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Archive for August, 2009

Last night we were awakened by a really kick-ass line of thunderstorms

It was the kind of storm that you didn’t even have to open your eyes to observe. You could see the brilliance of the strokes right through your eyelids. Each stroke seemed to be in compe­tition with the one that preceded. Just when it seemed it was inevitable that the house and trees would be hit by lightning, it finally eased out of the scene. Quite a light show. Nothing like a good storm. This was good.

Norfolk Southern runs not too far from me here in Holland, PA and it also ran fairly close to where I used to live in New Jersey. I went out with Dan Troy and some rail fans and enjoyed seeing the big freight go by a couple times. Once near Manville and around Flemington the same day.

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Though expected to be off the Canadian maritimes by next Monday morning a Category 4 Hurricane is making a fuss in the Atlantic Ocean well East of the Netherlands Antilles. All models agree that it will bypass the East Coast yet I do see some proba­bil­ities suggesting that there might just be a tiny chance of effecting the area from Cape Hatteras northward to Long Island. Good sense dictates keeping an eye on it though. This image from NASA shows Hurricane Bill — August 18, 2009.

Have to figure out how to upload some of my new NextGEN Galleries…

I found some software yesterday and downloaded it for a spin. Nothing too fancy but actually quite pleasant to use. That’s right. I just created this theme for WP myself. It was very inter­esting going through all of the various framework. To make a long story short — I’m a designer and Art Director — not a php kind of guy.

So — locating this was a good thing for me. It was adver­tised on AlexKing​.org in a little banner in the article about the people at Crowd Favorite updating all of the Carrington themes. That was really amazing to read that. I have plenty of graphics — both illus­tration and photog­raphy as well as Graphic Design. Now I can get this stuff to work together instead of trying to get every­thing to fit the hard way.

“Now I can get this stuff to work together instead of trying to get every­thing to fit the hard way. I shot the moon with my Olympus on a tripod with a telephoto lens and a variety of different timings.”

This is all working a lot smoother than I’d imagined that it would’ve. That’s good. I had a techni­cally oriented family member once tell me that I’d never be able to edit any PHP code. Well that’s fine with me. I’d much rather just work on my pictures. Speaking of pictures — The sky tonight at maybe 9:00 or 9:30 PM was lit up contin­ually by lightning.  No really close crashes but some nice bass sub-woofer action — Wow. Sue was working on a project for work and I was afraid that perhaps the lights might blink out during the storm but instead all kept going fine. I’ll keep working on my theme.

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I set up a selection of images from our day in Tyler Park. I need to tweak the interface settings to make it easier to view. I’m working on that now. Getting some more components.

Sue and I spent the day in Tyler Park drawing in our sketch­books

just about the end of May. It was a great day and quite warm as I recall. I took a bunch of pictures that day — some of which I’d really like to go back and draw and paint from. I’m putting together a NextGen Gallery of those images and I think that they’ll work with the CoolIris viewer.