Wednesday, 8 August 2007
Guess what we’ll be doing? Yes, exterior painting—the screen porch trim—and staining—the whole house. We figure if we stretch it out over enough days, it won’t seem too formidable.
Now, to the store to get a 12-pack for post-scraping and post-painting and post-staining downtime!
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Today we hosted a day-long biz meeting here at the house, where we talked about sims and 3-D of archaeological sites and topics. Exciting!
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
Gorgeous night for fireworks-watching. Cool. Low humidity.
Oooooooh! Aaaaaaaaaah!
Sunday, 24 June 2007
A long time ago in another life, I worked for a contract archaeology firm in Athens, GA [no link]. Last week the NYTimes included a quote from one of my then-bosses, Tom Gresham.
Another friend, who works for the state DNR, wrote a book on Georgia cemeteries, in part because of this very problem: people, especially developers, buying land that has a special surprise, a cemetery. Several years back the state legislature ramped up laws regulating disturbance of human remains, which was aimed at preserving Indian sites. Since, lots of folks have found they’ve had to change their plans for lands that include historic cemeteries and burials, too.
And the picture, that was me jumping for an undergraduate acquaintance back when I was living in Athens (and Atlanta, at the same time: whew!) who had a journalism photography class and was assigned to take some action pictures of people jumping, to learn to click the shutter at just the right moment. How different that experience might be today using a digital camera!
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Backlighting is a powerful visual effect.
Backlighting plus dew: a handful of trump cards!
Every once in a while a cosmic alignment occurs and the steep-angle light post-dawn makes the dew into strings of clear gems, here on an overgrown asparagus, also decorated with a few berries. Festooned with spider webs, the effect is magical.
Know that my feet were bare, drippy wet from the dew on the lawn, and cold, ’cause mornings are almost always cool in the UP, even in August.
Know that my arms were warmed by the sun.
After I took almost a hundred images, I went inside to be warmed by coffee and a laptop review of the images I’d just taken.
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
In honor of my Bro’s b-day today (forty-something), how ’bout some science? Since he’s a scientist, of course (that’s him in front of me)….
Here is an article by Heike Vibrans, “Epianthropochory in Mexican Weed Communities.” The title and abstract sent me to the dictionary (sometimes Wikipedia) multiple times….
epianthropochory
humans as dispersers of species, here weeds from fields (I gather)
Bonus points: agrestal
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
Celebrating this holiday with our houseguest, my SIL, Amtraking around the US on a business trip….
May we recommend an Alon’s carrot cake!
Saturday, 14 April 2007
Signs: commands from those not present, hopeful that passers-by will pay attention.
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Southern Michigan—no snow like yesterday in the UP; instead, rain (don’t ask me why the flag is still out, but they do have a light on it…). No tripod (trípie, for those of you learning (Mexican) Spanish—say tree-pee-eh, the last syllable pronounced like the last word of “Say yah! to the UP, eh!”), so the image is blurry, but I love the colors!
Thursday, 8 March 2007
Somehow the sunlight seems richer and more lush now, prior to the spring-forward time change—which will have no adverse affect on my Mac! Yea!