I had oral surgery this morning, so I wrote off getting anything significant done today. I never saw “Lost,” so I spent most of the day starting from the beginning. Pretty fun, but I”m afraid to imagine how much surgery it would take for me to completely catch up.
No fancy photo today, I spent my photography time budget framing instead of shooting. This is one of the results – an 11″x14″ print of one of my Japanese Maple shots. I’m donating two prints to AACI for an auction fundraising event.
A detail from my Taylor guitar.
And Angel Food Cake is the prettiest.
A face off at our son’s high school lacrosse game. I love this moment. It’s the only time that the game is still – even the ref strikes and holds a pose – then: BAM, the action starts.
Hanging around in the backyard, waiting for the coals to burn down for cooking dinner. All the chairs were calling to me – the close one won.
A relic souvenir from the early days at PDI. This is from around 1982, when we delivered animation on 2″ video tape. The project was for Rede Globo, the huge Brazilian TV network.
It’s a wacky little instrument. Only three strings, tuned to G D G, so by strumming you get a root and a fifth. And it only has 9 frets, spaced to give you every note of a major scale, plus a flat seventh: G A B C D E F F# G.
Basically you can strum away and hit frets at random and it will always sound okay.
The tone sounds more like a cross between a banjo and a uke than a guitar.
It’s lots of fun, and you can give it to little kids to play, and they’ll be thrilled at how great they sound.
It was a pretty long day and I’m not really inspired for some serious photography, but I was inspired to torch up the grill.
From my son’s drum kit.
Hey Eric!