From the monthly archives:

January 2009

30 Minutes with Photoshop

29 January 2009

I have a desktop widget that acts as a sideshows photo frame on my development machine. Having something pleasant to stare at when my mind goes blank on a problem is nice.
This morning, during a particularly intense “now how the hell is that supposed to work” spell the photo below came up.
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New Gallery Software

25 January 2009

I have added an instance of Zen Photo for Ms. Shoes.
The first album is a set of photos that I took this morning of birds visiting our bird feeders. (yes that is snow, again.)
Click on the picture to go to the gallery!

Tagged as: birds, feeders, snow

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Jim Moves Up From Rock Band

25 January 2009

Last week Jim got a new guitar – something a little more challenging…

Tagged as: guitar, jim

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Garden Report – The Aftermath

10 January 2009

Now that most of the snow is melted it’s time to have a good look at the garden and assess the damages.
There aren’t really any surprises. Most of the damage was done by the very cold temperatures on Dec 19th (10.4F) and Dec 20th (4.1F)
Among the casualties:
I don’t know if the euphorbia will recover. The [...]

Tagged as: butterfly bush, euphorbia, mint, sage

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Flood Update – and Gallery Test

9 January 2009

We drove to town this afternoon to get the mail (Yeah, I know no way for us to get out = no way for the mail to get in.)
I got these shots of Cherry Valley and the Snoqualmie River (from a moving vehicle…)
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Note that the little white peaks in the last picture [...]

Tagged as: duvall, floods, roads

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Wooza

9 January 2009

This photo of Woodinville-Duvall Road through the Snoqualmie valley was sent to Jim by Jerry one of the fellows in SVARC. The “un-official” version is that it will take 4 days to fix. We surmise that it’s damage to the road surface and not to the underlying bridge structure because the traffic camera showed [...]

Tagged as: duvall, flood, roads

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Snow Report – a Little Late

9 January 2009

The snow has just about all melted – now we’re having floods. But here are a few of the best pictures from the December snow storms.
We are very grateful to have Adventure Truck on our side.  He got us off the farm and safely back every single day of the storm except Christmas. [...]

Tagged as: birds, farm, ivan, snow, tugger

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w.t.f

5 January 2009

so the other day as i was looking through some of the thousands of folders of photos we have i found this one.
other than the catchy rhyme it’s a lousy sign.
i just want to know who they (the people who designed the sign) think is going to understand that this is where you should go [...]

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