Nowadays, I seem to get to these posts about a month later. We were in Phoenix in March, one of those spouse-tags-along-to-conference trips. We also went up to see the red rock cliffs of Sedona for a day. As usual, pictures:
The area’s main places of interest we went to: Frank Lloyd Wright’s [...]
Given that we were in Key West at the beginning of February, I’d like to blame something sexy like “writer’s block” rather than the more pedestrian “laziness” for the long delay in getting this post out. But, yeah, “laziness” is a far better explanation.
Cleveland, at the beginning of February, was god awful cold: single [...]
As our guide pulled the bus through the Jurassic Park-lite gate and electric fencing, she said that The Wilds nature conservancy is equal in land area to all the zoos in North America combined. About 3.5 hours south of Cleveland, its 10,000 acres was donated from an American Electric Power surface mine, and houses [...]
Cleveland’s 4th of July fireworks again, from the roof of a building in the west Flats. You know, fireworks photos more or less look the same, after you’ve seen, say, a dozen or two of them. The photos also aren’t particularly good representations of what you see with the naked eye: exposure times [...]
Grace had one last vacation day left for the academic year ending in June, and we took advantage of a post-call Friday and the vacation day on Monday to go to Niagara and Toronto. Here are the photos:
One day, I’ll combine all this with a Google Maps route-marker, but the verbal description will have [...]
Earlier this month, we spent a few days at Turks and Caicos, specifically at The Sands, a
We were in Chicago this past weekend. Interesting town: I certainly felt more like I was in a big city than Cleveland, with the density of skyscapers and tall buildings being about the same as Manhattan. Parts of the city, of course, recalls New York, while other parts, in the style of, say, [...]
I was in New York earlier this week to help uke for promotion tests at my old dojo, with Itai testing for ikkyu and Gearoid (who I hadn’t met before) testing for yellow belt. Itai and I started at this together, and it was good to see him get to this rank in person. [...]
At the beginning of the month, I submitted a few photos to Shutter Stock, a micro-stock photography site, to see if any income can be generated from the pool of photos I’ve been taking. It took a while for their reviewers to get to my submission batch, but I had a fair number approved [...]
To reduce clutter, we’ve been selling a few old items on eBay recently. To perk up the auction listings, I’ve engaged in some minor product photography. Here are some of Grace’s old shoes:
Links from that page go to all the other auctions.
I think my pictures are a lot better than those found on [...]