February 2010
4 posts
Roasted Red Peppers
January 2010
13 posts
Excited.
Creativity vs. Stress
There’s an idea floating around the internet put forward by Chase Jarvis, Create, Share, Sustain (also explained in a video of a presentation, here), creativity can sustain you.
From his blog:
Create. Make something. A photograph, a video, a poem, a piece of software.
Share. Send your thing out into the world. Post it to your Facebook, your blog. Tweet it. (And still share it with your...
It was a nice long, three day weekend: Yurt trip out to the Unintas and a Ski Free After 3 day with Polly for her first ski day back post-op. The yurt was very, very nicely stocked, firewood, kindling, pots, pans, dishes, propane lantern+stove. No touring beyond the yurt to be had though, the snow pack was too shallow.
Meting snow takes a while…
Polly skis again!
Glad to see her skiing again!
Winter Hikes
These are almost a week late, but last Sunday, got to go on a winter hike with Polly. It was good to get out above the inversion and breath some clean air as well as move the legs around after the tour.
Polly enjoying the fresh air.
Not something you see every day.
Got to get out on a longer tour this Saturday and though for most of the day we were mostly up in the clouds, the sun did break through for about 10 minutes and it was an immediate moral boost! The snowpack is thin and the avy conditions very strange, but it was good to get out and above the bad air down in the city.
The full set of photos can be found on Flickr: Skiing 2010.
Nothing compares...
Still Inspiring.
The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture photoblog has some images from NASA’s recent Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Since high school I’ve felt that its unfortunate that my generation doesn’t have any well defined, well funded national goals like the moon program in its hey-day. 30 years later its still inspiring to me, despite that the collective will to accomplish...
“Being covetous of what you are not is corrosive. Enjoy the slow blossoming of...”
– from Stay Slow via http://www.theshinysea.ca/?p=567
(not related to the video below)
