The icy snow in the air was freezing to my windshield before my defroster and windshield wipers could do anything about it. I was driving at a snail’s pace. In fact, my speedometer doesn’t register the speed I was going it was so slow. 
Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, photo blogging, driving, snowstorm, Maine
Looks like a we might finally have got a sign that Winter might be coming to Maine…maybe…
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Inspired by this photo.
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I finally finished that scarf I started knitting back in October. Yay!
Someone once commented that I dress like a “conservative Bostoner/New Yorker.” I’m not sure what that means since I’m from New Orleans. Normally I wear fall colors and a lot of brown and black mixed with a lot of orange and the occasional lime green.
But I have a secret, one that the accupuncturist and my physical therapist both pointed out this week — I almost always wear brightly colored socks!
Almost no one ever looks at your feet, so it’s my secret surprise, my happy feet, my wild, kinky, outgoing,
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You know that creepy back hallway you need a security badge to get out of that I mentioned yesterday? Well, here it is…
Never know who might be lurking in there that might want to just wander into our work area and steal our valuable…erm…pens and pencils.
Take a look at the ceiling…it’s evidence that the building is a converted parking garage.
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Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, creepy, sepia, pxn8
Where I work, if you don’t have a security badge, you can’t get back from the dimly lit hall where the bathrooms are to the office without wedging the door open with a trashcan. We’ve been told this is a serious security violation as that could lead to just anyone wandering in.
There used to be a “guest” badge for visitors of the building to borrow — you know, those folks who have meetings in the conference room, consultants, schmucks who’ve left their real security badges on their
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Tags: security, trashcan, pxn8, project365, photoaday, oneaday, photo blogging
Since the beginning of December, I’ve been going twice a week to physical therapy in this warm water pool to treat my fibromyalgia. This week I’m switching to once a week on land and once a week in the water. I’m going to miss the comfort of not sweating during my aerobic workout.
However, an hour in warm water always makes me a little “rushed” afterward…just saying.
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You wouldn’t know it from looking at my desk at work, but I really have cut way down on my caffeine. I’m just way too sleepy now to carry the empties to the recycle bin. 
By the way, I edited this picture using the online editor at pxn8.com, which I heard about from Amber Rhea (PXN8: Awesome online photo editor) a while back and for some reason saved the post. Maybe I fore-knew that I’d
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Tags: project365, photaday, oneaday, Pepsi One, Diet Coke, Snapple, Nikon, Monster Pod, Gorillapod, tripod, photography, photo blogging, pxn8, caffeine, recycle, sepia, blue
I’ve been playing with my camera and my stained glass piece in my picture window; I like the way the beveled piece on the left shows in the photo. I only have two crab apple trees in my front yard, by the way.
To view my entire “Study in Stained Glass” as a slide show, click here.
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This is the view from my kitchen table. I love watching the birds lunching at the bird feeder outside in my front yard while I’m eating. Being able to watch t.v. too is nice too.
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This is a used bookstore and novelty shop in Portland, ME. You can find everything from old vinyl records to stuffed Ewok collectibles to retro 70’s lava lamps.
It always makes me think there should be a quirky t.v. show about it when I pass it.
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I start my morning with all but two of those bottles on the bottom two rows, thanks to all my medical problems. One of these, two of those.
Don’t think the other two bottles get ignored. Those are the night meds.
The top shelf has the pain meds for those days when the migraines and fibromyalgia is unignorable. Though, technically, I don’t take the aleeve or ibuprophen anymore. They’re just there for company now.
I vaguely remember when I used to just take a
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Pugly hates riding in the car. I haven’t figured out why. He generally likes wherever we go — doggy daycare, Planet Dog, visiting folks. However, he hates the ride. He generally sits with his little head pressed against the seat, either with his eyes closed or staring at me with those puppy-dog “are we there yet” eyes.
Sometimes I think he’s just motion sick. He’s thrown up a couple of times.
But then other times I think he’s just afraid of my
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Tags: Pug, the puppy, project365, photo blogging, photoaday
Everyone’s doing it.
Yup, I’m a joiner.
Actually, now that I’ve read up on it and realized that you don’t have to take a picture of yourself every day for a year like Mac is doing over at peskyapostrophe, I’m not so scared of it.
Basically, I just need to take a photo every day for 365 days. The challenge is to take some sort of interesting photo every day and at least one picture of myself every month. I can handle 12 photos of myself. Heck, I’ve got one
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Tags: Pug, the puppy, Christmas, costume, photo blogging
Check out the nifty socks Mac sent me. 
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As promised here are some pictures of today’s snow fall around my new house.
Here’s the Little Red House. I wonder if someone can Photoshop those powerlines out so that can be made into a Christmas card or is the shot too blurry, do you think?
The view from my front window:
The view from my kitchen window:
The view from my Dining Room:
Tags: snow, Maine, little red house, photo blogging
Tags: Halloween, pig costume, Pug, the puppy, photo blogging
Tags: Pug, the puppy, Autumn foilage, photo blogging
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