No Smoking.

The Smoking Room of the 1st floor is expected

(they were aiming for excepted)

Strobist: Canon Speedlite 430ex II, 1/4 power, camera right.

here are a few of the pictures from my maternity shoot yesterday. This was my first maternity shoot ever....I was so nervous but the mom was awesome and game for anything!

first maternity session

The curtains were less intrusive than I expected. In fact, they were integrated rather nicely. Their screen-like transparency was a nice complement to the multiple visual effects that resulted fromt glass surfaces

We weren't planning on this tonight... Darren and the girls were on their way out the door to drum circle, when I realized, while washing dishes, that there was no hot water. Darren went down to the basement to check the water heater, and found it leaking all over the floor. We called Larry and Sons Plumbing and Heating and they had someone out here within an hour or so, and since we decided to go with the same type of unit we had before, which they had in the warehouse, we had it installed before bedtime! Besides the $1500 unexpected expense, it was a brief frustration.

Seeing a CP SD90/43MAC was the last thing on my mind as it saw the CP 9157 3rd out in CP 2-485s lash up at Northbrook, IL

Oct-Nov 2008

Oct-Nov 2008

Took this one with all my favorite Southern family in mind... transplanted way up there!

Chris, Donna, Berg, Cindy, John, Jackson, Tobey, and Max... Miss Ya'll!

September 4, 2010..great couple..get to do a newborn hospital session soon! :)

The day is warm and few clouds are seen

As I woke from a disturbing dream

The view from my window remains the same

There is cyclist riding down the lane

All seems well as the day begins

And I wonder what today will bring

Will it bring security and care?

Or will this day become unfair?

Like so many others in the recent past

When the day has slipped from my grasp

When instead of sunshine there was rain

As I try to start my life again.

Must I live expecting rain?

When all I want is to remain

to keep my life the way it was

Just ordinary and without this loss.

Poem: Richard Walker

22 Jan 2007

Note: Following the sudden loss of my son, all I wanted was for it not to be true. Some days began quite normally, then the dreadful realisation cuts in, and then it does not seem to matter what sort of day it is, all you want are for things to be normal again, but you know they can’t be…..

Image: Rain Over St Ives by Richard Walker

10/21/2012 @ Arlington Park, Sarasota, Florida

The bridge, named for Irish writer Samuel Beckett, is expected to open to pedestrians on 10 December 2009 and vehicular traffic the following day

I was expecting the banana HST (not knowing it had recently suffered some damage) so I was pleasantly surprised to see the Colas 67’s top & tailing the 07:35 Slateford - Crewe Carriage Sdgs on Wednesday 27th May.

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The bridge, named for Irish writer Samuel Beckett, is expected to open to pedestrians on 10 December 2009 and vehicular traffic the following day

Kazimir Malevich at a Permanent exhibition at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

... because I got laid off from my job on Friday.

And what do I do when I'm not taking photos? See above...

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Well I expected to be drowning in moths as I approached Balls Wood at 6.00pm with 14c on the car.

Sadly I got more in the garden that night!

I did stay for 3 hours as well until about 9.30pm

Did manage to pick up new for year's Brindled Pug, Yellow Horned and Shoulder-stripe though.

I have yet to trap a Pug in the garden this year...maybe tonight will change that.

Catch Report - 15/03/12 - 160w MBT Tripod + hanging vertical sheet - Balls Wood

Macro Moths

10x Chestnut

2x Shoulder-stripe [NFY]

12x Engrailed

3x Common Quaker

1x Satellite

5x March Moth

3x Hebrew Character

5x Clouded Drab

8x Yellow Horned [NFY]

3x Brindled Pug [NFY]

7x Small Quaker

5x Twin-spotted Quaker

Micro Moths

1x Tortricodes alternella

3x Diurnea fagella

Kishiwada Danjiri festival, Kishiwada, Japan

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My sister is expected a baby. We will have a new member of the family very soon

...a damn sight more than the s**te we got (caption updated after the farce was over for another four years).

Click from Karur Near Trichy ,,,,,,,

A Magpie-lark perched on the back of the park bench where I sat. She must have expected food to come out of my bag when I opened it to re-pack my camera otherwise I don't think she would have perched so close or stayed so long.

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expect to find quality

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We expected to find the owls in an isolated location a little safer than in line with deep center field at a public baseball field. At least they are outside the park and off the field of play. (Note the yellow line along the top of the outfield fence.)

The rangers have set up warning signs and protective fences. The day we visited, there was a ranger watching us closely from the parking lot and I'm sure we would have been warned away if he felt we were getting too near the burrows.

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She looked about ready to burst to me. Little black fellow came right up to me later.

More Transformers goodness that has been sitting there for about 6 months now.

One of the more awesome things to come out of the PotP line was Abominus, the combiner formed from the Terrorcons. This combiner was, as expected, a G1 character that was released to oppose Computron, whose updated set was release during the Combiner Wars line. Unlike Computron, however, Abominus saw zero screen time during the recent animated trilogy, which is a shame because I'd like to have seen him interact with Computron.

I had cracked open Hun-Grr and Rippersnapper last year, but gotten the rest of the team by the Summer. didn't really open anything else up because I was waiting for the one thing to bring them all together - the Transform Dreamwave upgrade kit.

Transform Dreamwave (TDW) is one of the newer 3P companies to come on the scene, and effectively presents itself as better valued Perfect Effects (PE) alternative. I only have one PE upgrade kit - the one for Computron, so I can't really comment on any of their hands and feet options. But the PE stuff I did get was very well made, and Abominus needed some love so I figured why not?

Well, the set finally arrived, and I unpacked everything and did some photos, made some notes, and now present to you my findings, starting with my assessment of the rest of the Terrorcon team.

As with most combiner limbs, regardless of the era, they're generally functional in all modes with no real winner as there is reuse and remoulding of parts as much as possible to reduce production costs. To complicate matters, as it were, the Terrorcons are all monsters of sorts, so even their alt modes are kind of arbitrary. Also, as is the new norm, the accessories they came with are rather meh, though I'm trying to decide which is more boring - the weapons, or the fist/armour bits.

Having said that, some are less boring to look at than others, and my vote for best Terrorcon limb goes to Blot, the black and purple fellow. I love the colour scheme and the "not quite a block with arms and legs" look he's got going for him.

Overall, winner by a large margin.

So back to TDW. They actually came to my attention first with their Volcanicus upgrade kit (soon to be discussed) but when I preordered the Abominus kit the Volcanicus kit had not arrived yet, so I did so with blind faith.

For those who are unfamiliar with TDW and PE, as you suspect, their upgrade kits make the default combiners from Hasbro/Takara into magnificent looking bastards which sadly still have the underlying problems of really crappy loose joints.

Much like the PE set, the TDW set has their combiner fists and feet being able to separate and transform, as applicable, into weapons for the smaller bots and wield. The TDW sets try to one up PE by making EVERYTHING into a weapon or accessory for the smaller bots, thus increasing it's value as it were, but honestly I don't know of many people who would be taking advantage of I'm fairly confident that most folks would stick with the combined mode anyway because lets face it, the individual bots are above average overall.

Unlike PE, however, I've noticed that TDW has parts to increase thigh thickness of the combined mode, as well as in the case of Abominus, additional parts to expand the torso size due to the installation of the chest shield.

Installed, the set does definitely do the job of making the combined mode much more visually appealing, which as mentioned, is limited by the crap joints that are in the base product.

I know there are lots of people who complain about the QC on Hasbro products, but generally it's an issue with poor paint apps. The QC with these sets is all over the place, which I guess is not out of the realm of expectations for a smaller manufacturer, but it really does put the reality of Hasbro and Takara being better at something in perspective.

Between Volcanicus and Abominus, the biggest issues I saw were:

- poor paint apps, most prevalent on the silver guns in the feet

- poor hinge tolerance on the feet, leading them to split apart when weight is applied

- peg tolerances being too large resulting in difficulty inserting into the figures

So yeah, buyer beware, but again if you're not looking too closely you're generally good to go.

they are a bit sore & blistery, but that's to be expected

BEIJING.- Vista de Venus que aparenta cruzar la superficie solar, en la capital china.

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