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Early morning sunlight illuminates the ice fields of Lake Superior off Little Girl's Point in the far western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. View On Black
At my parents place at sunset. It's nice to look the other way sometimes and get a surprise.
This is looking east towards the hills at the southern end of the Barossa.
I drove by this tree the other day and this is the tree I have been looking for all my life.
Alone. Tall. Breadth. Branches. Growth. Life. Depth. Intricate. Complicated. Simple. Old. Wise. Deep.
If I haven't ever said it before, I'm saying it now. I love trees. They are my metaphor for everything in life. Right now this tree says that it is cold and lonely, but deep inside she is being renewed, growing and preparing herself for whats to come, a life that is guaranteed to spring forth to bring us warmth and comfort again.
This outfit means a lot to me because this amazing acorn dress was picked by the ModCloth community through our Be the Buyer program! I’m so glad this one made the cut :)
Cardigan, Dress, Shoes: ModCloth
Tights: American Apparel
"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."
Mosleh Eddin Saadi—Gulistan. (Garden of Roses.)
I will shortly have photos up from Finn and Sawyer's brit, which took up a good portion of the afternoon. It was freezing today, and Jules and I rushed to get to Queens on time.
It turned out to be an extremely moving ceremony, I thought—even without considering the slightly controversial discussions leading up to today's event. The mohel informed us she was a pediatrician of 26 years and a grandmother, and managed to both contextualize the ceremony, as well as put everyone at ease with a mixture of bossiness and good humor. I was quite impressed, even as I got scolded at one point for my photography.
Jeremy and Asia asked that I do the blessing of the wine. It wasn't long, and I've heard it so many times at all of our family functions, but it was still a little anxiety provoking. I practiced for about ten minutes on the way there. From what I was told, I did well. I think the mohel was impressed with me too!
Sam and Lois seemed really happy, and Asia's parents, and grandmother, were likewise overflowing with emotion. And it was that fact I think that was most fulfilling to Jeremy and Asia. A brit is, after all, about family, legacy and tradition.
Brett told me he and Nicole got engaged in December, and invited us to their wedding—in Aruba!—so that will be fun. Congratulations to them! I had some vodka and some whisky and some dessert, and soon after left. We walked by my parents house, but they weren't home (I learned later that they had driven my granduncle back to Flushing), so we headed to the subway. When we got home, I curled up on the couch for a short nap... and woke up 3 hours later.
Now, it's 2:05am, and I've been alternately working on the Investor Presentation and watching CNN Election news. It's gonna be a long night, so I thought I'd do my blog entry early... I've been working on a more outside-the-box haiku, but in honor of today's event, I leave you with this more pedestrian one:
When the boys ask, "Dad...
What happened to my foreskin?"
Jeremy will shrug.
Huge thanks to Will for picking up Portable Island for me (second hand) during his recent trip to Japan. The concept of a 'virtual vacation' for the PSP was just too whacky for me to pass up.
While I knew this game was going to be difficult due to the fact that it is entirely in Japanese it didn't help stop my initial reaction of, "Shit! This entire game is in Japanese!??!".
With the language barrier, my experience with this game is starting off more like being on Lost than on vacation. Scouring the internet turned up some helpful tips and translations which I've assembled and printed for later review. Kudos to everyone on the Playstation forums for the 50+ pages of posts for this game and the wealth of information those bulk posts contained. If only I had read it earlier and took advantage of Play Asia's $13 price tag for this game. Oh well, no worries there as $22 sure beats the hell off of the $50 I was initially looking at to import this title.
I haven't really dont too much just yet to explore this game. I walked around for a moment or two, played the ukulele (which is just too much fun) and then put the system in 'stand' mode while I worked.
Stand mode basically turns the PSP into one of those 'soothing sounds of the rainforest' machines. It plays islandy sounds (wind, waves, waterfalls, birds chirping - that sort of thing) while showing scenes from all over the island. It's very very gimmicky and funny, but I honestly don't know how often I'll keep that mode on while I'm at work. I'm sure the bird sounds alone will eventually drive my co-workers crazy.
The 'game' reminds me a bit of Dead or Alive Extreme Volleyball minus the volleyball and enourmas breasts. Well, I suppose if you pick the girl character (which I didn't) you may have a shot of bringing the enourmas breasts back to the island, but I'll have to check that out later.
It reminds me of DOAX in the sense that there is lots of seemingly unimportant things to do - such as eat meals, check your mail and what not. Those two things I mentioned may play a bigger role than I initially understand, but like I stated earlier the game is in Japanese so I haven't a clue just yet.
Looking forward to exploring the island and taking some photos when my character eventually gets his camera (provided I can figure out how to use it). Will post more about Portable Island once I have more to say about it.
I took quite a few snowdrop images today but I was not pleased with them. Thankfully these snowdrops will open a little more so I will return to take again.
The Sunset Strip in Los Angeles might be a hub for tall wall ads and super-size billboards, but not very often do you spot one that means so much to the world, as this one honoring the golden anniversary of the Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.
Anyone who follows this photo stream will know that I like to bore everyone occasionally with photographs based on Shakespeare's plays. This is the first of a series of images drawing on Macbeth.
Macbeth is played by Pete who has a profile on PurplePort.
Driving the rental car in Tampa. My D700 was on a tripod behind me. I used the interval timing feature to shoot off 5" exposure shots every 10 seconds. Then I just had to drive up and down the strip looking for some cool lights around me. The only problem I found (other then the shear panic of thinking my camera was going to fall at any time) was the vibrations of the wind and road causing some softer shots of the inside of the car.
Muso Soseki was a 14th Century Zen priest and designer of the Koke-dera Garden in Kyoto. Today it is a moss garden, but he didn't design it as such; slowly, over many years, the moss - his 'profane world', perhaps - took over the 'paradise' he had created.
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