A thorough check of the meta tags and a virus check reveals no malware in this website. Garlic smells, yes, but nothing more toxic (or aromatic, depending upon your olfactory and taste buds). But do I know yet how to advise how to know what WordPress site might have malware? Not yet. But I will. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the photography category.
A few sites of note
From a creative mind comes a short article, “When’s the last time you saw a dinosaur winding a watch?” at robpixaday: a day The 411 about Macs: www.mac411ak.com, with Alaska’s first review of the iPad, written by a cool mainframe geek. And an easier-to-navigate RedBubble website, with jant replacing the www as part of the [...]
Zen and the art of taxes
Every tax quarter I vow to organize and file paperwork. Even purchased a new ScanSnap S1500M in an effort to become “paperless”. The title of this is bogus. I have not found any Zen in paperwork or taxes or organizing either. But I did find this: “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is [...]
Good day, sunshine
I need to laugh, and when the sun is out I’ve got something I can laugh about I feel good, in a special way I’m in love and it’s a sunny day Good day sunshine Good day sunshine Good day sunshine We take a walk, the sun is shining down Burns my feet as they [...]
Street photography
Vivian Maier was a street photographer from the 1950s to 1990s. Maier’s work was discovered at an auction in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes about 100,000 mostly medium-format negatives and hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film. Born February 1, 1926, she died on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. John [...]
Change
“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
“On a bed of daffodil sky”
” Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; Maud And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, [...]
NOAA begins a new site
” For as long as humans have been keeping track, large areas of the Arctic Ocean have remained covered by sea ice throughout the year. However, over the past 30 years, the area covered by ice has shown a dramatic decrease. Since satellite-based measurements began in the late 1970s, data show a trend of more [...]
daffydowndilly in winter
“From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens: the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye.” - Katherine S. White • • • The name Daffodil is derived from an earlier “Affodell”, a variant of Asphodel. The reason for the [...]
“Naked Ladies” or Belladonna Lily
From wikipedia: “Amaryllis is a monotypic genus of plant also known as the Belladonna Lily or naked ladies. The single species, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape. It is often confused with Hippeastrum, a flowering bulb commonly sold in the winter months for its ability [...]