My younger daughter finally relented and allowed her hair to be cut. Thus ended her quest to be Rapunzel. However, to ease the pain, she was given the “rainbow” treatment. Her hair was sprayed with multiple colors of a spray-in, washable color dye. Then it got braided into a mermaid tail. This picture is after the cut and color, but just before the braid. I have to say, it was pretty awesome.
Special thanks to the folks at La Ruche for taking good care of her.
Happy Spring, everyone.
This is what Spring looks like in New England. It happens a little more often than I’d care for.
Luckily it’s going to be in the fifties the rest of the week, so this snow won’t hang around too long.
But still…
Still trying to improve my night photography using an iPhone. Feels like it’s still eluding me. It might be the kind of thing that an iPhone is simply never good at. They always come out too grainy. Oh well.
Shot with ProCam.
I’ve sat in this hallway at least a hundred times. It’s where parents squat while waiting for their kids to be finished with ballet class. Today, between classes, waiting to pick my daughter up, I snapped off a quick photo. Normally it’s just an ordinary hallway. But with a light out at one end of the hallway, and applying a little noir filter in Snapseed, it suddenly became a hallway I would not walk down if you paid me.
Once in a while, as I walk during my lunch break, I come across a visual that reminds me of just how tiny we humans are. Most of the time, it’s clouds that make me feel that way. I have a bit of a love affair with clouds, so this is probably not the last picture you’ll see on this blog of clouds. In this case, I thought I’d post this photo, since, a few days from now, the sky will be gray and snow will be falling. Springtime in New England, folks.
Everyone else is posting pictures of green beer today. Or shamrocks. Or Irish flags. Or leprechauns. You get the idea.
Not me. Today my car hit 200,000 miles.
I drive an ’06 Honda Civic. I’ve had it for ten years, bought it new. It’s been paid off for five. I had a job for three and a half years that had me driving 122 miles round trip every day. I put a lot of miles on my car, and not once did it complain. Truth be told, if it dropped dead tomorrow, I’d have no right to complain. It’s been solid for ten years. Sure, it has its issues. The A/C doesn’t work anymore, the front speakers don’t work either, the top of the center console broke off and just rests on the console.
And I don’t care. I’d buy another one in a heartbeat.
I’m in the middle of some editing/early reading of the work of a friend of mine. Something about having my writing crap spread out on the table just begged to have a picture taken. Then, once taken, it just begged to be altered in Snapseed. Only too happy to oblige.
Given that we are pet owners once again, I find I’m looking around at all the things that need to get picked up and tucked away so that they don’t become chew toys.
I found myself seeing old things that I hadn’t looked at in a long time. Case in point, the picture above. This is a bar we have in the house. It’s an old piece of furniture that I got from my parents at one point as a hand-me-down. As you can see, the front of it is a little wrecked.
You see, several years ago, we had cats. Two of them. They were my wife’s before we met and they came as part of the packaged deal. I really grew to love those two furry menaces. They ended up being borderline lap cats as they aged. But in their youth, they were, shall we say, active.
The scratches on the front of this bar are from their rear claws as they tried to gain purchase while jumping up onto the bar. I suppose I could have the bar refinished, but truth be told, I like the way it looks.
What I’d rather be doing tonight instead of working out…
View from the balcony of the church in the center of town. Taken with Hipstamatic with the Zytlus wide angle lens attached.
Scott Lyerly 