Jul 26, 2024
Dust Mite enjoys an afternoon in the garden
—orc Fri Jul 26 20:59:25 2024
Jul 21, 2024
This is from Friday; I’ve spent the rest of the weekend lying in bed asking – by shotgunning paxlovid – the fucking plague to just leave me be.
—orc Sun Jul 21 13:06:28 2024
Jul 19, 2024
A Dust Mite in the mist
—orc Fri Jul 19 23:59:08 2024
Jul 12, 2024
Straight outta The Tortured Poets Department
—orc Fri Jul 12 23:56:59 2024
Jul 05, 2024
We are all huddled inside the house drinking fluids and opening the windows at night, and Dust Mite wants to join in.
—orc Fri Jul 5 23:50:05 2024
Jul 04, 2024
The new bike path at PDX is now open, so of course I used it when I went out to meet SWITCTBN upon her return from North Carolina, and it was just my (good) luck that a downtown-bound train showed up just as I reached this crossing.
—orc Thu Jul 4 23:49:37 2024
Jun 28, 2024
Dust Mite & the disco travel bike stop by the trestle tree sculpture along the Portland Milwaukie Light Rail (a.k.a the Orange Line) on a short ride this afternoon.
—orc Fri Jun 28 23:59:12 2024
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
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