anacronyms

In contrast to most previous Flickr Babes, this week’s find is, it seems, a model. The image, while casual looking, is a professional one. I just had to put this photo in because I found it so arresting. It’s the eyes, I think, and the open blue jeans across broad hips. She doesn’t have the [...]

Whew, six days since my last post. I plead busy-ness. I’ve been spending a lot of time with my new toy-which-is-not-a-toy, the digital camera. I’ve discovered that I’ve lost a lot of my photographic eye. I used to be able to get ten good shots in thirty-six, with two or three really good. Now I [...]

I don’t know how old the Mayne Island Fall Fair is. I think it’s probably been an annual tradition for what on the west coast of Canada is a long time, more than a hundred years. It feels (for this part of the world) old. Perhaps that means that if it isn’t old, it should [...]

I wonder if I should be numbering these with roman numerals?

No longer in the flush of youth, she is beautiful.

‘PNE’ is an abbreviation of Pacific National Exhibition. It was, at one time, a very large agricultural fair, and has been an annual tradition for generations of British Columbians. I have been attending for twenty years. I first started going in 1987, when I moved to Vancouver.
The sxKitten, on the other hand, has been going [...]

Mingle2 – Portland Singles

Via Microsoar.

I ordered the D80 from Vistek on Thursday night. On Friday I got a confirmation email that the order had been processed and shipped, and when I got home from work today, there was a package marker in the mailbox. I went in, and picked it up.
Two hours on the charger, and this is the [...]

I can feel fall in the air. The morning has an edge now. It’s slight, but it’s there. The smells have changed from the exuberant sweetness of new life and growing things to the dry warmth of midsummer: hay and dry grass and mature seeds.
With it comes fall fairs, and one of the earliest [...]

I have been saving my pennies. I opened a separate bank account for Things Which Are Important To Dean and To Nobody Else Except Perhaps Tangentially. I’ve been tucking money in there, $50 here, $100 there, a bit from my tax refund, a bit from the sale of fiction, some found money… etc.
I now have [...]