such a small stage now.
so much pain, death, suffering, futility, arrogance, loss.
such a small stage now.
such a small stage now.
Only in birth and death are we apt to sing one's praise.
Beauty surrounds, but we only notice when it's new or gone.
Beauty surrounds, but we only notice when it's new or gone.
Mmmmm. Day old Mandorlatini. Thank you, Staff of Life Bakery for your tastiness that you've delivered to Red Front for me all winter long. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Hburg Farmer's Market.
Abundant beauty. Knows no bounds. In awe, I am humbled.
So yeah. i had another hiccup. It looks like while my last g10 was farkin with stuff, it corrupted a memory card. In an effort to save the photo I ended up with a seriously goofy looking photo. Here ya are.
Went up to snag my skis as today was the last day of ski season for Massanutten. Lily walked on the snow a bit and was happy. I'm sad that I don't have a jorb anymore. Oh wells. Time to be a trout bum and do a lot of mountain biking.
This was supposed to be an awesome day of going out the shooting range in the national forest, but when we got there it as closed for cleaning and maintenance and because there are a lot of dumb, in-bred, rednecks that go there and abuse the place and shoot the tables and signs and just participate in general asshattery. So we decided to drive over to Dolly Sods wilderness because there's supposed to be an awesome view with minimal hiking, albeit driving up a rather decent sized mountain on a craptastic dirt road, so there is some work involved, especially when you're driving a Chevy Cavalier. SO we got to the top of the mountain and there's a five mile drive along the top of a ridge to where we wanted to go. No big deal, we'll do it. Except that the gate across that road is locked. So much for that one. We did, however, find an old, semi-abandoned house that looked like a crack/flop house. It had been sheetrocked inside within the last couple years but the outside of it was crumbling away. Inside was full of random trash and torn up pillows and some stuff that looked like it had been used to smoke either meth or crack. I think that was the most interesting thing we found on our drive. Oh well. Today was a day of high adventure with pretty much no pay-of.
A fun day in the sun of filing for unemployment and filling out jorb apps. Enh, we still had some fun and blew some bubbles.
Yesterday at lunch I ate my first piece of broccoli in nearly two years. I love the stuff, but now I remember why I don't eat it anymore. I was in pain till about 3am, then had to get up at 6am to get ready for my last day of "work". I was pooped, and I was also convinced that today was the first day of spring so I took two photos, one to remember winter by, and one to look forward to spring with. Then I got home from skiing and had some time on the compy and realized that I was horribly wrong and that tomorrow is the first day of spring. I'm chock full o'fail today, so you get two photos.
Goodbye, winter. My last paid day at the Nut for the 2008-2009 season.
Hello, Spring. Yes, we're a day early, but we're prepared for your fantastic fickleness.
Goodbye, winter. My last paid day at the Nut for the 2008-2009 season.
Hello, Spring. Yes, we're a day early, but we're prepared for your fantastic fickleness.
Went to the Library this morning. Post nap we took the Bug to the park while I played disc golf with a friend. She and Kimberly had some fun playin on the playground.
St. Patricks Day. Didn't do nothin much green. Discovered that Harrisonburg is secretly trying to make all men nudists because no one other than Penny's sells nice masculine clothing anymore. Had a jorb interview at WHSV. Took about 3 hours. They said I'd hear back within two weeks. Hopefully it's good news. I needs me a real job.
Didn't do much today. Skied. Skiing wasn't bad, but it was soggy and foggy and nasty and everything else.
Spent the day recovering from a hectic weekend. Lots of lounging on the couch and doing nothing. Got really foggy out in the evening.
Denise and Mikey finally got married. It's about time. Here's the happy groom with his new father in law before the ceremony.
Aaaaand it snowed again. Freaking wierd weather we have here in VA in March. I like my snow and cold and skiing and the whatnot, but once I get a taste of spring (and we do have a phenomenal, 3-4 month spring down here), I'm ready for it to stay. Gimme back my ugly, dirty, poo coloured snow.
Poring down rain. Hurried outside at the last minute to snap a quicky in the dark.
Another warm, funky day. Cooled down to the mid 40's. I've never actually been able to watch a storm pass through the valley from the top of the mountain before, so it was fun to watch a rainstorm pound parts of the valley for a couple hours while I sat out and smoked my seegars.
A week ago we had a few inches of fresh snow on the mtn. Since then we've had a few days in the 70's and the what not. Skiing is fin in that spring skiing kind of way, but all in all a bit depressing.
Another warm day. The Bug and I played outside quite a bit.
A good Sunday. I skipped a hike with the guys today to spend some time with the family. When they went down for mid-afternoon naps I headed out to dry river with the new fly rod my Dad gave me to try my hand at catching some trout. I figured as it was my first time casting a dry fly and actually trying to catch a trout, I wouldn't bother with the g10, so instead you get my crappy cell phone camera of a brown trout.
And yet another day at Massanutten. Weather was gorgeous, even if the snow was only ok.
A great day out at the range. Got my 10-22 sighted in at 25 yards. Next time I head out there I'm gonna work it out to 50 yards.
A beautiful day at the Nut. Got a lot of reading done. Finished up the Omnivore's Dilemma.
Don't remember much of what happened today. Must have spent the day playing with the Bug and got this cool photo.
Watched Boondock Saints with Mattt tonight. Didn't do much else of note. Stupid camera messed up again.
A beautiful, post snow evening. Camera didn't mess up this time. Woot.
It snowed again tonight. Again, this camera thingy fails me. Curses.
It snowed tonight at the Nut. Curse this stupid .cr2 problem.
A bit of doodling I did today while wrapping up the website.
Another day spent working on my website. It's about finished. Not 100% but close enough. www.billharnerphotography.com
So I'm not sure if it's my camera, memory card, or software, but it keeps having errors with converting to DNG/JPG and I'm getting peeved, not to mention it's taking way longer than it should, which is why I'm not totally up to date with my photos. They're all sitting somewhere on my HD right now waiting to be processed.
A good day. Went over to Willi's and learned how to throw a tomahawk then I took him and Matt out to W.VA to go shooting. Popped Willi's handgun cherry and Matt tore it up with my baby kalashnikov.
Half empty? Half full? Half ruined photo? Stupid DNG converter messing up my photos again? Damn you, Adobe. I curse you for not allowing CS3 to support the G10.
This one speaks for itself. Also, Adobe's DNG converter sucks. If you're doing much of anything else on your compy while it's running, this crap happens often.
Got back to VA last night. Kimberly was working tonight so Matt came over and we watched some random movies and ate some random food. This is one of his concoctions. a pringle sandwich with summer sausage, two kinds of cheese, venison jerky and some kind of cracker in the middle. pure craziness.
Last morning in MA. Nice little bit of snowfall on the ground. Lookin' at my Parent's house.
Catamount. The view down Catapult, one of the steepest trails in the Northeast, according to Catamount. All in all, an enjoyable day of skiing with my big sister.
Went down to Mystic with the parental units. Lily is a sucker for aquariums and the one at Mystic is super friendly to the sub 4 foot tall crowd. At Mystic Aquarium they had a small tank set up with a couple of mermaid's purses with small holes cut into them so you could see the live embryos. Was pretty cool. We had a blast there, then we went over to Mystic Pizza for lunch so that Lily and Kimberly could gorge on tasty Pizza.
Laura and I patrolled all day at Otis Ridge. After nap time Mom and Kimberly brought the girls over to go skiing. It was Lily's first time on skis (she's 25 months old). She loved clomping around in the boots and she had fun on the skis.
Not a whole lot went down today. Some general hanging around the homestead and such. Lily was cranky. Dad, Kimberly and I drove down to Hartford to check out the sale at Cabella's. Then we stopped by an awesome Diner on the way home that had some amazing burgers piled high with fried onions (not to mention the bangin' onion rings that are battered right there).
St. Valentine's day... Also, the Special Olympics MA passion plunge date in Worcester. So, we went because my Mom was jumping into a hole cut in the ice. Also, as I found out the night before, I had been volunteered to be the official photographer for the day and the only camera I had with me was my g10.
The Drive up to MA for a little vacation. This was somewhere around Newburg, NY on I-84. My card did something funky and this is how the photo turned out.
It's long overdue but it is time to get caught up on my bloginating. I have been taking my photos, I just have not been posting them because I was out of town for a week, then busy working on my pimpin myself out website www.billharnerphotography.com
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