[image:127:l]Today was an amazing Fall day. The sun was firing up some great color and allowing us to take a long walk at Hudson Mills Metro Park. I was sure that the fall colors would be mediocre at best after a very dry summer. Mother Nature came through again. My brother took some nice fall shots last season, so I’m hoping this will inspire him to snap some more.
You can click on any of these pictures to view a larger version or visit my my photogallery when you have a chance!
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Not many folks know ’bout the legend of Pumpkin Head. Many think he was spawned from the likes of The Great Pumpkin, or the Headless Horseman. They’re all wrong. Dead wrong.

I was lucky enough one fall day to capture a picture of Pumpkin Head as he rode through Hudson Mills. It was a fall day. Crisp. Cool. A full moon was just begining to wane. In fact there was a slight chance of wane, but enough about the weather.
If you can stand to look into the eyes of Pumpkin Head, then I leave you with this rare photo. You have been warned. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a couple of pictures I’ve taken recently.

A fall sunset
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Mason and Uncle Derek
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Mason and Mom
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I like this FireFox extension I just downloaded. SuperDragAndGo allows me to simply drag and toss any hyperlink onto any part of an open Web page and that link will open in a new tab. Since I’ve been trying to get FireFox to open links in a new tab (instead of first creating a new tab), this little ditty is simple and does the trick. I can now click and drag a link from the current Web site, moving the mouse just inches, and when I let go – wha-la – that link opens up in a new tab for browsing.

Other bits:

Looks like the day and age has arrived where we will query gas prices on line to find the lowest per gallon rip-off at local stations.

You can start here:
GasBuddy.com

GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices. All web sites are operated by GasBuddy. GasBuddy has the most comprehensive listings of gas prices anywhere by far.

It’s member driven (no pun intended), so you can participate by registering and sending in your own local pump prices which help to expand their database. Prices are deleted after 36 hours, so you won’t be seeing last weeks price to screw things up.

What does Cereologist mean?

Cereologist (seer-ee-OL-uh-jist) noun

No fair Googling the answer. Please use the honor system (and for benefit of our friends from the U.K., please use the ‘honour’ system).

A Cereologist is…
1) …one who taste-tests breakfast cereals, for marketing analysis feedback.
2) …one who studies crop circles.
3) …one who studies the exoskeletal remains of extinct animals.
4) …one who studies the area of the cerebral cortex.

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Baby update:

Mighty Mo is 8 months this Thursday. This last month was a blur. We might as well have skipped it – except for his discovery of consonants, his plan to skip crawling and go right to standing up, his ability to find any electrical chord in any room with every available toy already on the floor and easily accessible, and… oh well, I guess we won’t skip it after all.

Today, a visit with his new pediatrician. I wish I was as brave as Monkey Boy, facing the 5 needles of immunization. Mz. D. was on hand, as I was at work and she later gave me the run-down. She likes our new doctor and especially the nurse practioner who skillfully staged the five (5) syringes on the table and then administered them in under 45 seconds to our shocked and crying son. I don’t know many adults that would take five pricks at the same time and not whine a bit afterward. For those of you without kids, the needle typically goes into the front upper thigh – in this case three on one leg and two on the other. The good news is one of those shots was a flu shot for this upcoming season.

He is just under 19lbs (18 and some change) and is 27 inches long. This puts him at the 50th percentile of babies his age. That’s about as normal as you can slice it. We can start to feed him some dairy in the form of cheese – cottage cheese to be exact. He will stay on his forumula and rice cereal/oat cereal, along with the usual assortment of Gerber baby foods mixed in.

When I arrived home he was groggy, fussy, tired and stressed from his medical check up. I normally don’t feel too sorry for him when he is fussy. I’m a dad who first does a mental check of all of the things that make babies out of sorts:

* Clean diaper – CHECK.
* Full belly – CHECK.
* Plenty of playtime – CHECK.
* Plenty of loving – CHECK.
* Nap time – CHECK.

When you KNOW your kid is still feeling chronic uncomfortableness outside of this checklist, you really start feeling bad for them. I’ve heard my mom tell stories of how she felt for us when we had an earache or the like. This is now coming into focus for me.

Our boy was a trooper today, all things considered. I guess I learned something from him. Better double check your whinin’ and make sure you’ve got ‘just cause’ to fuss a bit. In other words, unless you’ve been a human pin cushion today, better just buck up.

* Here is an intesting photo project depicting ‘deserted farms‘. Interesting subject matter done very well with black and white photography. I like the simpleness of the Website layout too. These pictures evoke a curiosity about the history of the remains…if walls could talk
Deserted Farms

* Bobby Neel Adams: Age Maps

Two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together. In this fusion a jump-of-time is established at the tear.

Although a bit disturbing at first, I found myself studying these shots at great length.

* Lastly, before I go to bed, I found a photographer that offers pictures from his website as free downloads to be used as P.C. desktop wallpapers. Have a look through these and maybe you will find something that will freshen up your work or home computer environment for the coming week(s).

Todd Adams Photography – Free Wallpaper

This is the one I chose tonight:

Instructions from his website on turning one of his photos into your desktop wallpaper…

…for the highest quality wallpaper, click on the thumbnails above, then right-click on the full size images and select ‘Set as Wallpaper’ from the pop up menu.