My in-laws have an awesome back yard and against their above ground pool I found a mom and her baby spiders hanging out in their web. After finding an improv light source of an upside-down steel dog bowl for a mirror and a watering can as the mirror tripod, I had an impromptu photo shoot. Only four or five came out OK. I aspired to make them as good as Hans', but no luck. Where's my DSLR and macro lense?!
Archive for the ‘Photos’ Category
Baby Spider Pictures
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Broccoli, Tofu and Quinoa
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010The wife busted this dish out a few nights ago. Tasty times!
3 ingredients, 3 steps = really good hot cocoa
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Some folks think that you need to get those little packets of mix to make a good cup of cocoa. They're wrong! Here's how we do it at home:
Ingredients:
- 1 super heaping teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder (preferably, fair trade and organic)
- 1 teaspoon sugar (maybe two if you're using milk. we use sweetened soy milk so we cut it down to 1)
- 1 mug of milk
Steps:
- Measure ingredients into your mug
- Spoon in 4-5 teaspoons of hot milk into the mug and thoroughly stir into a slurry
- Pour in milk while stiring
Enjoy! (ostensibly the 4th step ;)
Bees, Flowers and Videots
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Out for a walk to lovely Ici on an equally lovely day. Good news! Flowers and bees are awesome. So is multi-shot on the digicam – love it. Bad news! Videots has closed! I dunno about the "scam artist" part in that Berkeleyside article though. I happily bought credits there knowing they might go under some day. If you're looking for a really knowledgeable shop in the east bay, check out the Video Room. Folks agree, they know their stuff.
The little sunflower than could
Thursday, March 4th, 2010The sweets is starting some seeds. We have tomatoes, sunflowers and hollyhock. One of the sunflower's has come up with his seed pod still on. Will he make it out alive?!?
Oakland & SF Photos, Coffee and Scotch Whiskey
Monday, March 1st, 2010Ok, this'll be a good ramble. In order of the photos below, first up is the PG&E embarcadero substation. Huge buildings that have no windows are not for humans. They seem to always be for some utility company. Weird and cool looking. Next up is a shot of a late I made at work. Microfoam is looking good, latte art, not so much. We'll get there, just you wait and see. Next up, the shocking truth about the price of a bottle of decent scotch. The first is Eddie's Liquors which has a bottle for $70. Then Trador Joe's has the same bottle for $37. Shocking! After than is the 411 30th building in oakland. Some what unassuming until you check out the details (art deco?) of the lobby. I love this old stuff.
Last night I did a ride from our house, through downtown oakland, through china town, past laney, all the way south down to the park street bridge, all the way around alameda, and the double back almost the same way you came. Along the way I went through the defunct airforce base. The next photo after 411 30th shots are the HUGE doors (no street view) on the base. I love 'em! On the way back I stumbled upon The Hotel Oakland. Woah! This building is 1 square block and looks like it's from New York city. It's on 13th off of Broadway, who knew?! Wikipedia suggests it's on the list of Alameda County Historical Landmarks and some random site has this history:
"A residence and health center for the elderly. The building housed the finest hotel in Oakland until it went out of business in the Great Depression; in 1943 it became an army hospital and by the 1960s a VA hospital. From 1963 to 1979 it was vacant, before being reborn into its current use."
Lastly, a sunset shot of the good ol tribune tower. Hi Modern Cafe!
Pizza and Dough From Scratch
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Note to self – don't make the water too hot or you'll kill the yeast.
Photos from around the Bay
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Thought these aren't the best photos, please enjoy shots of:
- A big steaming dumpster of hops outside 21A
- A really dark shot of a 1967 Ferrari 330 GTC
- Some cool clouds at MacArthur BART
- The Pac Bell building at 140 New Montgomery Street
- A little robot I've passed for weeks and just noticed
When the cat is away, the worms will play
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
One Foggy Morning In My Commute
Friday, January 8th, 2010And more good pics taken with the new phone.
