Second Mountain

August 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Over the years we’ve explored the east­ern part of South Moun­tain Reser­va­tion pretty thor­oughly, but I’ve never gone into the nar­row strip west of Brook­side Drive. This is east­ern slope of “Sec­ond Moun­tain,” a much more wild and for­bid­ding place than the more pop­u­lar “First Moun­tain.” No glam­orous views of Man­hat­tan, no rivers or streams. Just a steeply wooded hill­side with the rem­nants of a live­lier time.

The Crag lookout

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Hemlock Falls

August 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Hemlock Falls
Claire sug­gested it would be nice to shoot it and try to get that “silky” effect. So I went up one after­noon with my tri­pod and a cou­ple of fil­ters, and here’s the result.

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Dylanesque

August 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Music |

Old friend Anthony Car­touche, wise in all mat­ters rock ‘n’ roll, rec­om­mended this com­pi­la­tion of Dylan cov­ers by Bryan Ferry. I was at the local books-and-music mega­s­tore this evening when I heard it play­ing and drifted over to pur­chase my copy. I want to say, “show me a CD with songs like “If Not For You,” […]

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Google Search On Your Cell Phone

August 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Tech Stuff |

46645 is the most use­ful num­ber I have in my cell phone address book. It lets me do a spe­cial­ized Google search by text mes­sage for all man­ner of things. I’ve found movie times in San Fran­cisco, thrift shops in Man­hat­tan, and tonight it was per­fect for a dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion. The spouse had locked her […]

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An Interesting Place I’ve Never Been Before

August 17th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

We were dri­ving up May­field Avenue in Cleve­land last week, and I remem­bered that the James A. Garfield memo­r­ial was in Lake­view Ceme­tery — just a left turn away. I’ve seen pic­tures of it, but for some rea­son I’d never been there before. Con­sid­er­ing its his­tor­i­cal inter­est and gen­eral archi­tec­tural impres­sive­ness (it is the most […]

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Downtown

August 15th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Con­tin­u­ing my epic blog-a-logue of our vaca­tion to Ohio, on Fri­day we headed up to down­town to walk around and see the sights.
skatepark fence

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Disillusionment

August 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Entertainment |

Vis­it­ing The Lit over the week­end, Andy told me that their trip to China was a hoax. Next they’ll be telling me this isn’t a real pic­ture of Linda and her friends play­ing cards.

Poker on Mars

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Macro Photos

August 14th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

We recently got our first dig­i­tal SLR, the Nikon D40. It’s a sweet piece of hard­ware, and Claire has taken to using the 55–200 zoom to shoot extreme close­ups of all man­ner of things. These are not “macro pho­tos” in the pure mean­ing of the word (the object being shot is the same size as […]

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Whipp’s Ledges

August 14th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

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Butler, PA

August 14th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Dur­ing my trip out to Ohio last week I took the kids on an extended side-trip to show them (and me) where we’re from. This is the street where my grand­fa­ther was born and lived, accord­ing to the 1900 cen­sus records.
Victorian

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Welcome to Pennsylvania

August 14th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Lane Closed Sign

We Hope You Don’t Need To Be Any­where Impor­tant Today

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Greetings From

August 8th, 2007 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Cleve­land, Ohio. Our first morn­ing here greeted us with over three inches of rain in about two hours. My par­ents’ base­ment had water in it for the first time in 20 years. There was a LOT of flood­ing out here, and the news was full of sto­ries about peo­ple res­cued from their cars in sev­eral feet […]

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