Jun 21, 2024
A melon, with a Dust Mite for scale
—orc Fri Jun 21 23:52:38 2024
Jun 14, 2024
Dust Mite and a waffle box.
—orc Fri Jun 14 23:15:37 2024
Jun 07, 2024
Dust Mite helps me load the dishwasher
—orc Fri Jun 7 23:54:32 2024
Jun 02, 2024
A photostitched (as if you couldn’t tell :-) image of wall art on the shell of a burned-out and repurposed as a parking lot industrial building in inner SE Portland. It has, ahem, been a while since I’ve put up a new banner (thanks, I guess, to late-onset dysphoria?) but finally something other than the Parsons Vale business train in the mid 1960s.
—orc Sun Jun 2 20:43:11 2024
May 31, 2024
Dust Mite, Thor, and Thor’s heated pillow
7Artisans 50mm f0.95 lens, manual focusing at somewhere between f1.0 and f1.4, so everything is just melting into the bokeh.
—orc Fri May 31 19:12:05 2024
May 29, 2024
I was returning a repaired longjohn, so I had to find some way to get back home. Fortunately, I’ve got the disco travel bike at the ready for just this sort of activity.
—orc Wed May 29 10:44:48 2024
May 24, 2024
Dust Mite has an impressionist snack
—orc Fri May 24 23:43:23 2024
May 21, 2024
578 works in Winona while trainspotters document the atrocities.
—orc Tue May 21 22:27:33 2024
May 17, 2024
Dust Mite is on holiday today, so its large and useful sibling will be your Dust Mite of the evening
—orc Fri May 17 23:35:15 2024
May 14, 2024
A floofy cat through a super-fast lens
—orc Tue May 14 01:23:00 2024
May 13, 2024
Not quite so much retouching this time around; I took the mighty *istDS & my SMC 1:1.2 lens out, did some looong exposures, then photoshopped some saturation & contrast into the photos.
But maybe? I think I might have seen some flickering about the same time I took these photos, but (shrug emoji)
—orc Mon May 13 00:41:54 2024
May 11, 2024
Enhance! Enhance! And those blurry maybe-they’re-moving-and-it’s-not-just-cataracts resolve to yes I have finally managed to for sure see a (blown out by city glow) CME’s collision with the planet that I live on.
Sadly, the doomsters prediction of the CME blowing up city power didn’t come true, so I didn’t get a chance to see a fully functioning death star in action.
—orc Sat May 11 01:53:16 2024
May 10, 2024
Exploring my frontiers of photo retouching after Dust Mite & I went to Tomcat Bikes to pick up a trailer part to modify.
—orc Fri May 10 23:30:15 2024
May 09, 2024
#576 as I remember it; switching the North La Crosse yard (now 50 years ago).
—orc Thu May 9 01:57:55 2024
May 03, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
Thor & Dust Mite catnap
—orc Fri Apr 26 23:55:08 2024
Apr 20, 2024
Stopping by the virtual house on Leif Erikson Drive after a couple of years away from Tualatin Mountain/Forest Park
—orc Sat Apr 20 23:20:21 2024
Apr 19, 2024
Cozily sitting in the new recliner with several hundred million of its (smaller) friends
—orc Fri Apr 19 22:28:36 2024
Apr 12, 2024
It may not be very good chocolate, but it is still chocolate
—orc Fri Apr 12 23:49:19 2024
Apr 05, 2024
Dust Mite & cherry blossoms
We live just north of the farm where Bing developed his self-named cherry variety, and when we moved into our house there was a huge and ancient bing cherry tree slowly dying in the backyard. I think this may have been a first-generation bing, and in the last few years before it joined the choir invisible it produced bumper crops of completely inaccessable cherries (the tree was about 25 feet tall and the lowest living branch was 15 feet up, so no we couldn’t harvest the cherries at all) and one of them ended up setting root next to our dining room window. It’s now about 16 years old and it’s producing a fine crop of cherry blossoms (and presumably a fine crop of cherries, but the local squirrels & birds get most of them), but is sheltered enough so that it goes into bloom about a week after most of the other local cherries do.
This year Dust Mite managed to get out and see the cherry flowers before they all blew away.
—orc Fri Apr 5 23:59:22 2024
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