ScienceBlogs had some back-end Issues for a few days, which delayed the photo-a-day project. This one’s from two days ago, when I was taking a picture of the bare branches of a tree next door because I liked the way they looked against the sky. I ended up with a high-altitude photobomb, though: I ended… Continue reading 063/366: Photobomber
Category: Pictures
062/366: Fun-Size Candy Mountain
Another busy day, so you get another kind of lazy shot. But, hey, everybody wants to know how the kids did trick-or-treating, right? So here’s The Pip’s share of the Halloween haul: I weighed both his plastic pumpkin full of candy and the Tupperware container that SteelyKid’s stuff is in, and they each came out… Continue reading 062/366: Fun-Size Candy Mountain
061/366: BatNinja
I took some shots of nature stuff on this morning’s dog walk, and a few good action shots at the last soccer game of the season. But honestly, the only thing anybody wants to see today is Halloween costumes, so here are the kids: Cleverly, they both selected costumes that are predominantly black; we augmented… Continue reading 061/366: BatNinja
060/366: Falling
This is basically the shot I was trying to get yesterday when I ended up settling for an evil squirrel: a leaf in mid-fall. This is, of course, damnably difficult to get, as it’s impossible to guess when a specific leaf will drop, and if you throw them up into the air, they don’t stay… Continue reading 060/366: Falling
059/366: Pure Evil
You might look at this and say “Oh, what a cute little squirrel…” But Emmy will be very happy to explain, loudly and at length, that this is, in fact, a demonic alien menace, an existential threat to the safety of our house and home. This wasn’t really what I had in mind for the… Continue reading 059/366: Pure Evil
058/366: Rosy-Fingered
I totally spaced on posting this yesterday, because I ended up having to take SteelyKid to the doctor, which blew a gigantic hole in my day. (She’s fine.) But this is a shot of sunrise yesterday morning: This was a very strange sunrise because this is pretty much the only light in the sky we… Continue reading 058/366: Rosy-Fingered
057/366: Last Practice
I did take some DSLR photos today, but the photo of the day is a cell-phone shot from the final soccer practice of the fall for SteelyKid’s second-grade team. SteelyKid is not, in fact, in this photo; she had a belt test for the Elite Team at her taekwondo school tonight, so she was off… Continue reading 057/366: Last Practice
056/366: SpeakingKid
SteelyKid’s second-grade class is doing a “Zoom Time” thing where the kids make short presentations to the class about one of their interests. It’s basically an expanded show-and-tell, with fifteen minutes for talking, and five for “questions and compliments.” She, of course, decided to talk about taekwondo, so I brought her sparring gear in and… Continue reading 056/366: SpeakingKid
055/366: Take Off
You didn’t get a photo of the day yesterday because this was my day: I spent about seven hours on planes, starting before the sun was up in California, to say nothing of the time spent in airports. I had the good camera with me, so I got some cool photos out the plane window,… Continue reading 055/366: Take Off
054/366: Unprecedented Catblogging
As noted yesterday, I’m visiting my sister for a few days, since I was on the West Coast anyway. Being here in Southern California, it seems appropriate to jack Kevin Drum’s style and do some cat-blogging, and luckily enough, my sister is the Cat Person in the family. So, here they are: SteelyKid was really… Continue reading 054/366: Unprecedented Catblogging