Category: 366

151/366: Half an Oak

The giant oak tree in our back yard, showing the aggressive pruning of branches that stick over the fence.

When Kate and I were looking for a house back in late 2002, one of the things that sold us on this place was the back yard. The lot is very deep, unusually so for this part of Niskayuna, so there’s a lot of space in the back yard, and it was pleasantly shaded by… Continue reading 151/366: Half an Oak

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142-150/366: On-Deadline Catchup

Clouds at sunrise, with the bus picking up the kid across the street.

I’ve been neglecting the photo-a-day thing for the last week-and-a-bit, but for a good reason: I had a deadline of, well, today, to finish a chapter I was asked to contribute to an academic book. And while I fully realize that actually hitting that deadline is not typical academic behavior, I have A Thing about… Continue reading 142-150/366: On-Deadline Catchup

141/366: Holes

View through the hole I cut through some pieces of particle board to use testing SteelyKid's balsa-wood structure for OM.

As mentioned last week, SteelyKid is doing Odyssey of the Mind this year, and her team has elected to build a balsa wood structure. The goal for these is to support the maximum possible weight, and the first step of the testing is to put a “crusher board” on top. This is a couple of… Continue reading 141/366: Holes

140/366: Dog and Volcano

SteelyKid's balloon dog, and The Pip's clay volcano.

When I arrived to pick SteelyKid up the other night, she and her friends were light-saber fighting with long balloons, which is fairly typical of that bunch. While I gathered her stuff up, though, she stopped and twisted her balloon into an animal shape: She got a “How to Make Balloon Animals” kit a few… Continue reading 140/366: Dog and Volcano

136/366: Gotta Fly

A bluejay taking off from the bird feeder outside our dining room window.

We have a couple of bird feeders near the house, one just outside the bay window in the front of the house, and the other on the side of the house right next to the dining room. (That one used to be farther out in the yard, where it functioned well as a means of… Continue reading 136/366: Gotta Fly

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134/366: BalsaKid

The first complete test structure from SteelyKid's Odyssey of the Mind team.

Back in the fall, a note came home with SteelyKid about an organizational meeting for an Odyssey of the Mind team for her elementary school. My father coached this for several years back in the 80’s, and one of my sister’s teams went to the World championships (held in Cole Field House at the University… Continue reading 134/366: BalsaKid

133/366: No Writing On Paper Today!

The "Closed" sign that the Pip dictated to Kate.

This one’s a bit of a cheat, but the only pictures I got Tuesday that turned out well had other people’s kids in them, and I won’t post those. So here, instead, is a picture from over the weekend, mostly because I want to tell the cute-kid story that goes with it. On Sundays, I… Continue reading 133/366: No Writing On Paper Today!

132/366: New Phone Test

Crescent moon just after sunset, taken with my new phone.

Having picked up a new phone last week, it seems sort of appropriate to give a photo-a-day to a picture taken with that phone, as a kind of test. Also, I realized while on the way to SteelyKid’s taekwondo class that I had forgotten to take any photos with the good camera, and wanted some… Continue reading 132/366: New Phone Test

131/366: Nott Shots

The Nott Memorial with dramatic clouds.

One of my recurring half-serious grumbles about this photo-a-day business is that our neighborhood doesn’t offer a clear view of the horizon, making it impossible to get nice sunset pictures. On sunday afternoons, though, we have a babysitter come stay with the kids for a while so Kate and I can do some work, and… Continue reading 131/366: Nott Shots

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