Posted in Food, Objects, Our Place on Nov 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Went up to Averill Farm to buy apples, pears, and quinces for our apple pie baking marathon this weekend. Figured I’d get them now so I could photograph them before they get "pied." Got them all washed and lined up regiment style for their group picture.
These bosc pears are maybe the most photographed [...]
Posted in Food, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Finally, on Halloween, I picked the pumpkins in our "patch" and lined them up. We have 30 pumpkins and 15 turban squashes. None of the pumpkins are "state fair champions" but they’ll be nice pumpkin pies and squash for our one experiment with Afghan cooking: a chili like dish over pumpkin and before [...]
Posted in Objects, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2007 5 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. New 85L arrives, stop everything, put lens on camera, hunt for something to shoot. Pulled this out of recycling bucket. Ah… got my bokeh fix for the day. Back to work raking and blowing leaves…
Posted in Food, Our Place on Oct 28th, 2007 13 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We’ve been buying bread from a bakery in the next town for years, and it’s great stuff. However, it’s expensive as they use all organic and high-end ingredients. They recently raised their already high prices, and that was the tipping point for me. I got my wife to teach me how to bake [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut.There are many small volunteer sumac plants around our place and one really can’t see them blended in with the other foliage in the summer but in fall, they turn brilliant red. I’m allergic to poison sumac; nice that these plants are not only beautiful but also “hypoallergenic.”
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Jul 11th, 2007 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We were watching the NewsHour and I kept hearing this noise from the backyard but didn’t pay it much attention as it was raining out and the rain makes noises on gutters and things around here.
Then I stood up and this is what I saw, exactly this view at this scale. I yelled [...]
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Jul 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This old dude sat in this one place for about two hours. He rotated a bit as he attempted to catch dragonflies as they flew by but he never swam or hopped away. When he turned towards Gary and I we got a kick out of how wide his mouth was and every [...]
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Jul 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our pond is less pond and more mud pit these days which is heaven for the frogs and other animals living in it. This little dude sat like this for fifteen minutes until a small dragonfly got too close, then his long tongue shot out and he caught and ate it. I felt [...]
Posted in Our Place, People, Photo Gear on May 22nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A few weeks ago my good friend Mamen (left) came to visit and we had a great time. After we dropped by Mecca (B&H Photo) in New York, she decided that the Canon EF 70-200 f/4 IS L was the lens for her. It just so happened that Scott, one of our UPS [...]
Posted in Creatures, Our Place on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The most beautiful great blue heron I’ve ever seen landed on our pond today. He had a black pony tail and a "beard" of feathers in front the likes of which I’ve not seen in herons that land on our pond and he was big as herons go. He circled the pond on [...]
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. As some of you who live on the East Coast of the US know, we’ve all had a few days of intense rain. This type of storm is called a "nor’easter" because the storm moves from south and west to north and east (diagonally up the coast) and as it reaches New England [...]
Posted in Cats, Our Place on Mar 27th, 2007 8 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our cat, "The Kitty" turned 17 today and given what this cat has been through as a "professional cat" living to 17 is akin to one of us living to 100. Here’s the back story I wrote on The Kitty on her 16th birthday.
The Kitty has had arthritis for a few years and [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Mar 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Anne was eating breakfast the other day and called me to watch our local, young hawk eating its breakfast too. Being a "country girl" she was able to continue eating as the hawk dismembered the dove and pieces went flying.
This was shot through a gas-filled, double-paned window and cropped.
Posted in Landscape, Our Place on Feb 16th, 2007 9 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I took a break from clearing the driveway to walk across the stream and behind the pond to take a picture of the hill behind our house. Our cat used to hunt on this hill and stayed out here for days before we saw her again, taking shelter in caves created by rocks. [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jan 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The trees in our backyard are shrouded in fog again and now that I’ve realized the photographic possibilities fog offers I’m delighted. Fog both softens a scene and creates a limited color palette which appeals to me in the same way Chinese landscape watercolor washes do. I think I could become a "fog [...]
Posted in Food, Our Place on Dec 31st, 2006 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Anne and I will undoubtedly be asleep when the clock strikes midnight here tonight. We’re new year’s eve duds for sure. We had a wonderful dinner with friends here in Warren last night and that, for us, will be it.
However, I’d like to toast all of you and wish you a happy new [...]
Posted in Our Place on Dec 22nd, 2006 7 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We celebrate Chanukah and Christmas and Anne and I wish all of you a happy Holiday season.
We’re not signing off for the weekend, just thought we’d let you know we’re already celebrating, eating too much and having fun.
Posted in Food, Our Place on Dec 19th, 2006 3 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife Anne has been making this holiday bread for over thirty years. The tradition is to have it with a sugary icing and lots of butter on Christmas morning. I have to say, even though Christmas isn’t my holiday, I look forward to this bread which is not quite as eggy as [...]
Posted in Creatures, Macintosh, Objects, Our Place on Dec 18th, 2006 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A few days ago, early in the morning, while walking with coffee in one hand and this computer in the other, I tripped over a box and went flying. You can read the gory details here if you like.
I back up my computer every day with a great product called SuperDuper! and I [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Our Place on Dec 17th, 2006 22 Comments »
Two mornings ago while carrying a cup of coffee and my relatively new 15″ MacBook Pro, I tripped over a box and went flying. I wish someone had been there to take a picture as I know it was a spectacular fall. The sound of the computer hitting the wooden floor was so loud that [...]
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