18 October 2008
Last Sunday's Bike Ride
Fall's here, and with it, the lessening of wonderful, but eventually oppressive, Florida heat. Last Sunday, we did our usual local loop on the bikes. Pics here at Flickr. Here are a few faves; you can click on them to go to the image on Flickr, then see it in larger sizes (All Sizes icon over the pic):
Mack on the boardwalk over the swamp:
Bald eagle on power standard:
Bald eagle excerpt (just the pixels, ma'am):
DeBary Hall, local home to rich 19th century New Yorker Frederick DeBary.
Mack on the boardwalk over the swamp:
Bald eagle on power standard:
Bald eagle excerpt (just the pixels, ma'am):
DeBary Hall, local home to rich 19th century New Yorker Frederick DeBary.
Labels: bald, bike, debary, eagle, fall, mack, mckinley, tim, wilson
14 September 2008
What Are You Doing?
I've recently started using Twitter, and I like it. Posts of 160 characters or less answering the question, "What are you doing?" go to other subscribers who are "following" you. It also auto-updates my Facebook status. You can have the posts ("tweets") sent to your cell phone as an SMS message, but that costs money under most plans. If your phone supports applications, there might be a Twitter-serving application for it; example: Twitterific on the iPhone (and the Mac, as well).
So, if you're following me on Twitter or see my Facebook updates, then these are old news. But, to answer "What have y'all been up to?", we went to an old friend of mine's wedding last night, got up this morning and took the dog to the dog park, then drove around DeBary checking out where there's still flooding three weeks after Tropical Storm Fay. After we got home, I took some pics of the cats in the back yard, then spent a couple of hours messing around with the pictures and uploading them to our Flickr site.
There's not that many photos overall, even though I put some of them into sets, so maybe the best way to proceed is to start here and work backwards through the photostream. Some representative samples:
Me, curiously earnest in performance of the very serious task of checking my gas gauge.
Lake at Paradise Cove Watersports, where the wedding took place.
Jim and Amy cut the cake.
Mack and Ursa, after the dog park.
Hoses, still pumping flood waters from Tropical Storm Fay away.
Carrot, on the go, on the fence.
So, if you're following me on Twitter or see my Facebook updates, then these are old news. But, to answer "What have y'all been up to?", we went to an old friend of mine's wedding last night, got up this morning and took the dog to the dog park, then drove around DeBary checking out where there's still flooding three weeks after Tropical Storm Fay. After we got home, I took some pics of the cats in the back yard, then spent a couple of hours messing around with the pictures and uploading them to our Flickr site.
There's not that many photos overall, even though I put some of them into sets, so maybe the best way to proceed is to start here and work backwards through the photostream. Some representative samples:
Me, curiously earnest in performance of the very serious task of checking my gas gauge.
Lake at Paradise Cove Watersports, where the wedding took place.
Jim and Amy cut the cake.
Mack and Ursa, after the dog park.
Hoses, still pumping flood waters from Tropical Storm Fay away.
Carrot, on the go, on the fence.
Labels: amy, carrot, cat, debary, dog, fay, flood, florida, hose, jimmi, mack, mckinley, paradise cove, park, swift, tim, tropical storm, ursa, wilson
16 August 2008
Last Week's Travel
Mack and I went to the Oklahoma panhandle last week. His niece Sarah was getting married, and we were installing a new HDTV and home theater for his dad. Here are a few pics:
Mack on the way to Amarillo (on the plane to DFW where we had to change):
Mack's folks, Stanley and Gaynor, at the wedding:
Mack, up on the tower, making some changes to Stanley's over-the-air wiring:
Complete set of wedding pictures here, and complete set of around-the-farm pictures here.
Part of me wants to rant really badly about this whole marriage thing. I know the numbers, and the defaults follow from the numbers. When you're 2% of the population, you don't expect the rules to be bent around you. But, as a living breathing human being, you also get sick of having your inability to participate fully in the civic and religious culture of the nation shoved in your face. That's not the problem of any of the fine folks getting married: It's just kind of frustrating. More some other time, possibly soon.
Mack on the way to Amarillo (on the plane to DFW where we had to change):
Mack's folks, Stanley and Gaynor, at the wedding:
Mack, up on the tower, making some changes to Stanley's over-the-air wiring:
Complete set of wedding pictures here, and complete set of around-the-farm pictures here.
Part of me wants to rant really badly about this whole marriage thing. I know the numbers, and the defaults follow from the numbers. When you're 2% of the population, you don't expect the rules to be bent around you. But, as a living breathing human being, you also get sick of having your inability to participate fully in the civic and religious culture of the nation shoved in your face. That's not the problem of any of the fine folks getting married: It's just kind of frustrating. More some other time, possibly soon.
Labels: farm, gay marriage, mack, mckinley, niece, photos, wedding
06 August 2008
LAST ALASKA PICS!
Why am I shouting? (ALL CAPS!) Because I think I've finally uploaded the last of the Alaska pictures, only, what?, six?, seven? weeks after we got home.
"Good things come to those who wait."
For all of you who've looked at these, please accept my deep and sincere gratitude. It was a wonderful trip, and it's been my/our pleasure to share what are only tidbits of it with you. If ever the opportunity presents itself to go to Alaska, I very highly recommend it. In fact, let me be presumptuous and say that you would be well-advised to go out of your way to make that opportunity happen.
Last pics, from my iPhone, in the stream here.
Last full set, our last day around Anchorage, here.
Example pics?
Anchorage Visitor Center:
Everything is big in Alaska:
"Good things come to those who wait."
For all of you who've looked at these, please accept my deep and sincere gratitude. It was a wonderful trip, and it's been my/our pleasure to share what are only tidbits of it with you. If ever the opportunity presents itself to go to Alaska, I very highly recommend it. In fact, let me be presumptuous and say that you would be well-advised to go out of your way to make that opportunity happen.
Last pics, from my iPhone, in the stream here.
Last full set, our last day around Anchorage, here.
Example pics?
Anchorage Visitor Center:
Everything is big in Alaska:
Labels: alaska, anchorage, mac, mack, mckinley, visitor center
