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Explore 344 3/26/07

Day 204 - Polished aluminum offers less corrosion protection, is hard to do well to begin with, takes like a million hours of polishing for every one hour flying if you want to keep it in good shape*, and functions as a perfect egg-fryer in any weather warmer than 70... but on the other hand, it's much more attractive, it looks fantastic, it's really pretty, is slightly lighter weight, and gives these super cool reflections when the sun hits it just so.

*Ok, fine, it's not as much extra work as that, but it does take special care.

Day 14 - "Radical" orchiectomy, eh? All right. I'll give you "radical."

Day 33 - The Tamarack Cirrus gets overlooked these days in favor of jets, but it still catches the sunset pretty nicely.

Day 222 - I really do love that we have a Statue of Liberty on the lake. The past few weeks she's been especially cool, with our nice sunsets and dramatic water.

Day 291 - During the summer, this is an island, but it becomes a peninsula when the lake gets drawn down. This particular time of year is especially nice because the leaves are turning as well, so you get some splashes of color mixed in.

Day 97 - I can just hear Audrey's voice in my head: "I don't care that we've already reached your deductible for the year, the answer is still no."

Day 10 - A latte and baklava at Grumpy Monkey in Coeur d'Alene.

Day 336 bonus - 9.5 inches of my hair, ready to head off to Pantene.

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A plant I thought was dead suddenly began to sprout again. A few days after this stem grew out of the bulb, the rest exploded into bloom as well.

Day 224 - Hummingbirds are hard to shoot- they're fast, they're small, the amount of time they give you to see them is short, and they're always among a bunch of other focal points, so (on my camera at least) I have to switch to manual focus so I don't lose the picture to focus hunting... I love a challenge, though, so I'll keep camping out on the sidewalk after work for these guys.

This is the lotus blossom square.

006|366 Looks like a blizzard but it´s only a snow cannon at work next to them

Day 98 - Look, it's not that the shades make the aviator... but they sure don't hurt.

Day 273 - Yesterday we got a neat bokeh effect by channeling Joyce Byers with some Christmas lights in the guest room. Today is much more tin-foil-centric... with a bit of painter's tape, a party balloon, a flashlight, an ironing board, and clever timing.

Day 4 - My bottles have tides. They ebb after I finish brewing a batch, rushing out to my friends' houses, then flow back in gradually (empty) to begin the cycle again.

Day 225 - A houseboat interrupts the stillness of Sand Creek just after sunset, with the Cedar Street Bridge as a backdrop.

Day 246 - Raindrops pool on a CJ3 nav light after a late evening rain shower.

"Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all."

-Rudolph Arnheim-

A long trip home from port Macquarie means taking photos when you can get them.

Day 11 - Audrey oversees the arrangement of a gummy tribal dance troupe to demonstrate gummy formations.

Day 47 - Campy? Yes. Awesome? Definitely.

Some one was (is?) pushing up these daisys as they were growing over a grave in an old cemetary.

"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”

~Pooh~

Day 338 - Audrey takes a break to zil from a (sort of) chorus position at Devotion's Winter Dance Jam today.

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school."

-Anna Addams-

Wade in Tulsa inspired this picture taken at Lynn Lane School in Lynn Lane OK. He has been an amazing resource of information and local history in the Tulsa area; I doubt there's many people who know more. Thanks Wade.

Another great shot of this scene captured by Dan.

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Day 218 - I've been tinkering with this one for a while (obviously, from the date in the title). I love the Connies Cafe​ sign downtown. I love neon signs in general, really. Yeah, they're electrically inefficient, but there's something about an old-but-still-bright neon sign that just joyously shouts Americana to me.

Day 113 - I'm borrowing Danny's Nighthawk again, which means I get to take pictures of it again. Like all machines, I love it, and express my love in up-close shots of clutch covers, exhausts, gears, etc.

"Beauty was darkness till she came.

Then paint her eyes, whose active light

Shall make the former shadows bright,

And with their every beam supply

New day, to draw her picture by."

-James Shirley-

Explore 179 7/27/07

Day 18 - Board game therapy can be very effective during convalescence. And even if it's not scientifically accurate, it's fun.