December 2009
7 posts
Link: That Hobby Looks Like a Lot of Work →
Interesting article about some of the people who’ve successfully created businesses on Etsy.com (a website for buying & selling homemade or crafted goods).
However, there’s a narrative/angle in the article that these self-made successes never imagined that they’d have to work as hard or as many hours as they do to maintain things. Working for yourself, working for a...
Tradition.
This is one of ways the holidays taste:
and finished:
For me the two required tastes for the holiday season are gingerbread cookies and Springerle (a German, anise flavored cookie), looking forward to these when we’re home for Christmas this year!
WatchTED: The Power of Storytelling
As always with the TED talks, well worth watching.
A Cold Walk
It was as cold as this looks:
Been trying to walk more to and from work lately even if it means dealing with the cold. And bundling up in a scarf, gloves and a warm coat have made for a fun mini-tradition of unbundling when you walk inside.
These shots were all from a new lens, a 24mm ƒ/2.8 prime lens, that I’m really excited about because its small and light. I find a lot...
Thanksgiving 2009
We got to spend Thanksgiving day and weekend in Zion National Park this year with Polly’s whole family. Somehow all the schedules aligned and we made it work. One van-load of folks from Boise, a flight into SLC, and a car from California plus us. The amount of vertical relief that makes up Zion Canyon is incredible, the walls aren’t as tall as say El Captain in Yosemite, but the...