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Entries from January 2007

CSS wimp

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Honestly I think the only people that care about how a blog looks are the authors. It’s really about the content, right? Even though my template looks like a bazillion other blogs, it is clean, easy to navigate and does the job… I was holding my breath when I upgraded my template and only had [...]

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Tags: blog

Grazing the long acre

January 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

“Grazing the long acre”, as I understand it, is a term used to decribe animals that are eating grass along the side of the road. Well, after these five sheep ambled down the road, they decided to come through our open gate and graze the garden two days in a row. Gabe took this picture [...]

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Tags: life · property

Spirit standing still?

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

One of my favorite quotes from a photographer is that of Minor White: “Spirit stands still for the photographer it has chosen.” I stopped my car on the way to work to try and capture this amazing light. (I was tempted to remove those power lines in Photoshop, but that would be cheating, right?”

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Tags: photos

Snow!

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s a pretty rare occurence here, so it was pretty cool to wake up to snow this morning. Like most of the weather, it was intense, brief and all but gone after a few hours.

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Tags: life · property

Shaking the tree

January 14th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ll admit it. Over the last two days I have been obsessed with tracing our family tree. Ancestry.com has updated their tools and provided some cool supports to creating a good tree. If you get lucky, you’ll tap into other trees and a lot of the work will be done for you. There is a [...]

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Tags: life