to continue that, at least not in a formal way, but I do expect to continue taking pictures. This blog is where I’ll be posting them. If you’re a friend from Facebook, I look forward to keeping up the conversation. If you found me some other way, then you are welcome, also.

I can’t promise that this will only be photographs but that’s likely to be the emphasis. I’m not a word person, in general, although I do like reading. I’ve been known, on rare occasions, to be able to explain things using words but in general, if I have anything original to say, it will be an image.

I expect to be changing the banner image from time to time, as well. Currently the image is one I took in 1993 at Cape St. Mary’s in Newfoundland, Canada. Cathy and I enjoyed an afternoon there watching these gannets as well as auks and guillemots and the occasional razorbill.

Bus Stop After the Rain

As the sun set this evening, a break in the clouds opened up and it lit, among other things, this bus shelter.

Rain

I like dreary days. Colors are more intense (not that there is much color in this photo). The sound of the rain is so relaxing. If you don’t like it, don’t despair, the sun will shine again.

Of course, I would have enjoyed it more out of my office today but it’s been busy at work of late. I’m starting to feel it.

Christmas Lights

These are either Christmas lights or a Euler diagram for some complex set of relationships. I’m not sure which.