artful “autumn”
Written byAutumn is my favorite season and there are many amazing photos of its glorious reds, yellows and blues online.
But I have a gothic streak (albeit one that tends more to the romantic than the grotesque) so I am destined to project myself right into this image of a beautiful girl in a mysterious forest as the summer fades to fall.
“autumn” by photographer and photoshop expert [sry for the confusion].
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Written byThis week’s random selection from my favorited Flickr photos. There were many beautiful Ziegfield Girls, but something about this gal seems special.
Ziegfield Girls, originally uploaded by Suzee Que
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Addicted
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I’ve been Picnikizing my photos on Flickr and I can’t stop. I think I need an intervention.
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Pumpkin carving in Kevinsylvania
Written byKevin and I carved pumpkins this Sunday with my sister and her kids. Because we are such good role models.
“Pukey the Punkin” by Guess Who. Rest of the photos are here.
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Sunset over Salt Pond Beach on our last day in Kaua’i.
I’m spending my Saturday morning uploading the best trip photos to Flickr. I’m sure by the end I’ll be wondering why I ever came home. Oh yeah, my mortgage.
After reviewing the photos, I’ve decided one of the reasons I like Hawaii so much is the prevalence of bright colors in nature there. Red, purple, yellow and orange are everywhere, not just in planned gardens.
As opposed to the Pacific Northwest. PNW is beautiful, too, no doubt about it, but somewhat monochromatic, even in spring.
Did you know native PNW’ers have 50 words for “green”?
UPDATE: I’m done! View my Kaua’i photos here.
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From my Valentine.
I am loved.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I got a new job recently. While I stayed within the same company, I left a team I’d been with since 2003.
It was a bittersweet parting. The new gig is awesome - it’s full-time technical writing, which I’ve been trying to break into forever.
You can’t make the best of omelets without breaking at least one egg, and this seemed to take a dozen.
I had to leave a team in which I feel quite invested, having helped build it into what it is today. But more than that, it’s leaving the team members that is hard, and not just because several of them are my personal friends. They have a tough and often thankless job that is all too easy for outsiders to criticize or undervalue, and I’ve been their champion behind the scenes many, many times. As dorky as it is, it’s been hard to trust that they won’t be flayed alive without Mother Uppity there to protect them.
Anyway, on my last day, my old friends gave me a warm send-off that included a ginormous cake, a righteous Wonder Woman Christmas tree ornament, and this fab t-shirt.1
Besides singing praises to my writing skills, this shirt is also a wonderful motivator to become more physically fit.2 It’s a medium-sized baby-doll, which means that its actual intended wearer is a 16-year-old hottie. While I have no desire to be 16 again, I have nothing against striving for hottie status.
Photo by Lachlan.
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- ”Blurbalicious” refers to the portion of my job that included doing all of the technical writing for our team, including the “blurbs” — those annoying canned messages you get when you write to the customer service department of any large company. [↩]
- Please note that this observation is entirely my own and should in no way be attributed to the gift-givers. [↩]
The True Meaning of Christmas
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