They never look the same...

...on the computer as they did in the camera. Tonight the cloud-covered moon proved to be my match, despite more than twenty attempts.


See? Grr. I'm learning.

These were also interesting, though I find they look more like daytime. Stupid city lights. Oh, well. I had fun out there shooting, anyway, and that's half the point.

A Good Day...

...for a photo tour. But we're staying local. Today was another upper-70's day -- truly blissful -- so I stayed in what I wore to bed, added some slip-on shoes, and played in the backyard for a while. I was also taken by the bug to cook, so I did, heading out to the garden to snip or pick fresh ingredients, and grilling several different items on the grill (chicken, eggplant, elephant garlic).

Days like these make me long for summer and curse the fact that we're still in school.

I also opened up the house and lazed on the couch, reading. Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles, has proven to be food for thought.

Sun and purple flowers on the arbor

Veins of light

A face this mother loves!

Action shot -- itchy back, oh this feels so good, oh man i gotta do it some more!

Hahaha! Mid-shake. This one cracks me up, and I couldn't resist posting it, even though, by photographic standards, it's a terrible shot.

Gone wild, has the back of the backyard

I stood beneath the arbor, and lo, the arbor hummed.

Eggplant parmesan, whole wheat sourdough with red pepper and sundried tomato spreads

Not a great picture, no. But I posted it because, if you click it and make it large, you can observe evidence of the movement of the stars...and this was only about a 30-second shot. Does the earth really move that quickly? Wow.