Photoblog Archives
February 13, 2007
March 22, 2007
Photo Gallery
I now have a photo gallery for you to browse. It's not extensive, yet, but I am going to start carrying around our old camera and plan on taking a bunch of pictures with it. If you want to see the fruits of my labor though you'll have to leave me a comment/shoot me an email as I promised my wife that I'd password protect this mug. I give you a login you see my pretty pictures.
April 24, 2007
New Pics Up
Check out my gallery for some new pictures (signon required).
May 15, 2007
Pictures and Tumbling
New pictures under the gallery!
Also I'm playing with a tumblr blog aka tumblelog. It's a place to dump my links and play with mobile blogging/cell phone snaps.
You'll find links to both up top, in addition to a link to my Blogtalk Radio host page.
June 27, 2007
New Pictures...
I put up a few new pics in Nature and Family on ye olde Gallery. Click the picture to be taken there, but expect to have to log in.
July 5, 2007
July 4th Pictures
No these aren't pictures of fireworks. As our son is a bit skittish of loud noises we opted for the park and a nature walk. So here are a couple of good nature photographs I'm proud of. Hit my gallery (link above) for new pictures of the kiddos as well.
July 10, 2007
This is Cinnamon. Someone dumped her on the side of the road (PEOPLE SUCK). We are "fostering" her. What this no doubt means is provided there is no microchip we'll have a new dog. Current animalia count:
Chickens - 5
Cats - 1
Dogs - 4 (including my mother in law's who we're keeping for a few weeks)
Hermit Crab - 1
Human beings - 5
July 16, 2007
My Office...
What's yours look like?
August 23, 2007
Beach Pictures
Here are some pics of my beach trip...
September 5, 2007
Pilot Mountain Trip
Here are some pictures from our weekend mountain trip.
September 27, 2007
That's Not a Moon
Oh wait, yeah it is and it's gorgeous.
No single exposure can easily capture faint stars along with the subtle colors of the Moon. But this dramatic composite view highlights both. The mosaic digitally stitches together fifteen carefully exposed high resolution images of a bright, gibbous Moon and a representative background star field. The fascinating color differences along the lunar surface are real, though highly exaggerated, corresponding to regions with different chemical compositions.
October 24, 2007
Okie Pics
These are some pics that Pat took during my stay. Most of them involve Fuji, a most awesome sushi bar.
November 26, 2007
Thanksgiving
So this Thanksgiving was pretty awesome. There was of course the food:
And so much more.
December 3, 2007
Canada Picture-blog
So a few of the pictures I took actually looked pretty decent and I figured I'd share.
January 1, 2008
New Years Day
Well it's the start of another year. This one was good and some time this week I'll do a little blog year in review hitting the "highlights" of what I've written and share with you what, if anything, I've learned. In the meantime things are settling out. We've made room for the new and gotten rid of quite a bit of the old. In spite of a late night last night (babysitting for Leigh and Bladerunner/Twilight Zone marathon watching for me) we've managed to get quite a lot done.
I go back to work tomorrow wondering where all the time went and looking forward to a busy, but hopefully far less hectic year there. I don't really believe in resolutions. Naturally I'd like to lose a few pounds, edit that first novel and write the second, watch less TV and all that jazz and I think I will, but I always seemed to break my resolutions within the first few days of January, so I don't see the point. So I look forward to the New Year and whatever it brings.
All in all though I think that the following picture well sums up how I feel right now about the whole thing.
January 14, 2008
Morning Sky
Took this picture of a beautiful morning sky with my new phone. Not half bad.
January 17, 2008
Blizzard of '08
We got some snow. It wasn't much but it was pretty while it lasted.
Click for embigganage.
February 4, 2008
Spider Shelter
Some time back I found the photoblog Insect Picture of the Day. David Brady is big on user submissions so I sent a few his way. He posted my first submission on Friday, Spider Shelter. Check it out and if you have any good buggy pics send them to him.
February 9, 2008
Pages/Preview Fun
I made this in about two minutes from a stock photo of Earth with Pages and Preview on my Mac. Man I love this thing.
February 14, 2008
Snowy Surprise
We got a surprise snow last night and best of all some of it stuck around.
March 11, 2008
Picnik
So if you aren't using picnik in conjunction with your blog/flickr then you might be a loser or just cheap. Well now most of its functions are free and you can do all kinds of cool things (that honestly you'd be able to do ten times better with GIMP/Photoshop, but hey this is free AND web-based). I created this mock up of a polaroid. I tried starting with a picture of me, but apparently when a picture of me is taken a sort of vampire effect happens. Oh something shows up alright, but it's not pretty.
Before:
After:
March 16, 2008
Pilot Mountain
Leigh and I journeyed to nearby Pilot Mountain to partake of the local scenery and to get away from our three lovely children. It was three days well spent.
March 22, 2008
Farm Pictures
We went ot a local farm where we pick up black market dairy products and naturally I took the camera. Here are the results.
March 27, 2008
Bee-ootiful Picture
Check out Insect Picture of the Day for a picture that yours truly took!
April 2, 2008
Wild Goose
One of the geese near work is apparently protecting their nest. That happens to be in the breezeway between our buildings. We've had to erect a barricade to keep people/geese safe.
April 3, 2008
Flutterby Butterfly
My seven year old daughter did this. Naturally I'm somewhat proud. She did have lines to go by, but she mixed oil pants on a palette and applied them with a knife. I see pictures of her, particularly her most recent school picture and she looks so (expletive deleted) grown up. Seeing her talents like this (first time she's picked up oils) serves as another reminder that she won't be in this house much longer. Soon she'll fly off on her own. Not as fragile as a butterfly (I hope), but every bit as beautiful.
April 4, 2008
Blue Eggs n Ham?
We have a HUGE growth of Confederate Jasmine on the railing of our front steps. We almost never use our front door as we park out back. As a result, this bird evidently felt good about building a nest there. Cool opportunity for some nature observation.
April 21, 2008
The Great Outdoors
The weather played nice for a bit and I got to take some pictures.
April 28, 2008
Retreat Pictures
April 29, 2008
Retreat to Black Mountain
I could blog about the Pisgah Brewing Company where they have some of the best stout I've ever had and an open brewery night on Thursdays from four til eight and where three bucks will get you the freshest liquid bread this side of heaven.
I could blog about Perry's BBQ, a little hole in the wall joint in Montreat, where for seven bucks each our little group (which barely fit in their dining room), got us all the pork, chicken, and brisket we could eat along side hush puppies, slaw, buttered red potatoes, baked beans, and sweet tea that would make any true son of the south cry.
I could blog about My Father's Pizza, or the beauty of the mountains, or the wonderful folks at the Blue Ridge Assembly, or the great ride up and back I had, or the games of Catan played, or the music, or the hornet in my bed, or the hike topped off with cooling my head via a hat dipped in a mountain waterfall.
Oh wait, I sorta just did. More on some of that to come (maybe).
Mainly I want to say this. I went to the mountains hoping desperately that I wouldn't worry about who wasn't there and focusing instead on renewing relationship and hearing the gospel. That happened. Oh I worried a little. I'm a worrier in spite of what some may think. More importantly I connected with guys both old friends and new. We shared our pain and fears, but we also shared our triumphs. Men laughed and cried, some (including myself) who hadn't done enough of either in a long time.
I heard the good news again that the Kingdom of God is here, now and that as screwed up as all of its inhabitants are we can love one another and our wives and our Lord without shame or reservation. That's not something that we do often enough down here in the valley. I for one have resolved to change that. I've been disconnected from some of my brothers. Time is a precious commodity, but I need to refocus on how I've been spending that. There are enough hours in the day if I'm wise.
We talked about loyalty and transparency in our dealings with one another. I'm pretty good at both of those things, but there's always room for improvement. I honestly worshipped for the first time in months, maybe longer. God unlocked some doors and flung others wide open. I pray that they'll stay that way and more importantly that the "mountain top experience" doesn't just happen on the mountain.
May 7, 2008
Carpenter Bee
Go to Insect Picture of the Dayfor my pic of an Eastern Carpenter Bee! If you go and like, comment and let David know I sent you.
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