A year ago today we were up in Troy, Montana enjoying an old-fashioned smalltown Independence Day parade and later an afternoon backyard barbeque by Susan’s Uncle Jim followed later by an awesome fireworks display launched from a park beside the Kootenai River (click to enlarge)… that we watched from the front yard of Susan’s grandma’s …
Much to my, surprise the photo I posted yesterday, which I justthisminute retitled “Three Minutes With Venus,” drew a pretty large and blessedly empathetic crowd (thanks again to Clifford at Asymptotia pointing at it and laughing — with me, not at me!). Not that I need to follow it up, but along the same lines …
While I may not be the dimmest bulb shining, this photo below clearly illustrates I am definitively no where near being the brightest (click for slight enlargement): What the hell is that, you ask? Fair question. And the answer is that it is a three-minute exposure of the planet Venus — and no, it’s not …
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Maybe I’ve written of it before, but my favorite time of my childhood was when I lived on Holly Drive in Hollywood in the mid-1970s, primarily because there were a bunch of neighborhood kids around my age and there was a vacant lot on the corner where we’d have occasional baseball games and dirtclod fights. …
Caught you! You lousy… paper… thieving… Cat?! Alas, after putting out the decoy paper this neighborhood feline proved to have the most interest of any of the parade of beings that my surveillance camera caught passing by between about 8:30 p.m. last night and a little after 9 a.m. this morning. The switch-and-bait manuever occured …
Chances are good that you as a resident of the city and county of Los Angeles are in possession of some sort of hazardous material. Maybe it’s an old computer monitor stuck in the back of your closet or that quart of Navajo White paint you bought from Home Depot to touch up the livingroom …
Well, everything’s in place to catch a petty thief. I have a “dummy” Sunday paper ready with which to get up early and bait the trap, I have the DV cam aimed in the right direction and I have the software set (fingers crossed) to automatically record Quicktime movies whenever the motion sensor is tripped. …