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Take a hike

I need to start taking a better camera when I go on my little lunchtime nature hikes. Hey, people who have walked the Woodlawn Estates trails near Beaver Valley Road, is there a story behind this old stone house?

Neigh.

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Building

If you’ve an eye for pleasant vistas and fine architecture, it’s time you checked out BLDGBLOG. It’s full of interesting tidbits about urban planning and building design, and the occasional poignant observation: Malfunctioning fire alarms going off inside foreclosed homes have become a major distraction for fire departments in suburban Arizona, according to ABC15 News. […]

Against the grain

Now that digital photography is all the rage[1], I think it’s time to stage an intervention: folks, any printer you can afford is not going to make a nice photo.

I know HP and Epson and Canon have promised you that your printers will make quality prints, but they won’t. They will make “half-decent” prints […]

More Brushes

I can’t stop playing with this. (I painted over top of a photo I took, which is why it’s only half-sucky.)

Flick

After yesterday’s post about the Brushes iPhone app, I discovered that there is a Flickr group devoted to the art produced by this wondrous application. Holy cow:

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I paint about as well as Hitler

So after reading about how the June 1st New Yorker cover was drawn entirely on the iPhone, I knew I had to get in on that. The app for it is called Brushes, costs $4.99 (same cost as the magazine itself), and is superior to the other drawing programs I’ve tried for the simple reasons […]

Chopin

My homegirl Raw Rach hath alerted me to a really nice Garrison Keillor column from the weekend. I find him a little insufferable at times, but this is nice: And an intensely quiet blond girl, a math whiz, who, with no reluctance, sat down at the piano when I asked her if she played piano, […]

Boston drivers

Do you like poetry? I like poetry. Here’s a neat new one by Jill McDonough. Warning: it has some bad words. Many, in fact. Turn down your outrage meter so it doesn’t get blown out.

Cat yodelling

Enjoy.

Frosty

I’m not really a poetry guy; I’d much prefer listening to one set to music. (And if it hasn’t been set to music by anyone, it’s probably not very good.) Still, this poem, by Robert Frost, I find very appealing, particularly as Spring turns to May:

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll […]