The Christmas tree in Union Square, San Francisco.
Friday, December 21, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Saturday, December 08, 2007
spinning self-portrait
Here I'm riding on the surprisingly smooth rotating pole at the new playground at sunset.
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Trying out Windows Live Writer
Is this thing the greatest thing since sliced bread or what? Not clear yet. But here's a picture of my coworkers with dueling guitars, mostly so I can see how WYSIWYG this editor is.
I don't see anything here for adding Blogger tags...
Monday, November 26, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Thursday, November 08, 2007
drinking
Rachel lets Ginger drink on Sweeney Ridge. Levi gets excited. The graffiti is on an abandoned utility building in the wilderness(ish), not some sketchy place in the hood.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Lenore and Stephen
We cracked out the Play-Doh last night. The fruits of our labor: Lenore (a fictional being), left, by Stephen, and Stephen, right, by Rachel.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
road tripper
Levi and I rode with some friends to the Ferry Building. In the background is the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
green flash
This was the last sliver of sun as it set at 6:48 p.m. 10/6/2007. It really does turn green. (not a great image--long lens, low light, high ISO)
Friday, October 05, 2007
Levi's first written word
Levi wrote these letters at Stephen's suggestion, 10/2007. His repertoire is pretty limited, but good enough for "MOM."
Monday, October 01, 2007
Rachel's fancy shoes
You'd better like these, because I invested about 1 hour in advising Rachel about various options. That was about a 20th what she spent actually trying and buying options.
Taken with the Lensbaby 3G.
Taken with the Lensbaby 3G.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Burdens of parenthood
I generally take a heavy pack so Rachel can carry Levi, so everybody gives me guff for pictures where Rachel has both. But guess whose shoulders he wanted to ride on during the last trip? The extra 30+ pounds wasn't bad, except that squished between my pack and me, he's lean forward and make me bend my neck more than was pleasant after awhile
Monday, August 27, 2007
Ogham stone
For readers of the Celtic Riddle, a somewhat cheesy archaeological murder mystery, this is an Ogham stone on Dingle Peninsula on Ireland. The hatch marks are essentially runes, based on the Roman alphabet.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Rachel whooping it up (down?)
Rachel and Levi had a gas running down this steep gravel path on the side of Cinder Cone in Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park last weekend.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
clean fun
Levi's new letters and numbers stick to the bathtub walls. He's not terribly good at identifying them, but he consistently calls T "letter Tom" after his grandfather.
Levi's eggplants
One of his favorite things to draw are eggplants. (Rachel colored them.) Other favorite subjects are footballs, balloon strings, kite-tail bows, and glasses.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
absolute value of 235
I still miss the yellow, red and green color scheme, but the orange is finally starting to seem OK.
Monday, June 11, 2007
motion blur 3
This time the lines look more like a skein of distorted sine waves. Enough of this silliness.
motion blur 2
More studies of wheels in motion. More counterintuitive almost-straight line, this time forming a lattice.
motion blur 1
I've grown fixated on trying to capture the peculiar light patterns of wheels in motion. It fascinates me that such straight lines can result from rotating wheels viewed from the frame of reference of the ground. I'm reminded of the old physics view that a rotating wheel, observed in the instant from the ground's perspective, appears to be rotating about the point of contact with the ground, where the wheel's velocity is zero. The hub is moving at the velocity of the car, the top at twice that velocity.
a goofy literary moment
He's growing fonder, if possible, of reading, and I'm growing fonder, if possible, of him.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
fore-and-aft rig
Rachel sings, "This old man, he played one, birds migrate to follow the sun..." An excerpt from what Levi calls the Butterfly Song.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
stink bug
I've always admired these guys' clean appearance and ability to avoid being eaten by birds. Sweeney Ridge fauna.
Monday, May 07, 2007
1bdrm fxr uppr, $525K
A house a couple blocks away collapsed when it fell off its jacks while the owners were laying a new foundation. Thoughtful contractors, willing to lend a hand, stuck their business cards in the pile of gravel out front. This was a one-bedroom, 870-square-foot cottage that sold for the obscenely low price $525,000 last year. One corner of the house poked into the neighbors to the east, while the other corner slewed over into a narrow mini-park.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
macro bee
Anybody have a good bee identification reference book or Web site? This bee is sampling the delights of our pride of Madeira plant.
jumping spider
I love these little guys. I once saw one jump and catch a fly in midair. It was tethered by a silk thread.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Caroline pontificates
Caroline offers one of a small handful of opinions she possesses on a narrow range of subjects.
Monday, April 09, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
tele Stephen
Here I am bombing down through the quasi-untracked quasi-powder on the slope across from Ostrander Hut in Yosemite. Photo courtesy Brian M.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
martial artist
In this photo, Levi is about to leap into the air to fend off a ninja attacking me from behind. For you martial-arts experts, he's in the Siamese upholstery-claw position.
long-billed curlew
A long-billed curlew flies above Stinson Beach. I thought it was a whimbrel but I was led astray by Sibley.
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