Dave's Blog

Macro

My sister, Becky, recently took a really great close-up of an infant lilac flower which inspired me to try my own amateur hand at digital macro photography. This is a baby pine cone, smaller than a pencil eraser, on a tree in my front yard. It's almost miraculous what these little digital point-and-shoot cameras can do nowadays; super-bright flash (anyone remember expensive flash bulbs that you basically exploded and threw in the garbage?), auto exposure settings for different light situations, black-and-white and lots of other artistic digital darkroom settings, storage space for literally hundreds of photos, not to mention video with sound... it's almost enough to make a guy forget about hard times! Almost.

I guess the main thing is... how cool is this little pine cone?

Do U Haiku?

I got a call the other day from a super-cool woman named Kelly Westhoff, who runs (among many other things) a website called Haiku By Two. The premise is interesting: She and a friend, Alison Kehler, keep a long-distance relationship going by maintaining a haiku blog together.

Anyway, each of them bought one of our Haiku Kits and tried their hands at composition. Here are theirs. And here's mine, along with a short interview that you may find interesting if you're my mom or something.

Another One

These houses are right next door to each other, and almost look like a before and after. Dude should maybe have borrowed his neighbor's hedge clippers!

Twitter Magnets

This is really cool. Check it out:

 

http://twittermagnets.com/

I only wish they had more variety of words and word fragments. Like a good recipe, there are certain ingredients that just have to be there for the dish to be delish'.

Raging

Here's what St. Anthony Falls looked like from the Stone Arch Bridge on Saturday afternoon. Finally figured out how to embed a YouTube video on here!

Brown Getcha' Down?

Then stay away from these parts around this time of year, sunbelter. BTW, you can't really see it in this view but the mighty Mississippi is really high and raging like a mofo right now. Really amazing to look at from the Stone Arch Bridge as it goes over the falls. Makes me wonder what's happening, or is about to happen, south of here as all this water travels.