New Year, New Post, New Blog

Managed the move to WordPress... I think it's a bit more better than here - easier to upload pictures at least and that could be important when it comes to adding pictures for every day of the year.

So it's here.

this sad little blog is abandoned...

Blaagh, blaagh, blaagh

Hey! Happy New Year!

It's been an odd day, efficient errand running mixed with sleeping in, total wasting of time and sadly putting our 16 year old kitty Wolf to sleep. He was one of those animals you take for granted a bit cause he was always so good-natured. He'd been getting obviously old over the last year or so, losing his hearing (and meowing VERY loudly), living by the water bowl and sitting staring at nothing or communing with the heater, but it was all kind of endearing (except for maybe the meowing in the middle of the night) We'll miss his quirks.

So, clearly it's been a while since I posted anything here. I was just moments ago trying to set up a new blog on WordPress but I gave up cause it wasn't doing what I wanted it to do - even worse than things here don't do what I want them to do. For the time being then, I'm sitting tight here but there's always a chance I'll find the perfect place for my occasional bloggishness and move on.

After much dithering, I'm starting a project to take a photo each day of the year and just see what I come up with. I came across this idea on Photojojo after finding a link on Ali Edwards blog. She always has cool ideas and actually follows through on them, unlike me who follows other's ideas and cools on them rather quickly. But, ever the optimist, I'm trying again - ya never know, I might do it this time. I haven't yet decided whether to make it a photo a day of any sort, or a photo a day on my iPhone so, to cover all bases, I'm doing both today and one will become the official pic whenever I make up my mind.

It's fallish here

at least for the moment.

Cold-ish weather has set in and we've traded out the fans for the heaters. I guess it really is fall.

Wish I had a picture of something beautifully autumnal - red and orange leaves, crackling fires, atmospheric mist...but mostly what we have here is soggy brown leaves covering the garden, just making it look rather untidy. Perhaps tomorrow I need to get a pumpkin.

Ooh! I found something! Nothing says fall like Noah's pumpkin bagels and schmear, right?



How did we survive before we knew about these? Now if we could just get them to make them longer...

Once upon a time...

... way back in the early part of August, we took a trip to the Seattle area to see the Camster
(not to be confused with a Hamster though they do have some similarities

note the reddish fur ...er... hair, jaunty tilt of the head and amused smiles)

We did a few tourist-y things:

visited the space needle - which Tess and I found vaguely nauseating


bought crap souvenirs at the first Starbucks - Tess and I found this much less nauseating



ate space noodles - oops, more nausea - with the most indigestion-inducing pesto sauce ever produced.

enjoyed the tour at the Red Hook Ale brewery - new favorite beers found!

we did some not necessarily tourist-y things:

tried to furnish Cam's apartment - not so successfully - Wow, is he picky!

saw Young Frankenstein on it's way to Broadway. Fun! Great sets and all the best jokes are there - Roll, roll, roll in the hay...



celebrated Hillary's 15th birthday at the Cheesecake Factory with some of Cam's friends - nice.




and headed off into the sunset

Yippee for mee!

I don't say that sort of thing about myself often but every once in a while - I gotta!

One of my images from last week's assignment in my photography class got chosen as one of the best of the week out of about 400 images!

See, it's here

I almost feel like a published artist. yay me...

No miracles around here, I guess

Ok, so i didn't get all caught up in August. I just said it could happen...

So in no particular order, let's see if I can get caught up in September!

I'm taking an online photography class, from Cheryl Johnson at Feel Good Photos at the moment. I really like a lot of her work - especially the portraits. I really, really wish I could take good portraits.

But first things first.

Learned a bit about using light last week.


And a bit about the shape of things this week.
I actually found myself using things I learned the first week while working on the second week's assignment! There is thought behind my snapping! (unless you're thinking about when my mind snaps - not so much thought there.)



I've been inspired to take more pictures and think about what I'm doing rather than just pointing and clicking. I've even pushed myself to shoot subjects I don't usually even consider and get right down on the ground or up on top of things to get the angle I wanted even though someone might see me!

Growing experiences for the shy and easily embarrassed...

Desperately seeking August

We've returned from our vacation and are all back at work, H turned 15 and starts high school on Monday, T has left for San Diego - her classes start on Tuesday, W's birthday was ages ago and the month is almost gone. sigh...

Time for some make-up blog entries.

Let's see if I can get all caught up before the month ends... right...er...it might happen... there have been bigger miracles in the world, ya know!