The PhotoShop wizard who was visiting from Up North last weekend gave me a quick walk through some features I didn’t know how to use. Crystal Ball sez: I see a deep time sink in your future.
BEFORE:
AFTER (with an artsy finish):
[Update: A more contrasty & saturated version per Don’s suggestion]
For some reason, our jet jockeys have decided to come RIGHT OVER the deck.
LOUD!
A tradition in Ukraine is that a guy brings a single flower to the girl when he meets her for their first date.
Imagine the story behind this scene I found one morning on a low wall in Kyiv, while we were walking up to the Saint Sophia cathedral from the little apartment we’d rented for a couple nights while we saw the sights.
A wonderful first date? A failure? A memorable evening? A first-and-last date? The start of something wonderful and lasting? A cigarette (or two) was obviously involved.
[19Sep2009]
But that was then. Five hours later finds the sun shining and the washing machine whirring. Friends expected around 6-ish for dinner and conversation.
The tidal bore, sailboats, Treasure Island, and the Berkeley campus in the background. A peaceful day.
[Click to biggify.]
T-Mobile had a delightful parachuting and jetting extravaganza today at lunch time to promote their new myTouch 3G phone.
More photos here.
I’d mentioned the mysterious behavior of our crows to Sara Zarr in response to her Facebook link to the NPR story on crows. (Read it. Interesting!)
Our crows flock to the roof top at Levi’s Plaza and perch on the railings for “meetings” in the afternoon. In small groups, they practice walking around like humans while the crows on the railings critique their technique and progress. After a certain period of time, the meeting is adjourned and they fly off in all directions, just as they’d arrived.
Spooky, I tell you! Who knows what sorts of mischief they’re plotting in the late afternoon when they think no one is watching.
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