Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
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It took a few days, but the photos from our trip up to Anchorage to visit my parents are finally up.
I’ve also added three of the shots from the trip to the header image rotation. At this rate, I’m going to be very winter and snow biased…I’ll have to add some more spring and summertime shots in a few months!
A bit of silliness on Flickr these days: if you add a note that says simply ‘ho ho ho hat’ to a photo, Flickr will add a Santa hat to the photo where the note is placed.
There’s a few people getting up in arms about the ‘defacement’ of their photos, but if you decide you don’t like this, you can simply delete the note. I see it as a harmless bit of holiday silliness.
And I like harmless silliness.
A small selection of photos from an evening walk last night, after Seattle got an unusually heavy snowfall.
“Aitch-ay-a-double-ell-oh-doubleyou-double-ee-en (Live)” by Webley, Jason from the album Halloween Special 2001 (2001, 1:46).
I’ve been holding off on saying anything about this just in case something fell through, but since I got the check in the mail today, I figure it’s worth letting the cat out of the bag…
…the freakin’ New Yorker just purchased one of my photos to use in an ‘advertorial’ for the MGM Grand casino for $250!
The photo will be part of a spread in the Nov. 27th issue of the magazine.
Too cool!
“It’s De-Lovely” by Williams, Robbie from the album De-Lovely (2004, 4:40).
“Medley: Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In” by The 5th Dimension from the album Forrest Gump (1969, 4:49).
Spent a very nice day at the Woodland Park Zoo today. I’ve got the photos sorted out and almost ready to upload, but there’s still a few I want to tweak a bit before sending them up. That’ll come tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ve uploaded four taken today of either Prairie or me. Consider it something of a ‘teaser’. Here’s the other three…
“True Love” by Original Cast from the album De-Lovely (2004, 2:09).
The trip to Mt. Rainier was wonderful. Really cloudy the first two days, to the point where we couldn’t even see the mountain, but we got to spend the days hiking and exploring some of the trails. We even had some close encounters with lots of chipmunks and Stellar Jays, a few deer, and two Hoary Marmots (the whoriest marmots in the entire park, you should have seen the brazen way they winked at us). The weather cleared up on Thursday morning, so we were able to get some views of the mountain before we had to head back up to Seattle.
Here’s all the photos from the weekend.
Over the past couple days, Xebeth‘s been going through another round of treatments. It’s been intense and rather frightening at times, but, true to form, she’s still putting up a fight — matter of fact, for this girl, merely knocking on death’s door wasn’t enough. She had to knock, push the door open, and take a look around the other side for a few minutes before finally deciding that it wasn’t quite time to step through just yet and turn back around.
Personally, I think she’s just getting a little lonely in that big ol’ hospital bed, and is determined to give the rest of us heart attacks so we can all be lined up in a row on either side of her to keep her company.
Things are improving now, thankfully. She’s got her family and close friends around her there, and as much mojo as Prairie and I can send from Seattle heading her way. Between that and the girl having a stubborn streak a mile wide, we’ll be keeping her around for as long as we can — and relishing every last little moment of it.
“Backdraft” by Apoptygma Berzerk (4:18).
“Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree” by Glenn Miller Orchestra from the album The 40’s – Glenn Miller Orchestra (2000, 3:06).