Well, not new, exactly, but new-to-here. Since I’ve moved to civilization and have ditched the old dial-up account I’ve had for 5+ years, I lost the tiny personal website I had on their server space. The images there were really tiny, to conserve space, and were mostly of pets. I spent yesterday evening going through a stack of photos, scanning them and doing some basic Photoshopping. (Not surprisingly, I’ve managed to get some sort of goop speckled all over my scanner bed, probably from scanning oil pastel drawings directly on the glass. Oops! I’ve cleaned and cleaned and cleaned it, but I’m having to do a huge amount of correction to remove speckles. It’s not difficult, but it is tedious.)
Anyway, I’ll probably be posting a bunch of them here over the next few days. There are some photos of Pandora that I’ve never scanned, and don’t even remember taking. And there are photos of Gabe’s cat, Ajis, and one of her litters of kittens. Kitten photos are always entertaining, right? The best, though, are two series of photos I took of the dogs playing–one indoors, right after I got Harriet, and one in the snow, after I’d moved to Owen County. The photo quality isn’t great, because I was using a 35mm point-and-shoot camera, but they’re still some of the best dog photos I’ve taken.
The only wooden aqueduct still in active use in the US, Metamora, Indiana
We lived in Metamora from 1978-1982. In the summers we used to swim in the canal and play inside the aqueduct. The water is down in this photo, but when the canal boat is running, the lock downstream is shut, and the water level rises, making it a decent depth for swimming. I always liked swimming and playing inside the aqueduct itself, because the floor was sheathed in metal. I hated getting my feet all muddy, walking on the bottom of the canal.
red paper boat 