Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The sun also rises
Fun thing about the taking of these rose pictures. I took them with the Vivitar, which has a broken light meter. Exposure is all guess.
Vivitar V3000S
Vivitar 50 mm f/1:1.7
Kodak BW 400 CN
Shutter ?, fstop ?
Walgreens scan,
Monday, July 28, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Counter Comrade
I've been a regular lunch customer at Jeri's for years. It's run by Jeri and her family. I sit at the counter, I know her kids. We brought James in to meet them.
This is Toni, Jeri's daughter. She works the front of the place, while Jeri cooks in back. Toni is my buddy.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Ties that bind
Took this back in April, but I think it somehow never made it to the blog. One of my favorite portraits of Jae.
7 years, 13 years
Today is Jae and I's wedding anniversary. 7 years. We calculate we've been a couple for at least 13 years. And we still like each other. Weird :-) She is the best thing that's every happened to me, no doubt.
We have some babysitting and a couples massage lined up for this afternoon.
We have some babysitting and a couples massage lined up for this afternoon.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
He was so small
Our little boy is growing up :-)
He rolled from his stomach to his back for the third time, today. He did it the first time about a week ago. We weren't sure if it was a fluke. He's done it twice more. He's about 14 or 15 pounds. He's getting noticeably louder. He's been very vocal for a couple weeks, but the volume is really going up.
He's very alert. He'll watch you from the other room, now, and is very aware of whether or not you are paying attention to him.
It's amazing how fast they develop.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Saturday, July 05, 2008
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
This blog recently has been about the miracle of birth, about life, about joy. I've been doing my best to ignore the flip side, the endings that surround us in equal portion to the beginnings. I've avoided thinking about it in hopes of not feeling about it. You can't hide, though. In the very act of trying to duck-and-cover, the reminders are there, ingrained in everything we do.
Alongside Dr. Seuss, I read some Shakespeare to James. Not safe. Taking great joy in reading to the little bug the other day, I happened on this sonnet.
LXIV.
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate—
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Too close to home.
Alongside Dr. Seuss, I read some Shakespeare to James. Not safe. Taking great joy in reading to the little bug the other day, I happened on this sonnet.
LXIV.
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate—
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Too close to home.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
In a dark and dusty mirror
Yashica FX-3 Super 2000
Yashica lens 50 mm f/1:1.9
Kodak BW 400 CN
Walgreens scan,
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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