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Northern California
Autumn light in the woods and hills around Morgan Hill in Northern California, November 2014 on a visit to my brother, Doug.
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Germany
Scenes from Germany in October 2014, including a sunset at Schobull on the North Sea coast. The Glücksburg Castle (Schloss Glücksburg) is located on the Flensburg Fjord approximately 10 km northeast of Flensburg, just off the Baltic in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It’s a renaissance era water castle built between 1582 and 1587, which served as the ancestral…
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New England Landscape
An assortment of landscape photographs from 2014, including the horses on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Italy
A two-week autumn journey through Italy in October 2013, from the streets and bridges of Rome and Florence to the rolling farmland and hill towns of Tuscany and Umbria. This was my first major trip as I began getting back into photography in 2013 after a long absence.
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New England Landscape
A collection of New England landscapes, including the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts.
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New HP dv9000 laptop
This review is from 2007. The laptop came with Windows Vista and it didn’t go well. Vista didn’t work well enough to be usable and HP refused to provide a downgrade path to Windows 7, which was very stable. I had to purchase another laptop to replace this one and stuck with Windows 7 until…
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God’s Debris
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has made his book God’s Debris (2001) a free download. The price is right and the book is interesting. He calls it a thought experiment around the questions: What if there was someone who knew everything? What is God? What should I be doing? There’s a few choice words about…
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Fish Story of Plain Dumb Luck
30 minutes out of the dock the first strike came and one of the Scotts got the chance. 30 seconds later I got a chance. There was only one chair so the crew fitted me with a belt to use to anchor the rod as I pulled in this baby. Six feet of sailfish. I…
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Walking through the Gates and getting hungry
With my sons, parent, sister, and her family I went to the Gates in central park this weekend. It was odd. And somewhat impressive. I’m not really sure that I can say that I liked it but it was a small “experience”. We did get hungry while walking around in the cold but couldn’t find…
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Dealing with a Frozen Drain Pipe
I’ve had a recent success in dealing with a frozen pipe and if you’ve got the same problem you might be interested. The pipe in question is the PVC drain pipe from our kitchen sink. It also handles the output of the dishwasher. With all that hot dishwasher water you’d think it wouldn’t freeze but…
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