New Year, new camera, new knits, new courses

Today’s photos are brought to you courtesy of my new camera, a Nikon D40X, which I hope gradually to master, eventually perhaps getting beyond the Automatic setting to take full advantage of its abilities. For…

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marking and its antidotes

I’m becoming convinced that protracted marking sessions effect bio-chemical changes which make a person appear very, very cranky. Imagine reading essays which begin “Historical aspects and events have never been so important as ever before”…

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All good things must come to a temporary hiatus?

Besides so often arriving home on Wednesday too tired to feel enthusiastic about shoe-blogging, I’m running out of shoes that deserve a post. Yes, there are more shoes in my wardrobe, but I’m not sure…

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Writing about the Superficial — that’s me!

When I began writing this blog, I was modelling it primarily on the many knitting blogs that first enticed me into this corner of the cyber-world, but I anticipated writing about my many other activities…

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ships, rain, and grace notes

This cruise ship headed past our place yesterday while the weather was still quite decent. I think the ship in the distance to the left is the freighter that noisily lowered its anchor yesterday evening…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.