Posted in As Pictured Below, Family, tagged 1970s, As Pictured Below, brother, childhood, childhood fears, fair, fear of goats, goats, photo scanning, postaday2011, Scancafe, snakes, Spider-Man, Three Billy Goats Gruff on April 6, 2011| 2 Comments »
Why is Spider-Man holding a snake, you might ask?
Because the 1970s made NO SENSE, I would reply. Of all the things that we might do at the fair, my brother and I chose to sit on a bench with a guy dressed as Spider-Man holding a snake.
Also note that while I had just overcome a crippling fear of goats that came about after a tragic misreading of Three Billy Goats Gruff, I apparently had no fear of snakes AT ALL.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged magnetic sand table, magnets, postaday2011, Zen garden on March 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
My niece and I played with this magnetic sand table as we were waiting for my brother to emerge from knee surgery, and all I could think was “magnetic Zen garden.” Somebody get on that.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged Earth Fare, organic, postaday2011, truffles on February 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
So far, I’ve snagged three free boxes of organic truffles from Earth Fare via the store’s free-stuff-with-a-$5-purchase deals. They’re going to be worth every penny when I actually have to buy them, however, given their rich, layered flavor and creamy texture.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Family, Photographs, tagged business trip, home, husband, postaday2011, toothbrush on February 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The husband was out of town on a business trip earlier this week, and I didn’t realize how desolate the house was without him until I spotted my toothbrush occupying the bathroom counter, all by itself.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged books, childhood, Crosspatch, iPhone, photograph, postaday2011 on February 7, 2011| 1 Comment »
As I recently outlined, this little guy is the reason that Lion’s Head Garbage Can can’t be named Crosspatch, even though I suspect that both represent the same children’s book character.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Eats, Huntsville, tagged alabama, fried foods, fried shrimp, gumbo, Huntsville, king cake, Po Boy Factory, poboys, postaday2011, shrimp on January 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
You don’t realize how much you miss a good fried shrimp poboy until you only get to eat one or two a year. And, apparently, you don’t realize that fried foods provoke headaches until you eat fried foods only once or twice a year.
Anyway, I had a superb shrimp poboy and cup of gumbo at Huntsville’s Po Boy Factory with MrsDragon and company in celebration of The Dining Dragon’s 6-month anniversary. I had been meaning to eat at the Po Boy Factory for the last couple of years, but somehow never made it there except to buy a king cake.
This will not be my last meal there.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Photographs, tagged cats, Gladys Kravitz, iPhone, neighbors, photography, postaday2011 on January 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The construction guys next door were making plenty of noise this week, and Yang’s inquiring mind wanted to know what was going on. Note that in his quest to see down into the yard, he has pressed his head against the glass so hard that his ears are flattened.
I live with the reincarnation of Gladys Kravitz.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged cold weather, ice, photograph, snow, TiltShift, TiltShift Generator, TiltShiftGen, tree on January 14, 2011| 2 Comments »
Ran this image through the TiltShift Generator app and played around a little with the blur and color saturation settings. Cool results, but I would give it up if all this snow and ice would hurry up and disappear.
Posted in As Pictured Below, tagged alabama, Huntsville, icicles, photograph, postaday2011, snow, window, winter on January 13, 2011| 2 Comments »
In the end, I had no choice but to open the window, pop out the screen and lean outside to take this photograph, 25 degrees or not.
Posted in As Pictured Below, Christmas, Home, Huntsville, Photographs, tagged accessories, animal rescue, cats, Christmas, Christmas tree, collection, decorating, fireplace, golden, Hipstamatic, holidays, home, Huntsville, iPhone, mantel, New Leash on Life, New Leash on Life Marketplace, photograph, sparkly on December 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I have a ramshackle collection of holiday decorating accessories — when you don’t put up a tree due to extraordinarily inquisitive cats, you make do with whatever fits on the fireplace mantel. You also don’t buy many new items, since that mantel’s not getting any bigger.
I couldn’t let this golden burst of sparkle sit on the shelf, however, when I found it at the New Leash on Life Marketplace today. Only 25 cents, too, since all Christmas items were half off.
I’m not entirely sure it’s going back in the Christmas box after the holidays are over.
Entirely Adequate 