Ardenwood Faire from last year(!)
NorCal Pirate Festival from last month.

PEERS Pirate Ball
June Gaskell Ball

Stuff I forgot in the recent kidlet update ( Read more... )

We got a dog. We renamed her "Mocha". She's a sweetheart - obviously she's been a housedog, because she responded so well to commands, and has been pretty polite in the house from the moment we got her home. She mostly avoids Wiggles, though just a few minutes ago, Wiggles got a faceful (or forehead-full) of tail. Mocha's relationship with Pounce ( Read more... )

Photos from the recent PEERS ballIn San Francisco, driving through ( Read more... )

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A few hours without work or kids, and I got lots of photos done.

Dark Garden windows at Dickens Fair, part 1

Dark Garden windows at Dickens Fair, part 2

Last night's Gaskell Ball

I've just recently changed how I process photos. Here's the process up through about the end of November:

1. Download photos from camera to computer
2. Do color correction, sharpening, and cropping on all but the worst of the pictures (using CaptureOne v4 - I need to upgrade.)
3. Email 800px copies of the pictures to people in them whose email addresses I ( Read more... )

Wiggles is talking up a storm now. She's learning lots of new words - she now correctly identifies circles, triangles, stars, sheep, hats, chocolate, and cake, among other things. I was eating some chocolate cake tonight and she asked for some - it sounds like "chocat cake" when she says it. She has started to recite bits of the alphabet, though I ( Read more... )