290-299/366: Offbeat Rome

A part of the Aqua Claudia in the Parco degli Acquedotti.

Kate and I spent last week in Rome, to attend the wedding of a friend of mine from college, who was marrying an Italian woman. I’ve always wanted to see Rome, so this was a great excuse, and of course I took a lot of pictures– over 1,600 all told. This happens in part because… Continue reading 290-299/366: Offbeat Rome

284-289/366: Week in Nature Photos

The Pip shrugs expressively at Peebles Island.

Another week, another batch of photos. This is coming on Friday rather than the weekend because I’m going to be incommunicado for most of the next week, and have some free time now. 284/366: LIGO, Eat Your Heart Out Sure, LIGO detected gravitational waves from a second pair of merging black holes, but I found… Continue reading 284-289/366: Week in Nature Photos

276-278/366: Fun With Editing

Some Appa-for-scale comparisons.

Last in a series of themed collections of pictures. These ones are showcasing my rudimentary GIMP skills, pasting together multiple pictures into composites. 276/366: Sky-Bison for Scale One of the earliest happenings in the three-week period I’m dumping photos from was SteelyKid getting strep throat again. She spent a Friday at home, and I took… Continue reading 276-278/366: Fun With Editing

268-275/366: Miscellaneous Photo Dump

The American Legion leads off the Memorial Day parade in Whitney Point.

This one, we’ll do sorta-kinda chronologically: 268/366: Niska-Parade One of the big temporal landmarks of the recent stretch without photo-blogging posts was “Niska-Day,” the annual community festival here. This kicks off with a parade, the route for which comes right to the end of our street. Here’s one of the first marching elements, the local… Continue reading 268-275/366: Miscellaneous Photo Dump

257-267/366: Kids and Dog Photo Dump

SteelyKid getting a hit.

Once again, I’ve let a very long time pass without posting photos. It’s been a crazy stretch for us, starting with SteelyKid getting yet another case of strep throat, then DAMOP, then a trip to my parents’ for Memorial Day weekend, then trying to recover from the previous. As with the last few, I’l group… Continue reading 257-267/366: Kids and Dog Photo Dump

251-256/366: The Week in Photos

SteelyKid on first base, ready to run.

Getting caught up to today, a bunch of pictures from the past week (250/366 was the photo of Emmy’s memorial shrub): 251/366: Wagons Ho! Last weekend we had gorgeous spring weather, so the kids were playing outside a bunch. They ended up getting out the wooden wagon SteelyKid got for her birthday some years back,… Continue reading 251-256/366: The Week in Photos

243-249/366: Cute-Kids Cruise Photo Dump

SteelyKid giving The Pip a piggyback ride in the wading pool on the ship.

As promised/threatened in the previous post, here’s a big collection of shots from our cruise vacation featuring the sillyheads. 243/366: Bunk Beds: The sleeping arrangements in the stateroom were pretty slick. We had a double bed that was there all the time, and during the day a sitting area with a couch. While we were… Continue reading 243-249/366: Cute-Kids Cruise Photo Dump

236-242/366: No-Kids Cruise Photo Dump

Artsy shot of the rising sun refracting through a lamp at the front of the ship.

Since I’ve given up on the strict daily arrangement, I’m going to somewhat arbitrarily assign photos from the cruise numbers corresponding to the days of the last two weeks. I’ll do this in two big photo dump posts, grouped by whether or not SteelyKid and The Pip are in the shots. And since this is… Continue reading 236-242/366: No-Kids Cruise Photo Dump

250/366: Final Resting Place

The Queen Emmy Memorial Shrub.

There’s a discontinuous jump here, if you’re paying attention to photo-a-day numbering, but I’m skipping ahead of the cruise-centered backlog to write a more difficult entry. Back in December, when we lost the Queen of Niskayuna, I had her cremated, and said I’d do something nice as a memorial, once the weather got nicer. We… Continue reading 250/366: Final Resting Place