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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Blue Heron of Lock 2

I’ve posted photos of this particular heron before, but this time it stood at just the right angle below the towpath between 29th St and 30th St NW, as close as I’ve gotten to it, and it didn’t mind when I sat on the ledge with my camera, snapping away. Lovely creature.

Mobile Catchup

Owing to intermittent Flickr mail2blog problems, mobile content has not been getting properly posted, so here’s a quick catch-up on cellphone photos taken on the go in recent days:

(Top left) A black squirrel in Foggy Bottom.
(Top right) New Le Pain Quotidien coming to Georgetown.
(Middle left) Cloudy gray sky over Pennsylvania [...]

Harpers Ferry Honeymoon

Two months since our wedding, Amy and I still had not gone on a honeymoon for lack of time and money; so we decided to go on a quick weekend getaway to Harpers Ferry, WV, that famous little historical town at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. To stay relatively cheap and [...]

Caturday!

(Hiding from the Vacuum uploaded by amy kow.)
Today’s Pandora photo comes to you courtesy Amy’s shiny new Flickr photostream. These are Pandora’s tail and paws as she flees under the couch from the noise of a vacuum cleaner. (She does likewise during thunderstorms.)

Switched to uStream

You may have noticed a change on the webcam page: the live cam now runs on uStream.tv rather than Stickam.
See my Metafilter post about Stickam for details on the whole pornography controversy. But even outside of the whole “AVS-and-porn” brouhaha, I was more swayed by the fact that my Stickam password has been hacked [...]

Caturday!

Sorry it’s taking me so long. Lots happening, and only halfway through writing my travel log from last weekend. To amuse you while I’m busy, here’s a pair of cat photos:

(This entry backdated to appear as a Saturday post.)

Harpers Ferry Preview

We’re back from Harpers Ferry. It’ll take me a bit longer to write about our honeymoon and upload and caption and tag the rest of the photos, so enjoy these sneak peeks for now:

Back soon with more photos and a detailed travel log.

HarpersFerry

View of Harpers Ferry from Overlook Cliffs on the Maryland Heights Trail. It’s nice up here.
(HarpersFerry uploaded by brownpau.)

PntRocks.jpg

Point of Rocks. Upon seeing this MARC rail stop, my first thought was, “What’s the point of rocks?”
(PntRocks.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)

Train2WV.jpg

On a MARC train (Brunswick Line) to West Virginia for a belated weekend honeymoon in historic Harpers Ferry.
(Train2WV.jpg uploaded by brownpau.)