Posted in Birds on Nov 30th, 2004 1 Comment »
The nuthatch is my all-time favorite bird. It eats insects like a woodpecker and has a long beak for digging them out of tree bark. It’s the only bird that can face down and walk down a tree (woodpeckers face up and hope down).
Posted in Birds on Nov 30th, 2004 No Comments »
A tufted titmouse eating at our feeder. He has a seed in his beak that he’s about to chug. When he gets a sunflower seed he takes it to a nearby branch, puts it between his toes, and uses his beak to open it. This one, however, he’s gonna chug.
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons on Nov 30th, 2004 1 Comment »
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Posted in Our Place, Photography on Nov 30th, 2004 2 Comments »
Every morning the sun comes up (duh) and every morning I fret the fact that right across the yard, on our side of the road, right in front of the amazing sunrise are power, phone, and coaxial cable lines. My new long lens will get through them but this morning, yet again, I was too [...]
Posted in Our Place on Nov 29th, 2004 No Comments »
There was a little black spider on my desk just now. Very fast and he shot a thread from the tip of a blue marker to a scissors, then pulled himself over (quickly). I tried although had a hard time getting him into focus as he was quite ADD.
Posted in Our Place, Photography on Nov 29th, 2004 No Comments »
The moon was amazing this morning so I rushed downstairs and put the long lens on the camera and took some pictures before it “set” over the hill behind our house. Idiot me, forgot the tripod. Tomorrow morning I’ll try to repeat this shot with a tripod and it will be better. Still, this long [...]
Posted in Movies on Nov 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Lots of Robots is an animated film project done by one person: Andy Murdoch. The web site, while scattered, has many quicktime shorts and lots of background info on the making of this labor of love animated movie. This is amazing stuff, especially when you consider it was done in his house, not at ILM [...]
Posted in Photography on Nov 26th, 2004 No Comments »
David Darling’s deck has a nice ornamental Buddha statue on it (a bird bath) and I gave up trying to catch a chickadee on its head and just took its picture. I like this Buddha a lot, not quite as paunchy as our garden Buddha and much more serious. Our Buddha is much more of [...]
Posted in Photography on Nov 26th, 2004 No Comments »
I noticed a number of beaded up water droplets on my place mat at Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, the perfect opportunity to test out the new 100mm macro lens. This is cropped an enormous amount but hey, with 6 megapixels you can crop down to quarks I think. Is this an example of a smaller universe [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 25th, 2004 No Comments »
I was in Richard Courtney’s office in London and could not help notice his method for tying up the string that controlled his blinds. Rather than shoot the wonderful London landscape right outside the window, I decided to focus on the string, it being a better representation of how my brain felt at that moment, [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 25th, 2004 No Comments »
I was just in the UK offices of AlphaSmart, Inc. and saw this huge box of t-shirts just itching to be photographed. I can’t help myself when I see pattern and now that I have a nice camera I seem to be seeing it more and more.
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 3 Comments »
This is looking west of Nice toward Cannes although it’s around the corner. That coastline is absolutely amazing: water, sky, houses, hills behind. Oh my.
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 1 Comment »
This doorknob was exterior and in the center of a door leading into a big, old, mansion on a narrow road in Nice. The patina on the door, the size and shape of the knob. Man, someone with a camera could have fun here.
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
In the evenings we walked all over the old port part of Nice and the little shops and restaurants tucked into these alleyways were amazing. The people watching was great too. These streets or walkways were quite narrow and this building and shop was like a mini-Flatiron building. This evening (when this was taken) we [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 17 Comments »
There are Smart Cars all over both London and Nice. Here’s one parked in a place that even a Harley would not fit well in outside the Acropolis convention center in Nice, France. Most of them are colorful, this black one was unusual. I doubt this car will ever be allowed on the roads in [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
We drove south and east toward Monaco and Italy and as we drove the houses got bigger and fancier. This part of the French Riviera is some of the most exclusive real estate on earth. The marina in this bay where the cruise ship is anchored has boats in it that can traverse the Atlantic, [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
The corner outside the convention center (the Acropolis) where the ECIS (European Conference of International Schools) Conference was going on. We were in Nice exhibiting at the conference and holding a breakfast reception. For me, it was cultural whiplash and here’s an example: I met and talked at length with the head of grade 5 [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
We checked into our hotel in Nice and I had not showered since leaving the US so Dirk, Richard, and Jonathan gave me some time to get my act together while they went down to the little bar/restaurant in the bottom of the hotel and ordered up some beer.The beer came with a dish of [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 22nd, 2004 7 Comments »
I’m in the London offices of AlphaSmart, Inc. and outside the window, across a parking lot is a “pile” or “row” or “gaggle” of blue shipping containers. All blue, all stacked up. some rectangular trailer-truck size and some cubes half that size sitting on top. What a pattern. I’m gonna get a load of crap [...]
Posted in Places on Nov 21st, 2004 3 Comments »
I was just in Nice, France staying at a wonderful little hotel on the hill behind the city. I opened the terrace door my first morning there and I could immediately tell why Matisse hung out there; the light and air and sea… wow. So, this is looking south out over the Mediterranean Sea toward [...]
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