After arriving at 19:00, we had dinner and I was in bed by 20:45. With the darn timezone switch, I couldn’t sleep past about 4:30 the next morning. So I got up and played around with my brand new Canon EOS 40D camera. I took about 100 shots of my parents’ guest [...]

As I sit at my desk typing this, I’m facing east. This is why I’m often distracted by the sunset sirens calling me to photograph them from the window behind me. When I was living in England, my desk faced south, and the sun would come in from a window in front of [...]

On Saturday, the weather was gorgeous, so, after lunch, I went for a walk in the nearby hills. Marga wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to come, but I couldn’t resist the urge for some fresh air and sunshine. I didn’t have any particular destination in mind when I set out from home, [...]

It has been really windy around here lately. On Sunday night, we had to crank the volume on the television way up just to hear what was being said over the banging of the shutters. Plus, there’s some orifice on the roof of our building that Mother Nature sometimes plays like a flute [...]

My sister-in-law recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows Vista pre-installed. She couldn’t stand it. She said, “I can’t find anything anymore!” The first thing she did with her new computer was have her boyfriend come over and install Windows XP on it. I suspect that this scenario has [...]

I have this desk lamp that I really love. I bought it from IKEA. It’s the same lamp they have on their desks at CTU. It must be some really crappy craftsmanship, because this particular model of lamp lasts for about one year and then breaks. I know, because this is [...]

Yesterday, I noticed how lovely the little dotted lines of sunshine were on the wall of our upstairs hallway. So I took a photo. But then it occurred to me that these dots would move up and down on the wall over the course of the day, so I put the camera on [...]

One of the first thing most visitors to our humble home say is, “So you guys got something against lamp shades, or what?” Our house still has the original light bulbs hanging from wires popping out of holes in the ceiling that the original builder left. And all the previous owners have shared [...]

Today at noon, when I was putting on my shoes to go buy bread, I stuck my head out the window and found this fantastic panorama before me.

Yesterday, Marga and I were resting on the couch, having a post meal coffee, when she turned to look at the window and exclaimed, “¡Mira! ¡Hay un caracol!”