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Random musing, updates on what I’m building, and just things I might find interesting.

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  • When Is It Time to Stop with the Happy New Year?

    I heard a cheerful “Happy New Year” said by someone, I’ll call them “Kate,” talking on the phone yesterday. As I’m typing this, “Yesterday” was January 9th, and I thought to myself “Isn’t it a little late to be wishing someone that their new year should be happy?” It just seemed too late. So many…

  • Lights and Ice

    While we were out in Washington state for a wedding, me, my wife, and her family had some time to kill. Sure, we were hoping for better weather, but coming from Chicago we weren’t going to let a little ol’ ice storm keep us down. We were off to a winery! My wife found a…

  • So You’re Going to Hawaii

    Words or Pictures? Why not both! So you’re going to Hawaii? Ever since we met my wife and I wanted to visit the Paradise of the Pacific, and in October we were finally able to pull off the trip. We asked people for things to do, things to see, read the Hawaii guidebooks (these were…

  • Power Moon

    I just found this picture kind of neat with the crescent moon partially framed by the power feed into a building.

  • It Might Be Bronchitis

    What are four words you don’t want to hear from a person in front of you on an airplane? That’s right, “It might be bronchitis.” Those were the words that the companion of a man, in the row in front of me, said to the flight attendant. A wonderful vacation to Hawaii had just taken…

  • Watching the Sun Rise Together

    I caught a pair of doves the other morning, just sitting on the wires, watching the sun rise. Sure, they probably weren’t watching the sun rise, and just doing whatever it is that doves do together, but it was nice to think of them as a couple of lovebirds, enjoying the beauty of the start…

  • Watch Your Relations With Other People Carefully Are Reserved

    What in the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks? I couldn’t sleep last night. Why? All I kept wondering was what our fortune meant. The little slip of paper read, “Watch your relations with other people carefully are reserved.” As no dreams came to me, and no visions of mindful illumination awakened my senses, I must turn to…

  • Sunrise at Danada Forest Preserve – Wheaton, IL – August 2017

    I saw the sun rising on the way to work one morning. I said to myself, “Self, that’s a pretty sunrise.” Then I asked myself, “Self, would I rather see a sunrise while driving my car, or while christening nature?” The next day I grabbed my camera and headed to the Danada Forest Preserve in…

  • Cantigny Park – Wheaton IL – 2017

    The other day my wife and I had some spare time on a Sunday so we went to visit Cantigny Park. I’ve never been there, my wife had, but the place is beautiful. It’s photo time! We kind of went for their French Connection Day, but also used that as a good excuse to go. The…

  • Oodles of Beauty and Joy – The Gardens at Ball

    A Garden in an Industrial Park? There are surprise discoveries in one’s life that can bring even more oodles of beauty and joy to one’s perfect, summer day than just, well, a perfect, summer day. Thanks to my cousin, Ron, and his wife, Vicky, I got to experience more oodles of beauty and joy, on…

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