At least someone can call this home, even if it's a spider. And I wonder about those holes in the soil in the pot... (thought about taking a picture of that too, but didn't) 

Yeah, fine, I don't know what this one's called either. 

'nother small cactus. Gotta find out what these are actually called. 

More of the same small cactus. 

Prickly pear. 

Documentary of Sharp Things

Welcome to Amy's Documentary of Sharp Things. Today is Part 1: my yard.


Small cactus, potted. 

Rest of the gratuitous depth of field experiment. f/2.8 

Gratuitous depth of field experiment. f/8 

See the ant? I can imagine the ants sitting there going, "What's this chick doing with the big piece of glass pointed at us?" 

Mmm, macro lens. I never seem to get tired of taking really big closeups of my herbs. 

Really gives you that falling feeling. 

We had over an hour to kill, so we rode up and down the escalators. Yeah, it takes some serious small-town people to actually do this. 

Italian food! The back door of Fio Rito. 

Macro-ee goodness. I love how you can see little fibers on the screen that I didn't notice til I was looking through the viewfinder. Not to mention individual color elements on the LCD. FYI, this is my 14.1 SXGA laptop screen taken at f/2.8, 60mm, ISO 100, 1/30 sec. 

Ah, sunset over military planes. Lots and lots of military planes. 

Tonight I went down the same route starting on Aviation Bikeway, but made it further... down past Wilmot & Golf Links (probably Escalante east of Kolb). I turned around when I saw the planes. Also, it was dark.

Dist: 21.18 mi
Time: 1:36:43
(Yeah, I'm slow... but I'm getting better :) that's 13.14 mph, where my previous averages were more like 12. Stopping to take pictures and wait for stop lights takes out some time, but I can't blame too much on that. I wish I'd noted my trip time before I turned around - I made much better time on the way back - at least when I looked at my spedometer it usually read around 18).

Guess I made it to the Air Force Base. 

Oooh, pictures

You may have noticed the great rash of pictures that just went up... I have just discovered Hello. Funny, I run so much open source and Google software on top of my OS that I sometimes forget whether I'm in Windows or Linux. Well, at least I'm using Windows and (gasp!) even liking it.

Sunset from the back yard. Shame the power lines were there... 

Gratuitous sunset shot from my front yard 

Another gratuitous sunset shot, this time including the palm trees 

Bike ride Saturday: Young moon and Venus again, just after turning back, somewhere near Golf Links and Swan. This might help: http://www.pagnet.org/bikemap/ 

Oddly enough, even after riding home in the wee hours every night all summer, I had never actually had to try my light in complete darkness. It worked well enough to get around, which is more than I had expected. Now I know that I can ride in the dark... as long as the batteries are charged :-)

Bike ride Saturday: Further south on Aviation Bikeway. 

Bike ride Saturday: Further south on Aviation Bikeway. 

Bike ride Saturday: North end of Aviation Bikeway, rest of those pink clouds. 

Bike ride Saturday: North end of Aviation Bikeway, right into the sunset. 

Bike ride Saturday: young moon and Venus, north end of Aviation Bikeway.