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Personal Photo Project of the Week #110


Sorrow and Gladness - 2012
Sorrow and Gladness – 2012

My annual trip to the State Center Rose Garden was kind of bittersweet. I went earlier than normal because of how early flowers have been blooming this year. As it turns out, I probably went too early and it was definitely too windy to get as many great pictures as last year.

Another bittersweet aspect of this trip is that I normally make this trip with my Mom. However, this year I made this trip on the way to bring her home from the hospital. We’ll make this trip again together next year.

The rest of the Sorrow and Gladness – 2012 Series:


Sorrow and Gladness - 2012 Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012
Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012

Sorrow and Gladness - 2012


I was a little disappointed to find out the the State Center Rose Garden wasn’t on Foursquare, but I have since remedied that situation. You’re welcome America!

The Archives: Edition Sixty

The following images come from:

Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts

All these pictures were taken at a Majors Family Reunion, not a Bennett Family Reunion, but.. whatever.


The strangest thing has dawned on my while I was looking through these pictures. For the first time in my life, I am looking forward to the Majors Family Reunion this year. Another sign that I am getting old.

Next week’s folder will be:

Backup/My Pictures/People/Family/Bennetts/Kahlers/Brandon Kahler

Roundball Oracles Year 8

It is the time of the year known as March Madness. That, of course means it is also time for me to run my annual NCAA Tournament Pool.

It is open to all interested parties (I’ll take a few uninterested parties as well) regardless of their basketball knowledge. After all, this pool was won by a woman last year* and the 3 years before that is was won by a dude living in Taiwan. You couple that with the fact that somebody with my immense knowledge of the greatest sport ever invented has yet to bring the title home to Union Street means that there is a certain degree of luck involved, so you shouldn’t be too intimidated by my intimate knowledge of the pick and roll.

As always there is no entrance fee. The winner does get a trophy. The only thing one has to risk is pride.

Pride, it would be pointed out by C.S. Lewis is the greatest sin, so you are out of excuses for not getting in to the fray with the combatants from last year.

2011 Final Standings

1. Carrie Baier
2. Jesse Howard
3. Linda Toot
4. Dawn Krause
5. Jason Baier
6. Corey Faust
7. Your Humble Narrator
8. Robert Henning
9. Russell Kennerly
10. Andree Jauhari
11. Nate Buckingham
11. Tim Peterson
13. Lowell Davis
14. Nader Parsaei
15. Mark Wolfram
16. Shaun Kirsch
17. Frank Meiners

The pool of entrants atrophied last year slightly, so I hope to garner more participants this year so all you have to do to get in is email me at:

bennett@photography139.com

And I’ll email you instructions and in no time you’ll be on the road to having your name on the Plaque of Immortals:

Previous Champions

2011 – Carrie Baier
2010 – Mark Wolfram
2009 – Mark Wolfram
2008 – Mark Wolfram
2007 – Tim Peterson
2006 – William McAlpine
2005 – William McAlpine

*I hope that sounded at least half as sexist as I hoped it would, but already two members of the fairer sex have thrown their hat into the arena.

Lightbox

As most of you know, I’m an anti-Apple kind of person. It isn’t the products themselves I’m against, it is just that Apple people drive me up the wall. However, there is one instance where I actually do have a small amount of envy for Apple people. That is that they have Instagram and I don’t.

While Instagram is allegedly coming to Droid in the near future, I didn’t want to wait for it, so I’ve been experimenting with Lightbox the last week or so as my primary phone camera app.

Here are some of my Lightbox camera phone pictures:


All Lightbox pictures are posted on Twitter and eventually the occasional picture may be posted on Facebook.