Miscellaneous

Logs

Photograph taken on Monday, August 29, 2011 by Henry
Logs

Logs

As I approach the ⅔ mark in my year-long project, I find that I’m not particularly motivated. It isn’t that I’m not enjoying taking pictures and I’ve managed to take pictures every day, I’m just not motivated to go looking for pictures lately. I’m not sure what to do about it. Life is like that sometimes — you just do what you are supposed to do even though you don’t really fell like it.

I did take a few pictures of the trees I’ve been cutting up in the back yard. These range in size up to about 10 inches in diameter. The larger pieces are yet to be cut, though. Still, it’s a start.

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Parking Lot Accident

Photograph taken on Thursday, August 25, 2011 by Henry
Parking Lot Accident

Parking Lot Accident

A friend and coworker asked me to take some pictures today of what happened to her car in the parking lot. Someone driving a Chevy Impala hit her car in the rear left corner hard enough to push it (violently) into another friend and coworker’s van. In this picture, you can see how far the car has been moved.

We know it was an Impala and we know the license number. One weird thing about all this is that the driver of the car parked it and walked away. He was watched from a window. He left the car right there. He didn’t leave a note or anything, just walked away. As I was leaving work he had returned and was changing his tire (which had blown in the accident). Yes, I took another picture then. Thanks for asking.

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Colored Chalk

Photograph taken on Thursday, July 28, 2011 by Henry
Colored Chalk

Colored Chalk

I was up in Baltimore this evening with Iris, taking a few more pictures for her. While waiting I noticed these pieces of colored chalk and thought they looked nice. I’m glad to see it’s not all white boards yet. I guess I’m old fashioned but I like chalk better. If nothing else, it reminds me of playing in a chalk pit in England as a boy (but then perhaps this should be “coloured chalk”).

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Auto Bulbs

Photograph taken on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 by Henry
Auto Bulbs

Auto Bulbs

We picked up our van from Eddie this afternoon and I took this picture of light bulbs at the shop.

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The Abell Building

Photograph taken on Monday, July 11, 2011 by Henry
The Abell Building

The Abell Building

I went up to Baltimore to take some pictures for Iris today. I can’t share those with you but I took this one of the Abell Building near the medical school. The Romanesque revival building was originally built in the 1870’s by Arunah Abell, the founder of the Baltimore Sun newspaper. It has recently been renovated and is an apartment building.

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Eat Mor Chikin

Photograph taken on Friday, July 08, 2011 by Henry
Eat Mor Chikin

Eat Mor Chikin

Dorothy dressed in a cow costume today and earned a free meal at the Germantown Chik-Fil-A. She also got to visit Lyla, which is at least as big a treat. Oh, and thank you, Megan for the use of the cow suit.

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Happy 235, U.S.A.

Photograph taken on Monday, July 04, 2011 by Henry
Happy 235, U.S.A.

Happy 235, U.S.A.

Days mixed with sorrow and joy are all too common, it seems. We did end the day with a bang, however, enjoying the fireworks from the 355 bridge over the railroad tracks in Gaithersburg with Rick, Melissa, Katie, and Maggie. A good view and a short half block walk from their house. Happy birthday to the good, old U.S. of A.

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Soap Bubble

Photograph taken on Sunday, May 01, 2011 by Henry
Soap Bubble

Soap Bubble

Lea was blowing soap bubbles outside church this morning. Have you ever tried using autofocus on bubbles. It doesn’t work so well. Also, they move out of focus pretty quickly. I didn’t do a whole lot better on manual. Still, this one turned out pretty well.

Does anyone else see a face in this?

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Marking My Keys

Photograph taken on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 by Henry
Marking My Keys

Marking My Keys

I’ve been meaning to mark my keys for a while but I actually did it this evening. Each of the steel rods in this set have a different letter or number. They are placed on the surface to be marked and whacked with the metal hammer. I hate having keys and not knowing what lock they fit. You feel like you can never throw them away, just in case.

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Bluebells

Photograph taken on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 by Henry
Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebells)

Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebells)

Cathy and I walked to Bluebell Island after work today. Unfortunately the rains last night raised the creek too high and we couldn’t get out onto it. I turned around when the water was up to the top of my thighs and I wasn’t even out in the fast water yet.

We enjoyed the flowers on the near bank, anyway, including bluebells (Mertensia virginica), Downy Yellow Violet (Viola pubescens), Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum), Cutleaf Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata), and Rue Anemone (Anemonella thalictroides).

This photo was taken with the camera on the ground looking up at the bluebells, which accounts for the white sky.

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Tap and Die

Photograph taken on Friday, April 08, 2011 by Henry
Tap and Die

Tap and Die

When I demonstrated simple machines to the second graders a week or so ago, they asked how screws are made. So, I got out my tap and die set to show them how threads can be cut, both on the outside of a screw or bolt and on the inside of a hole to receive it.

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Water Heater

Photograph taken on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by Henry
Water Heater

Water Heater

Yesterday I came home to a house with no hot water. Turns out there’s a leak in the tank. It’s not a big leak but with plumbing, a leak is a leak. Anyway, the water leaking out caused a short, blew the breaker. The plumber came today. This is the last I saw of the old water heater.

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Chionodoxa lucilae

Photograph taken on Sunday, March 27, 2011 by Henry
Chionodoxa lucilae

Chionodoxa lucilae

I thought I’d try some extreme close-up shots today. I can’t say they are award winning pictures but after all, the challenge was to post a picture a day, not to win any awards. Anyway, Chionodoxa, or glory-of-the-snow, is one of my favorite flowers.

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Wood Carving

Photograph taken on Friday, March 25, 2011 by Henry
Wood Carving

Wood Carving

This is a wood carving on my mother-in-law’s living room wall.

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Ripples

Photograph taken on Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Henry
Ripples

Ripples

I admit that I have a thing for ripples in water. I can just sit and watch them. I don’t really know what it is about them that I like, but I think they are cool.

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Rapid Oxidation of Wood

Photograph taken on Saturday, March 19, 2011 by Henry
Rapid Oxidation of Wood

Rapid Oxidation of Wood

Also known as combustion. Fire, if you will. My mom went with me to the farm this afternoon and we pruned some plum trees, cutting out black-knot (see Project 365 Extras). We burned the cut branches and this is from that fire.

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Flags at Half Staff

Photograph taken on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Henry
Flags at Half Staff

Flags at Half Staff

In honor of Frank Buckles flags were flown at half staff today. This one is at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. To all of our brave men and women in uniform, I thank you.

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Hat With a Hat

Photograph taken on Monday, March 14, 2011 by Henry
Hat With a Hat

Hat With a Hat

When she was in graduate school, my mom made this bust of her classmate and friend, Hat (and Hat made a bust of my mom). Anyway, she was using it to display one of my grandmother’s old hats. So, this is Hat With a Hat.

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Rain

Photograph taken on Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Henry
Rain

Rain

That’s pretty much the word for the day. It rained all day, sometimes softly, sometimes quite hard. This is the brake light of the car in front of me (stopped at a light — we’re not moving, don’t worry), through the rain on my windscreen. Need to turn on der drizzleflippen.

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Rushing Water

Photograph taken on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 by Henry
Rushing Water

Rushing Water

After the rain on Sunday the stream in the field next to my office was high. It was still high today (and the ground was very wet). I took quite a few pictures of moving water and like this one best.

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