Again, I couldn’t get even one coworker to get up off their ass and walk ten feet to the window, to look at the sky. I can’t imagine ever taking something so beautiful for granted.
Category: Photography
Stinkeye
I trimmed Thomas’ nail today. Just the one. And now he’s judging the hell out of me.
Just wait until tomorrow, when he finds out I’m going to trim another one. And another one, and another one, and another one.
Vive la résistance
I like to think that Thomas ate my cable bill as an act of political protest against our corporate overlords.
Tuesday Butterflies
Hobomok Skippers (yes, two of them)
Monarch Butterfly
Belt of Venus
This was the view to the west this morning, just before the sun rose. A thin band of clouds intensified the pink of the Belt of Venus.
Sundogs
Left to right: Harriet the Boxer, Frances the Boxer x Pit Bull, and Thomas the Boxer x Klingon
I got into a bizarre discussion on Facebook with a former animal shelter ACO who believes that folks who live in apartments should not own dogs. She thinks that a fenced yard should be required, and that lack of one is dog abuse. (And weirder, she feels that it’s also abusive to have children in apartments.)
Can you just imagine if the millions and millions of city dwellers in the world no longer had dogs (or children)? We would have to kill even more dogs than we already kill, and for what? The lack of a mythical “perfect” home? That’s kind of monstrous.
So here are the three dogs I’ve had while living in my current apartment. I don’t think they look miserable. Sure, in a perfect world, we’d all have acres of flowered fields and enchanted forests to play in, but that isn’t the world most people inhabit, and that’s okay. Dogs are incredibly adaptable, and lucky for everyone, they mostly just want a chance to play, to go for walks, and to hang out with their people.
Tiny Teefs
This is the view from the audience when Thomas plays tug.
Harvestmen
This is by way of a test post. I’ve been using the FlickStackr app to grab HTML for my images on Flickr, so I can pop them into blog posts.
The official Flickr app does not allow grabbing HTML. It does have a share to WordPress option though.
ETA: The reason I’m testing this option is that the FlickStackr app has been pulled from the app store by Apple. Hmf. The developer has had his development account shut down, so if the app stops working for some reason, it won’t be updated. On to Plan B!
ETA 2: Now that I can look at how WordPress handles this sort of image post, on the back side, I’m not happy about it as a long term solution. Instead of the image being hosted on Flickr, it’s copied to my WordPress media folder and displayed from there. That eats up storage on my free account. I also just don’t want to store anything of mine in my media folder. It’s a waste, since the images are already stored on Flickr and sharable from there. Hmf. Hopefully before FlickStackr gets broken by a Flickr redesign, someone else will come up with an app that grabs HTML/BBcode. (Or, rather, one that actually works. There are a few that claim to grab Flickr HTML/BBcode, but that function doesn’t work.)
In the meantime, I edited the Harvestmen image to point at Flickr.
Great Spangled Fritillary
I don’t remember seeing many of these guys in previous years. They’ve been regular visitors this summer.
Fog Lifting
We had storms and a ton of rain last night (with flash flood warnings). Early this morning when I walked the dog, it was warm and foggy (and sticky and generally kind of gross). When I went to the kitchenette to microwave my oatmeal at around 8:00, the fog was lifting to the west.
red paper boat 