• Photos and Shutterblogs - The Never-Ending Bloga

    If You See Daffodills, It Worked

    Whee! It works! First time! David is a genius! MTGalleryLink is da bomb! Slickeroo! There are more tricks that it can do, like a random image, but the doc page says it only refreshes the image on a rebuild. Hah. I have a true randomizing script that makes the moblog images change on every refresh. It’s called rotator.php and I was able to set it up without David’s help, so it’s possible I could do it again with this MTGalleryLink thing. That would be fairly cool. Holy CRAP. Holy frick-in CRAP. This just made the last, agonizingly long-awaited Final Entry…

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    Got Marmot?

    First, I see this: Get Fuzzy And I think, "Marmot? We've got one around here somewhere." And then I see this, and think: One of our marmots is missing. And that, all three of you who aren't spamming my referral logs, is how my mind works. Thank you, I'm here all week.

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    Spring…

    Okay, I’ve uploaded some more Chicago Botanic Gardens pictures and jiggered things around. The main albums page is here, and the newest album is “Spring 2005.” It was a nice day that day, if a little cold, and windy on the southern exposures (Ooh! my Aunt Fanny!). Today, though, was a really nice, actually quite warm day. The tulips are coming up in the front yard, I can hardly believe it but it’s true. And only last week the whiskey barrel was full of ice. I’ll be doing more gardening this year than I did last year, that’s for sure.…

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    Okay, I’ll Give It A Shot

    Boing Boing: Google launches Picasa 2 I’ve used Picasa/Hello, but stopped using it a while back because it wouldn’t go through the work firewall. Not that I did anything like that at work, mind you. This seems to be the full-on Picasa for free, where before it was just the Hello piece. But just the other night I was in a panic trying to find images on one of my many harddrives. So, we’ll see. I liked using it for my Razzberry Vinaigrette blog.

  • Photos and Shutterblogs - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Busy Busy Busy

    Weekend? There was a weekend? Friday Worked at the client home office location, so had to “dress up.” Took the new camera with me, got a few photos before the light went Went shopping for new clothes with my husband David. Actually bought some for myself, and they actually fit. Saturday Bar Mitzvah service in Northfield, wearing the new clothes Lunch with Dan and Deb at their place, not far from Libertyville Drove home for a short time, bought more clothes on the way. Drove back up to Libertyville to the location of the party. Got home very late, probably…

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    Soon, My Darleeng, You Weel Be Mine

    Oh, yes, I’ve been wanting one of these for a while now. David has one, and his photos always come out with much more depth and richness than my current camera can give. In the May road trip album, all the pictures I took in Moab of rock art came out pretty “meh” because of the glare, and the fact that I couldn’t change focus (much) on my camara – it has digital zoom, which I found did not work very well on pictures I took for the England trip. David’s, meanwhile, came out much better, though a stepladder might…

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    More Photos (Yeah, Of Trees)

    Saturday we drove around more or less at random, first south, then north to Volo Bog. It turned out to be a good decision to get there so late – the light was much better. my husband David’s photos look a lot better, he’s got the better camera. For a while. Whee! It was a nice time, and in spite of all the cars in the lot and people who seemed to be arriving, we had the whole trail to ourselves except for the first 200 yards or so. At one point, we stopped at the duck blind and settled…

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    Napa Photo Gallery

    The new gallery for the recent trip to Napa Valley and San Francisco is here. I didn’t tinker with some of these images, hence they were uploaded fairly quickly. Some of them could use some cropping and at least one needs to have some artifacts Photoshopped out, which I may do later. However, there’s no hope for the one with the big fuzzy red hair right in the middle, so I left it in for now. It was taken by aiming the camera straight down from a balcony, which is why the hair got into the act. Ah, well. The…

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    Napa Valley Memories

    Travel is such a broadening experience. Especially when you eat as much good food and drink as much good wine (well, not that much, really) as we did. Plus, the mud helped sweat some of the toxins out of our bodies, or so we like to tell ourselves. And it certainly helps to give us new perspectives on life (at first this image was loaded sideways – almost left it that way). Anyway, the images will soon be loaded in a new album in my gallery. They will include some rather scary mudbath pictures as well as pictures of Steve…

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    Moon Phases Made Handy

    Hey, one of these might be nice to have…Moon Phases :: Calendars Earlier tonight, David took some nice photos of the moon. He’s still working on some of the features he can use with the Eos Digital Rebel. Man, now I’m starting to think about that camera, too. Stop it, Ginny. Just stop.