July retrospective

My primary feeling looking at this is that I cannot believe it's August and that my summer is mostly over. July was good, because it meant getting out of sweltering New York and into nature. It also reflects the abundance of local foods, baseball, and bike rides—you know, summer stuff.

212/365: Bo and friends

When Super G was a kid, he drew a whole cartoon's worth of characters. Bo the Fish (the orange one) was the flagship member of the team, and well, he's cute, so I put him on a t-shirt tonight.

211/365: File Under: Things not commonly seen in New York City

Alternative title: "Anything for a free t-shirt"

210/365: A little bit of beauty

209/365: A silent moment

208/365: My boyfriend

It's OK. Super G knows. He's cool with it.

(This is right fielder Shawn Green. More Mets pictures are at Flickr.)

207/365: Religious and secular

206/365: Receiving some good news?

205/365: Coffee and death

The building on the left is Porto Rico Importing Co. The building on the right is Perazzo Funeral Home.

204/365: Sliced

It's tough when you don't leave the house. At least I made it to the grocery store.

On another note, if you look at the word "sliced" for long enough, it stops seeming like a word.

203/365: OMG! Ponies! (And Angels! And Jesus!)

I don't normally love the montage format, but one picture could not have done this house justice. I beg you to look at the original size in Flickr and scroll through it to see the detail. We were biking along in the Bronx when Super G began frantically flailing his arm, pointing at this house. Actually, he was sure it wasn't a house. He thought they probably sold lawn statues. But no, I went to investigate and determined that this is just someone's residence, in all of its glory.

Update: Super G just sent me this link from Forgotten NY, suggesting that this house is only supposed to look like this around Christmas. But I swear, I took the picture in July!

202/365: A long-awaited delivery for the Village and Soho

On our way to the subway, the doorman of this building stood watching a very important charge: the delivery of Harry Potter books to several addresses in the Village and Soho. I'm sure the UPS guy was very, very popular today.

This is about as close as I got to the Harry Potter craze, since I've never really gotten into the whole thing. Sure, I read the first 3 books and I saw the first movie, but I figure I can wait until the hysteria ends.

201/365: Along for the ride

I love how this gull, which is actually a mosaic on the wall, looks like it's sitting on the side of the subway car.

200/365: Cornucopia

Someone who was picking up her farmshare today came with this really cute basket. She proceeded to fill it in a methodical and aesthetically pleasing manner, and then set it down so she could talk to someone. I couldn't resist its organizational perfection. I had to take a picture.

199/365: Grrrrrrl power

198/365: You can never hold it down

197/365: These boots have served me well

You may notice that one of these boots is not like the other. A few years ago, Super G and I were camping with some friends and one night we built a big fire. I took my boots off to warm my feet, and without warning, a 2x4 that we'd been using for firewood fell over and landed on my boot. We put the fire out quickly, but not before the boot was singed. The fire damage hasn't really been a problem, but it seems like the boots are now just overall wearing out. I had some major toe issues on this last trip, so I think it might be time to bid them farewell.

196/365: Floating alone

195/365: Chapel in the fading light

If you know where this is, it would be great if you could just not mention that in the comments!

194/365: All hail the western tanager

If you ever think you have a good picture of a bird, don't look for it on Flickr. You'll just get depressed. That said, we were so excited to see a western tanager, since they're beautiful and they just don't exist on the east coast.

193/365: A canyon fit for a king

192/365: Grant Grove in the afternoon

191/365: Half Dome in the mist

190/365: Slip 'n slide

189/365: Wind power

188/365: Wee lady

I can't believe how disjointed today's pictures are. I feel like a saw a month's worth of events in one day, which is especially weird considering that I spent 10 or so hours in a conference hall.

187/365: A well-loved tree...

...just not necessarily by humans.

(PS: I'm not in the wilderness yet.)

186/365: Could be the opportunity of a lifetime

I don't know what internet access will be like next week in California, but if I can't upload, stay tuned for pictures from Yosemite and Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Parks!

185/365: All-American Tattoo

Happy 4th of July!

184/365: Canyon of light

183/365: Territory of Awakeness

Eternal struggle for life violently
protecting territory of awakeness power
Growing other must not be evolving...

182/365: Where one ends, the other begins

It took a lot of restraint not to choose one of the pictures of the juvenile mockingbirds, but the colors on this one are much better. Besides, I have a new appreciation for bees now that I know they're in danger. Today's photos were taken at Wave Hill, a botanical garden in the Bronx.

June retrospective

Now in reverse order! I had some trouble making the mosaic for some reason.

Well, now I'm back in New York, which you wouldn't think would be a challenge for photography, but sort of is. The problem is that I work more when I'm home (than when I was in, say Barcelona) so the end of the day arrives and I haven't yet taken a photo.

Otherwise, I see that in this month I basically discovered my love of water as a subject for photography, and I've been working on some long exposures, especially at night. There's still not too much wide-angle stuff, but it remains a long-term goal.