Author: pete

  • Different Tastes

    Different Tastes

    Only one of these two is very excited about the Nintendo that Willy is holding.

  • Grooming Day

    Grooming Day

    Clean dog gets to lounge wherever! And ride in whatever car! Here, the fun one. Less fun with a huge animal in the back.

  • November Nights

    November Nights

    The things that only a camera can see.. dramatic cloud cover at night.

  • So Squinty

    So Squinty

    Or maybe just falling asleep while standing up. Hard to tell sometimes.

  • More Night Sight

    More Night Sight

    Not the most exciting shot but I like the dramatic effect of the dark trees and the blaring moon.

  • Notvember Things

    Notvember Things

    November is not Grinchy season, but there they are! Also, its not hyacinth season.. but there.. they are? Weird Fall continues.

  • Right Light

    Right Light

    Sunshine hits the vapor coming off my coffee – and amazingly lighting up tiny individual water droplets. Neat.

  • Beaver Moon

    Beaver Moon

    The last ‘supermoon’ of 2024 – sure was a good one. Especially when the “night sight” blows it out with all the extra effects. Including the big visible ring – showing icy clounds up there reflecting the light. Go to space.com if you really want to learn about the how and why.

  • That’s a big bird..

    That’s a big bird..

    I thought, as Willy and I walked to school. Then it took off – and wow! A bald eagle right in the neighborhood. Very cool.

  • Cooking by Feel

    Cooking by Feel

    The adhesive and numbers are flaking off rapidly on the stove. Luckily I’ve cooked enough on this thing that the numbers mean nothing – but I feel bad for anyone else that wants to simmer something, fry an egg or make pancakes. Or maybe its just proof that we don’t need 10 numbers to cook…

  • Breakfast Adventures

    Breakfast Adventures

    At some point in the last year I started trying to figure out how to get all parts of an egg sandwich into one component. In a later version, cheese is incorporated, adding grease and crispy goodness. Retrospectively, cheese on top of all this, then a flip, could have worked very well. Instead, bacon, egg…

  • Cue the Pinball Machine

    Cue the Pinball Machine

    The Exploder (built in 11/2007) continues its march through the decades – check out that mileage. Can’t not think of this classic Sesame Street song: