Craig's Through the Window

Better late than never.

Glass block windows are cool. They're like bricks you can see through.

Ryan's "Through the Window"

I occasionally peer through the windows of cars while walking down the sidewalk. Today I looked into one from New Mexico and found...



...MADDY!

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Cory's Through the Window

A quick look through the window at what's going on inside my house in the evening. The answer: nothing much.

But it looks like I need to wash the windows...

Mike's "Through the Window"

I did not get to spend much time at Schram park last week, and its not far from where I live so I went back and took this picture "Through the Window".
I did not even get inside the main building there by the hatchery last week, and was a little surprised that it was open on a Sunday, but I suppose most spend their time at the Aquarium up the road.

Tomorrow: "Through the Window"

Tomorrow + 7: "Bridge"

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Ryan's "Hilly"

Omaha isn't particularly hilly or particularly flat.




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Craig's Hilly

The photos I took for Hilly looked great in my viewfinder, and like crap on the screen. So I go back a couple of weeks.

Illinois isn't hilly, Scotland is. This is Oban, as seen from the ferry terminal. The thingy up on the hill is called McCaig's Tower. It's not much of a tower and isn't complete. But it does make for a stunning overlook.

Mike's "Hilly"

I tried to beat the heat this AM and went down to Schram state park and did some shooting.  Its one of those places that remind me not all of Nebraska is flat.  In fact, its pretty much the part that I-80 follows leaving visitors a biased view of our scenery.

This is a stairway leading up the hill where part of the fish hatchery is.  I wish I could have played longer but heat and my allergies chased me home.

Cory's Hilly

The area that I live in is very hilly (or mountainy), so I decided not to take the easy way out and just take a picture of the horizon from my back yard. Instead I took a picture of the ground from my back yard. It turns out a lot of ants live in the desert, and it is easy to find both little and GIANT ant hills in the area. This is just an example of a small one from the hilly area.

Next week: "Through the Window"

"Hilly" due tomorrow!

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Ryan's "Concrete"

Unoccupied concrete rarely stays pristine long...



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Mike's "Concrete"

Concrete all around us, so how could this be a hard topic?  Well its kinda ugly in general.  I went to look for art too, and found some in Memorial Park.  Actually the pieces I was was looking for have been removed from Memorial Park and moved across the street.  Hmm...  I love abstract art, but these just looked like sewage pipe or large extracted teeth.
This is when I decided to look for the "most" concrete I could find!

Craig's Concrete

The second definition of concrete in the dictionary is "not abstract". So, to give a concrete example of what concrete is not, I present this abstract art from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

Cory's Concrete

One afternoon last week, Maddy went running around on the concrete after it had rained. This was the evidence she left behind. Alas, a minute later it had evaporated into the dry air.

Next week: "Hilly"

Post your "Concrete" by tomorrow.

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Mike's "Tasteless"

This is going to be a stretch, because I'm woefully unprepared this week.  I took out a few minutes on Friday at lunch to shoot a little private park behind one of the businesses where I work.

It has a pond and waterfall that stretches across most of the property.  Water is usually tasteless.  Sometimes your well might bring up iron or other minerals that change this fact, but its usually pretty bland.

Water is also required on a weekend like this when you decide to do a poker run when its 91 degrees. 

Ryan's "Tasteless"

Need I say more?

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Cory's Tasteless

New Mexico people seem to be very devoted to putting up little roadside shrines, presumably to drivers that have been killed on stretches of roads. Some of them are more tasteful than others, and this one is actually one of the prettier ones. For example, I don't see any spray paint involved in its construction.

The actual tasteless part of this picture is that I am posting it here.

Next week: "Concrete"

"Tasteless" due in about 5 hours.

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Ryan's "Domestic" (with apologies to Craig)

In the USA, Schlitz beer is dirt cheap (domestic) swill. In Copenhagen, it's a probably regulated as toxic waste.

This was taken at the at a friend's house in Nebraska. The crabs were quite good. I did not sample the "beer."

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You know, I could have sworn they took Schlitz off the market after all those hillbillies went blind....

Mike's "Domestic"

Not unlike beer, cars come as domestic or import.
This car was definitely made in the USA.

Cory's Domestic

It is rather common for people to have fruit trees in their yards here in Los Alamos, and right now it is apricot season. We dried a bunch of them, and then Lis decided to be domestic and try making some chocolate-dipped ones. Here they are waiting to cool and be sampled.