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Monthly Archives April 2007

Sacred Harp Sing

This past Saturday, Barry and his wife Catherine came up to San Marcos for a visit with us and to attend a Sacred Harp sing together. The Sacred Harp is an old four-part songbook that uses shape notes, a system whereby the shape of the note head reflects its position in the song’s scale. It [...]

Posted 23 April 2007 § Music ‡ Comments (0)

Camera Redux

A few reflections on the new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7K, now that I’ve had nearly a week to fool with it:
I like the image quality, and the 6x zoom is a treat after being used to the 3x of our previous camera. The long shutter settings work well for light painting (though the longest [...]

Posted 22 April 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

I'll Rest When I'm Dead, Or Maybe Sometime After That

Lots going on: I took Abigail and Maggie down to the river Saturday morning for the San Marcos River Spring Cleanup. After breakfast tacos, we wandered the banks for about 2.5 hours gathering up debris of various descriptions. Maggie spotted a beautiful hawk, and Abby found an egg that had dropped from a tree but [...]

Posted 15 April 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

New Camera Coming

Some of my obsessive fans out there in Internetland may have noticed that the “Recent Photos” sidebar hasn’t been showing anything…well, recent. This has mostly been due to the perfect storm of hardware failures: both my trusty, dusty iMac, where iPhoto lived, and our long-suffering, often-dropped Canon A75 recently shuffled off this mortal coil.
Half of [...]

Posted 09 April 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)