Archive for the Photo Blogging category
May 21st, 2007
I can’t remember the last time I had a good night’s sleep. Lately, it just seems so much worse. I feel so agonizingly tired all the time and my fibromyalgia had been getting better but now it’s back with a vengeance. I know what the doctors said — no rest, no ease of pain. I just feel like everything hurts, even my eyeballs.
This morning I finally accepted the truth.
Aloof is a lot to blame for my lack of sleep and something has
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Tags: the cats, the puppy, sleep deprivation, black cat, retraining a cat, photo blogging, flickr
May 21st, 2007
Yesterday morning, something, crows, I think, brought down my bird feeder. I had been watching birds come and go, but got distracted with the computer for about 10 minutes and when I looked back at the picture window, the bird feeder was on the ground in several pieces.
My neighbor’s bird feeder appeared to be MIA as well so I’m betting it was those rather large crows I saw flying about that morning.
I added it to my Lowes shopping list since I was going that afternoon anyway.
That was a
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Tags: bird feeder, crows, Nemesia, Lowes, fire door, fire code, photo blogging, flickr
May 17th, 2007
The Canon PowerShot S3 IS has arrived. The Canon PowerShot SD110 is out. Yay!
I have a lot of buttons to figure out. There’s a lot of features to learn. However, I can already tell just from toying with it even in the dreary, rainy, overcast light we have today that the new camera is 100 times better. It’s going to be so much more fun to use.
Tuesday night my mother pointed out that I was really hard on the SD110. I’m going to have to be much nicer and kinder
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Tags: bird watching, Rusty Blackbird, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, Chipping Sparrow, photo blogging, Canon PowerShot S3 IS, camera, Canon PowerShot SD110
May 17th, 2007
Pugly has managed to catch Kennel Cough again even though he’s been vaccinated. He was up all night the last two nights coughing and yesterday morning, he vomited. So instead of daycare, I took him to the vet. The vet put him on home rest and quarantine. No daycare and no visiting the neighborhood dogs.
However, he doesn’t seem to have lost his energy. He’s been chasing his tail and looking for birds and neighbors to bark at. Nor has he lost his appetite. He’s been on carpet patrol
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Tags: the puppy, Pug, dog, photo blogging, Kennel Cough, quarantine, flickr
May 15th, 2007
Yesterday, I was driving down Forest in the right lane and right as I came to The Bike Shop there were about 20 or 30 folks on bikes out front on the lawn. They chose to enter traffic right in front of me at that particular moment and they didn’t seem to be paying attention to oncoming traffic. I generally have no problem with bicyclists as long as they seem to be competent and following the law themselves.
I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting those guys you
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Tags: bicyclists, road hazards, driving, reckless, dangerous, camera, Canon Photoshot S3 IS, photo blogging, flickr
May 11th, 2007
My mother thought a good idea for a Mother’s Day present for my grandmother would be a framed photo of myself with Pugly, but she said that the photos I’ve taken of myself with the wigs on are all so fun that I should do the portrait with a wig on. O.K. No problem. In New Orleans, I used to do the costume wigs and costume stuff all of the time.
O.K. This is Maine. Definitely not the same as New Orleans.
And rural Maine? You cannot go out of your front door wearing a blue page wig, a Indian-made blouse, and blue jeans and carrying a tripod, a camera and a Pug and not have every single one of your neighbors come to the edge of your yard and stare like you’re about to climb up a water tower with a rifle or something.
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Tags: Pug, dog, the puppy, neighbors, dress up, New Orleans, rural, Maine, Mother\\\'s Day, family
May 11th, 2007
I’m still unclear why they were walking away from the store with the empty basket.
Tags: photo blogging, shopping cart
May 3rd, 2007
I was looking back over the Project 365 photos I’ve taken so far. Since the beginning of the year, I’ve contributed 122 photos to my Project 365 project out of the 470 photos I’ve uploaded to flickr, which has been a subset of the photos I’ve taken — only the best photos or only the ones I considered not the most horrible in the world.
Looking back over a quarter of a year in photos, I was sort of surprised at the memories they triggered. Granted, I’ve added little mini-blogs with a lot of them. For instance, I knew we had a late Winter here, but now I know we had our first real storm of 2007 starting January 14th. And the day I came down with the Norovirus, I took a photo of a license plate — PEPRONI. I have a photo of the first flower to bloom in my garden even though it’s already disappeared. I have photos of 122 moments that might have otherwise slipped away.
And I’ve had fun doing it.
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Tags: Project 365, flickr, photo blogging
May 2nd, 2007
According to Flickr’s mysterious “interestingness” formula, this is my 75th most interesting photo today:
“Dare You To Try To Take This Chair”
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May 1st, 2007
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Tags: photo blogging, laptop, paws, flickr
April 27th, 2007
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Don’t forget to stop by the Friday Ark too.
Tags: photo blogging, Pug, the puppy, Friday Ark, flickr
April 27th, 2007
I ordered a set of Mini Moo Cards today. I picked out about 30 photos from my flickr account and cropped them down to the itty bitty size of 28mm x 70mm. Basically I’ll get about 3 or 4 copies of each.
On the back of each card in orange print, I put the quote:
“Touch magic, pass it on.”
- Jane Yolen
Then my first two initials and my last name, an email address, and my flickr address.
Now, I’ve got about
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Tags: flickr, mini moo cards, photo blogging
April 26th, 2007
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April 25th, 2007
According to Flickr’s mysterious “interestingness” formula, this is my 100th most interesting photo today:
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As you can see, Pugly is trying to eat that tree. He’s such a nature-loving, quirky, silly little dog.
Tags: photo blogging, Pug, the puppy, flickr, interestingness, 100th interesting photo
April 23rd, 2007
Pugly had a lazy Sunday yesterday.
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Tags: Pug, dog, puppy, photo blogging
April 22nd, 2007
Yesterday was the first sunny Saturday of Spring after a month of false starts and Spring snow snowstorms and Nor’Easters. And while I admit that I understand that Winter came late and wanted to stick around awhile, my Seasonal Affective Disorder was really tired of it all, despite the lovely photographs I managed to take.
So, with Spring literally in the air, while my new neighbors were blowing the remnants of last Fall’s leaves into my yard, Pugly and I hopped in the Jeep and headed down to Portland to the Eastern Prom where everyone and their dog was out and about enjoying the day. Pugly and I took end the sights of the Eastern Prom Trail near East End Bench including The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad. Pugly saw the beach for the first time and got slapped in the face by a wave for the first time, much to his surprise. 
All in all, a great day.
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Tags: The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad, Eastern Prom, East End Beach, Portland, Maine, Spring, photo blogging, Pug
February 22nd, 2007
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Tags: Palm Desktop, to-do list, project365, photo blogging
January 17th, 2007
Normally I have granola in yogurt or peanut butter on whole grain toast for breakfast, but work is getting to me…
But by lunch I was back to my usual semi-healthy fair.
Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, breakfast, lunch, Oreos, Pepsi One, Starbucks, Moosewood, photo blogging
January 16th, 2007
I don’t feel well, but I was running low on a few staples like caffeine, bottled water, milk, breakfast, lunch, dinner…Because I wasn’t feeling well, of course, I headed right for the convenience foods. You can’t see that I have oranges and cut up fruit in there but I do. Honest. It’s just hidden behind the T.V. dinners.
Tags: project365, photoday, oneaday, groceries, sushi, comfort food, health food, photo blogging
