4/29 quick SF trip ....

... to attend the USF History Department Luncheon. Our senior earned two prestigious awards, one for a killer paper on Thomas Jefferson, the other just for being great. Great ..... yeah, she sure is great. I don't know if I could be any more proud.

I stopped in the park on the way home to take some pictures. The sun was high so it made stuff look washed out. Someday I might become proficient enough with my instrument to compensate for it, but right now it's a convenient excuse.

The Conservatory of Flowers is always great, and always a worthy subject.

I checked out the lawn bowlers, as well. Those lawn bowlers, turns out, they are a rough bunch. There is a sign on the clubhouse that reads "No bocce ball" .... I think they mean it. I didn't know there was any difference between lawn bowling and bocce ball but apparently there is .... and woe is he who tries to bocce on the lawn. I could picture these people pelting some poor wayward bocce-ist with their lawn bowling balls!

diptych ...... gesundheit!

diptych, originally uploaded by henrypretz. 

If you click, take a look at the largest size ... that one looks the best to me.

OK, there is this message board about running. On this message board is a photography forum (don't ask .... ) The group there is the best, and we have been doing these weekly photo assignments. This week's assignment was to make an inheritance diptych

dip·tych

Pronunciation:
\ˈdip-(ˌ)tik\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Greek, from neuter plural of diptychos folded in two, from di- + ptychē fold
Date:
1622

1 : a 2-leaved hinged tablet folding together to protect writing on its waxed surfaces 2 : a picture or series of pictures (as an altarpiece) painted or carved on two hinged tablets 3 : a work made up of two matching parts

One picture of something you've inherited, next to another of something that you will pass on.
Sounds simple, right?

My diptych contains a picture of the burl clock that my grandpa made for me (the inheritance) over a picture of three bats and a ball. This is to represent the passion that I hold for the game and the hope that that sort of passion (for anything) can be handed down.

Rather lame on the concept, but I did like the way the pictures and the project turned out.

My running/photo website is at

http://chrunners.net/forum/index.php

The photo board is called The Fruit Stand

knee update +

Two and a half weeks post scope and all seems to be progressing normally. Sometimes I feel as if I hadn't had anything done .... then I'll twist or turn a certain way and I'm reminded of the reason I'm scheduled off work and everything else for 6-8 weeks.

Being off work is expensive. I bought a Nikon D40 digital SLR after just a week off. At this rate I should have a whole studio by the time I go back to work. The camera is fun, but I sure have a lot to learn about using it .... and I already find myself wishing for a longer range lens. Well, there's always next week (just kidding, honey)

Some samples