Timeshots Revisited

November Surprise

2010-12-01T10:25:00.004-05:00

The other day, a couple of days before Thanksgiving , I was in the process of making a bunch of little braciole for part of them coming home for what we call a "big bowl" the night before before Thanksgiving.

This all started when the first one of the first bunch went off to college and came home for the first time back somewhere in the early seventies. Its been going on for a long time and has more or less matured and is now getting old.

I happened to go out back for a breath---it was warmish after what has been a cold fall--and I saw this little bud atop our sort of decrepit and unkempt ancient rose bush, you know the one. I grabbed my little camera and took this picture. I didn't do so well. I don't take many little pictures anymore and I guess I didn't touch all the right buttons, so I tried again and got this one. Maybe a little better I thought.

But then again...

1962 or 1963

2010-11-10T11:11:00.002-05:00

This is a snapshot of my brother Donald, my mother and me with my grandmother peeking through and my daughter flying over us all. I think this as in either 1962 or 1963. In any case, a favorite picture of my mother and a rare one of my brother Donald. Donald died yesterday November 9, 2010.

Last Sunday...

2009-09-12T09:27:00.003-05:00

...I finally agreed to go for a nice sail with Don aboard CHIMAERA. His son David was along too, so I didn't have to do anything except sit back and enjoy the day. No work for me, but this wasn't true for these lobster men.

By the way, I hadn't agreed on other days because I just was plain tired and/or lazy or just feeling old.

Tiny Orange Mushrooms

2009-08-19T12:08:00.003-05:00

These little, even tiny, but very bright orange mushrooms were growing a couple of weeks ago under a tree at the edge of my woods near a brook. They were sort of rubbery to the touch and feel.

So I took a picture of them. Here it is.

They are not roses.

2009 and More of the same

2009-06-14T18:37:00.003-05:00

OK...here are three pictures of this years rose. The vine, or tree, or bush, or whatever you call it produced a few sort of decrepit around the edges buds and a rose or two of the same ilk. Sort of like me, getting a little decepit around the edges.

This series is over.

Speaking of Roses....

2008-10-02T10:01:00.003-05:00

Here is my Fall 2008 version of the rose from the twiggy bush out back....

...and just for fun...

...I don't have anything to say, really.

It's Been a While.....

2008-09-12T09:12:00.005-05:00

...since I even thought about posting here, or bothering to take a picture. Yesterday I took some pictures with a toy digital camera, you know, the little ones that are attached to a key chain. Here are some of the pictures:

...and some others:

I like the one that I call Chiquita....well, like is too strong a word.

Bye for now,Me

signing off from here,

Another Year and Another and...

2008-06-18T09:24:00.003-05:00

At least the pale rose producing bush still does it's thing. Maybe there is hope!

And Speaking of Ruts...errrr, themes maybe?

2007-06-13T13:05:00.000-05:00

I have been taking little pictures of this orangy pinkish yellowy fleshy rose for ever it seems. Here is this one from yesterday, 2007.

And then there is this one, a 2005 version...

And these from other years:

I have a zillion more but I am bored and didn't she say "...a rose is a rose is a ro..."

Same Old Stuff...year after year after all...

2007-06-03T10:02:00.001-05:00

This years ....

And last years...OK, not last year but the year before that and that and...Get it?

Trying to Decide Everything...

2007-03-16T09:49:00.000-05:00

This morning, the middle of the morning actually, and I am questioning decisions and staring out my window where my egg sits. My egg is this palm tree. Denis gave it to me a few years ago and it sits, often neglected, on a bookcase in front of my window and it is my thing that I stare at when I just like to sit and stare. Here is (are) this mornings view(s).

First this.

And this.

And this too.

None of them is quite right today. Says it all for everything else today too.

Cheery Stuff on a Gray Day...

2007-02-27T13:21:00.000-05:00

Driving back from a short trip to the post office a while ago I came to this stop sign and was greeted by this cheering sight on what was a gray day which was not all due to the weather.

And as you can maybe see, it suddenly turned a little less gray. Someone was having some fun and while all five of the snowfolks were cool...
....Mom was the most...

...and actually put a small smile on my face.

Michael Anthony....

2007-02-24T11:44:00.000-05:00

...aka grandson number three. I still like these older looking pictures. Don't you do too?

And this is his dad from 43 years ago... the little guy on stage left staring at the camera.

This old picture I called "Faded Times" when I first put it up on the original Timeshots, but maybe not so faded after all.

Late Last Summer....

2007-02-15T10:14:00.000-05:00

I took this little picture late last summer...sometime in the middle of September when it was still nice and warm out on my back deck. I think it's worth a revisit there today when it's not so nice and warm.

Don't you?

An Unusual Looking Shadow....

2007-02-05T10:08:00.000-05:00

The other day it finally snowed a little here in Manchester Connecticut. And it also got very cold. I looked out on the deck and saw this odd shadow and light pattern. The direction of the sun is obvious. There is a window facing the direction of the deck about six feet to the right of the camera location which I guess was reflecting some of the bright sunlight back onto the deck creating this odd pattern of shadow and light for a few minutes.

So I took this snapshot.

Looking out at my woods this morning....

2007-01-28T11:38:00.000-05:00

...while I was having a cup of coffee, I saw the sun working it's way up . Not too much of a big deal or anything but something I see almost every morning out the back door looking into my woods.

Ordinary and routine...not a bad thing at all.

A New "needtoy" and ..., well, we'll see won't we.

2007-01-09T09:41:00.000-05:00

I have been suffering from lack of a "needtoy" for a while. No more. I got this camera so that I could take pictures in available light ( it's sensitivity is up to ISO 2000) and maybe even get to take a decent snapshot without messing with the big, obvious, and less than easy to use inside without flash other "needtoy" from last year. While I haven't taken any snapshots yet, I did take a few pictures to get a sense of how it works. The answer is pretty darn nice for a camera that is entry level priced, but is a neat, little, unobtrusive, black and white available light device. It's not a Leica. And it doesn't try to be. But it's fairly quick when the shutter button is pressed, quiet and does produce a pretty good and very usable picture with available light. Here is a picture of my version of "the egg*"(* an attempt at an obscure reference) which sits on the windowsill in my room.

I know it's probably not the best example, but it's one that I like, so there it is.

More later.

The Original Timeshots is Going Away...

2006-11-26T12:58:00.000-05:00

...and this time it really is going away. The folks over at userland.com finally have figured out that they need money to continue and I have decided not to pay them. So...as I also used to say, there you have it. It's done. It's over. It's cooked. The last picture I posted there is this one.

I took it a while back actually and used it as my final picture because I haven't taken any others since then. The camera has been sitting out there batteries charged and ready, but I have hardly picked it up. Maybe when the need to post something here forces it, I will pick it up and press the shutter switch.

So until that happens I will have this picture here to remind me that the old site is dead and this one needs to be updated from time to time.

Until then, the window reflection and the red rocking chair are both taking the winter off. The rocker is in the storage area and the reflection is probably watching television counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report.

A Sunday sail with Don...

2006-08-08T09:49:00.000-05:00

Sunday, and I went for a longish sail with Don aboard his cruising 36 footer CHIMAERA. Like this one. Not a bad day at all. Pretty nice wind most of the day, very favorable tides all day, and it was what it was supposed to be.

While we were sailing back to New London, I had a chance to gawk at other boats like I like to do.

I saw this cool looking catboat sailing a parallel course to us but in the opposite direction. And then there were the houses of the Fishers Island kazillionaires to gawk at too, but I am not inclined to do that.

That's more or less it. The wars went on, the RedSox lost, The Yankees won, but this geezer had a good day anyway. Everyone ought to have a friend with a nice sailboat.

Taking Care of Jenny's Plant...

2006-04-19T11:36:00.000-05:00

Well, I am not but Mrs is. The plant is a resurrection of same from last year. Here it is in it's Monday condition. Today is Wednesday and it doesn't seem to be still healthy, but again, not my problem. Besides Jenny is away and won't be back for many a day.

Meanwhile I have been fooling around and did some of these other pictures for Timeshots.

Which one to use? I decided that while none were what I wanted, I'd use one anyway.

Compromises as usual.

Let's See, where were we...

2006-03-17T09:58:00.000-05:00

...oh, I remember. I was musing about the new toy camera and saying that the camera I coveted was going to stay as just that. The camera I coveted. Well, as usual want turned to must have this so I do. And the toy which was really kind of fun and really my cup of tea is now on the shelf and I am taking lots of pictures with the "must have" and making mistake after mistake after mistake. Here is a typical one.................... and don't even ask. The new camera is not a turkey despite all evidence.

New Toy...well sort of anyway

2005-12-20T11:30:00.000-05:00

The other day, while looking for Christmas stuff online, I came across this little toy digital camera on a keychain. I was---actually still am---intrigued by it. I bought it, I think they charged my 12 dollars or so and it arrived yesterday. It came with software, and a more or less dead AAA battery. But all in all it works. Here is a copy of today's picture
which I took while I was putting gasoline in my car. I used the little toy editor to frame the picture. Cool! The result is exactly what I expected. I like toy cameras. Always have from way back when I bought little tiny "spy cameras" from the back of comic books to a lomo which I recently bought, used and then resold on eBay. All were cool, but this new one is wicked cool. Now I won't have to get the camera I have been coveting for a while since I have this new toy to keep me amused.

Timeshots is Not Going Away...after all is said ...

2005-11-15T11:17:00.000-05:00

...and done, I have decided to keep it around in cyberspace for a while anyway. So pictures like this one which, for some reason that I am not able to fathom, is by far the most searched and probably seen of the 'timeshots' that have been posted there.

This picture which I have called saturated spring and also springwoods, is very frequently searched by Google image searches of European and Korean origin. I have not figured out the connection. So connection fathomed or not, it and the dozens of others there will be there for Google to find.

The Original Timeshots is Going Away

2005-11-11T10:34:00.000-05:00

editthispage.com, which has been providing free hosting for my Timeshots site has informed me that they will no longer be providing free hosting after December 1st this year. This is not too surprising. So, here is the last picture that I posted there a few weeks ago.

It was just a routine picture of Don and me heading in to Shaws Cove where Don keeps his sailboat CHIMAERA. It was our last sail of the 2005 season.

To mark the coming end of the original Timeshots, here is the first picture that I published there back in the early days of this kind of thing.It's a fairly bad scan of an analog picture taken in Salmon Cove off of the Connecticut River back in 1991 when we used to cruise in my houseboat CHIMERA. Yes, Don's boat which he bought after I sold mine is named after it, more or less. But that's another and longer story.

So, goodbye to Timeshots. Maybe it will still be floating out in that unreal world of cyberspace which I have never fully understood, maybe not. Doesn't really matter though, does it.

Without Comment

2005-10-27T08:47:00.000-05:00

I never did publish this picture on the original Timeshots, although I should have. Today seems like a good day to publish it here. Bush dumped the hapless sycophant. I backed out of a sailing trip that I have been looking forward to for over two years. Well, I thought I was looking forward to it. Guess not. The press and some of us Bush despisers have been out of breath waiting for something to happen to the Rove character, and we still are. Waiting and out of breath. The Chicago White Sox have actually won the World Series, even though no-one even cares. Well, Marilyn does. It's nearly November. That is a fact.

I am anxious and waiting for more strange things. Maybe Bush will have another little private talk with Jesus and bomb Cuba. But if Castro is too scary, isn't there another little island nation like Granada somewhere that needs to be saved from itself. I can feel it in my bones. Something is on the way.

From out of the Past...

2005-10-16T12:07:00.000-05:00

This picture, one of my Timeshots that I consider classic was taken while on a fall trip to Cliff Island, Maine back in the sixties. Marilyn (she is the one smoking the cigarette and looking at me with an odd look) and I were invited by Dave and Jane to spend a weekend with them on Cliff Island in a house that belonged to Jane's family. I am not sure what they were thinking when I took this picture. Maybe they were not thinking about anything. Now, when I look at the picture I think about how the forty odd years have changed us all. And how we are all the same too. I wish I could remember a lot more about the trip. I do remember walking all around the outside of the Island with Dave one day. We did a total circumnavigation. I don't know what Marilyn and Jane did that day. Probably hung out made small talk a while and then retreated to their own places. I know that at the end of the trip, Marilyn and I agreed that we probably wouldn't go back, but that we did have an intriguing time. And what we used to call a good go-out.

There is so much more that I could say.

Another Old Picture From the Original Timeshots

2005-09-23T08:55:00.000-05:00

Here is another old picture originally posted on the original Timeshots---for a look at the original with calendar links and listings of all the pictures have a look here---

This picture, now that I remember, was never published on Timeshots. But it should have been since it is the first of a series taken over a near thirty five year period titled 'three of us...somewhere, doing something or other...' and all just as ordinary as this one. Here, three of the four of us were walking around somewhere looking at other peoples boats long before Don--that's the guy in the picture--and I had boats of our own. The others in the picture are Carol and Marilyn.

In the years since this we have gone to lots of places and done lots of stuff. (I don't have a boat anymore, but Don does.) And we have taken many 'Three of Us' pictures. And a few that actually include the four of us..

We are going on a short trip next week, We are going up to New Hampshire to revisit some places we visited about ten years or so ago. Just a short two day trip. We may actually get another 'three of us' picture that I might post here one of these days.

Something New

2005-09-22T10:21:00.000-05:00

I have given up on the Red Sox for this year. It's back to pre-2004 and as far as I am concerned that is good. Here is my tribute to baseball. But not to the coming Rita. My Rita is forever. As is baseball.

2005-09-22T08:50:00.000-05:00

One of the hundreds of photographs and snapshots that I originally posted on timeshots.editthispage.com . I have no real idea why I am putting it here, except that it reflects how I feel today.