Warm Weather Photo

Since it's winter and finally starting to get seriously cold, I think it's about time for some warm weather photos. Looks nice, doesn't it? White sand, turquoise water and a clear blue sky.... ahhh!

FLEAS Navidad

AJ wishes you a FLEAS Navidad

Merry Christmas

Love my "lights out of focus" photos... & Merry Christmas!

NJ Winter

It's been raining instead of snowing here in NJ this winter. I'll be fine if it's not a white Christmas. The memories are still fresh of frozen, white New England winters... I do not miss them yet.

Santa! I Know What I Want This Year

Christmas Cookies!!!

Every year my mom makes probably 400 cookies. Who ever is at home helps decorate (this year, just me and mom). You can tell how tired we are by how messy or crazy the decorating is. No matter what they look like, they're always delicious.

Photobombing Petey

While this is not a traditional photobomb, it still counts. This dog loves to come over to see what I'm doing, and in the meantime plop himself down in a very inconvenient spot. He's got a nose for it.

Jolly Holly

There's a row of holly plants/bushes on our block and just one has berries. The rest are straight up green.

Cactus Teachings

My favorite chapter of my favorite book, by Michael Crichton, is called "Cactus Teachings." In it, Crichton speaks to a cactus. Sometimes, the cactus speaks back.

I've had this cactus for like 15 years... it was the size and shape of a tennis ball when I got it and after all that time, it's only about 6 inches tall. I like this plant because I can forget to water it for a month and it's no problem.

Men Sew Too

My brother's first time on the sewing machine. He got a jump start on Christmas presents this year, that's all I'm going to say :-)

Hasten Home

Driving home on a fall evening (don't worry, I wasn't driving.) I like how the sky turned out.

Smoke Signals

This was in the sky.

Turkey Butts

This morning as I left the house, I saw a whole gaggle of turkeys across the street. Of course they stayed hidden during Thanksgiving! Smart move, local turkeys.

Ice Storm

Found in the archives. Glad the weather has been pretty mild so far this year. (Except for that random Oct snowstorm)

Birch

Happy Thanksgiving!

I really wanted to post a picture of some turkeys because there are a ton of them that wander around our neighborhood, but I haven't seen any lately. (Smart birds! Hiding out until tomorrow, probably.) But! If you want to see some turkeys from NH I got you covered.

FOCUS

Sometimes when I get tired, this is what I see.

Pensive Petey

Skyline at Night

I like these both, so I decided what the heck, show 'em both! I think the city looks like a colorful castle.

Upside-Down Goggles

Yeah, guys, take off your upside-down goggles when you use the stairs! (Part of the Carsten Höller: Experience at the New Museum in NYC.) There was a line for the goggles (which used mirrors to flip your vision UPSIDE-DOWN!) but since it was so massive, we skipped the goggles and just went through the museum without them.

ART

A room in the Carsten Höller: Experience at the New Museum in NYC. The only lights were two sets of alternately blinking florescent lights all along two walls. It was hard to see in there. There were also weird animals on the floor.

FireSky

Slightly blurry, but I realized after that I had the camera still set to macro. Look at those colors!

A Bridge of Vertical Distance

Love the Wikipedia definition of stairs. Also, you can learn a whole lot about the different kinds of steps, if you're interested. Thanks, Wikipedia!

Hot Dog

One of the joys of being a pet owner is the ability to dress them up in whatever silly outfit you feel like.

STRESS

This is what driving in NJ can feel like.

Pizza Town USA

Definitely had the Golden Corral series in mind when I took this one.

Rt 46

Night time photography. A most interesting lamp post.

Skylight & Snow

The skylight the day after the snow storm.

Cerulean & Canary

This is the sky the day after the snowstorm.

Snowy Halloween

Mama and her terrifying pumpkin wish you a chilling Halloween.

SNOWpocalypse 2011

Yesterday we had about 7" of snow dumped on us in a record-breaking October snowstorm! Today I walked around the neighborhood to see all the damage. We still have power, thankfully, but there are a lot of tree branches down:


I was driving around yesterday (got my only real haircut in 3.5 years; it was free; I donated 13") and was in my first-ever car accident (it was just a fender bender, no injuries). A young lady who has probably never driven in snow in her life, slid into my car and her license plate decoration- a ROW OF SPIKES- was impaled in my bumper. What fun!

NaNoWriMo

This November I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month! It's pretty straightforward: from Nov. 1 thru Nov. 30, I (and about 200,000 other writers) will attempt to write a 50,000 word fiction novel.

In one month. 50,000 words. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? (By the way, that's about 108 pages, single spaced in Word) (!!!!)

Everyone out there seems to be working on a novel-- including myself. However, all I've got are a few pages of ideas, a list of characters and zero plot, and it's been in progress for a while. So when I heard about NaNoWriMo a few years ago, I thought "this is such an awesome idea!" but immediately forgot about it. The next year I suddenly remembered about it-- during the month of November. This year I saw it in my bookmarks in September and decided I was actually going to sign up!

So November is just a few days away and the experts recommend trying to bang out like 25,000 words the first week. I'm very scared. Very excited, but very, very scared.

Take a Guess!

I challenge you to guess what the subject of this unedited picture is / how I took this photo. (I cropped out a lot more black all around, but did no color corrections or other editing of any kind.)

Ghosty

Happy Halloween!!!

gra·tu·i·tous self portrait

gra·tu·i·tous - (adj) : Uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted.

I miss those sunglasses. They were sturdy and unscratched and I lost them because of karma.

Chain Link Fence

That's the American Flag in the center, way in the distance.

Rings & Springs

I've been going through some of my old photos and finding some random ones. I know this was taken by the baseball fields by our old house, but I have no idea what these are. I think they were attached to a soccer goal post but....

For Mom

I used my cell phone flipped open to write this sentence. The keypad has a blue back light, so that's how I got both colors!

Scott Hall's Blooms

Taken on campus at UNH.

I think this one would have been so awesome if ANYTHING had been in focus!

Fables and Flowers

Kind of looks photoshopped or something, yes? Took this a long time ago, before I knew how to use macro. Could probably use a good cropping.

Blur

Still waiting for the leaves to really change in NJ, so here's more NH foliage from the archives.

Mountains and Lakes

Sometimes I miss New Hampshire.

Fall Is Here

Haven't seen any leaves this color yet, but they're coming.

Today

It's my birthday. I attempted to draw a cupcake over there on the right, but...!