Just Because

I've been doing this -- in internet years -- for a really long time. In inimitable me style, I would normally have linked you right there to my blog's first entries in, like, early 2001. But I'm in the process of moving them off my main server to some cheap freebie storage, so the link wouldn't take you anywhere.

The point being, here, that sometimes I write even when I don't have a whole lot to say. I had a writing teacher lo' those many years ago who insisted that you write every day, regardless of whether or not you had something to say. Inevitably, this sage insisted, after you'd let this stuff sit on a shelf for a while, you'd come back to review it and find a kernal of something good.

Well, okay, but... um, whatever.

Today I'm loading you down with some recent photos that really have no bearing on anything, but of which I'm inordinately fond. I should point out at least one of them was an absolute accident. That damn bird was unplanned for.

I'm still, as you know, a rank amateur when it comes to knowing the difference between the effects of shutter speed and aperture settings (insofar as I know that both affect how much light is hitting the sensor), so I've been mucking about with both. Hence this photo, which I snapped of the fountain at Columbus Circle on the day after they turned it on for the first time this year. I swear, I actually meant to get that blurred effect with the arching water -- I just don't remember what I did to get it. Yay me.

Here's me being a voyeur, again. I can't for the life of me remember why I thought this guy was so fascinating, excpet maybe it was the first time I'd seen a man without a bulky winter coat on since last fall, and since, as you know, in the spring young mens' blood gets up, I was excited. I'm just saying.

I absolutely love this picture. It's just me and my crazy obsession with the light that streams through tree limbs (and leaves), but I think it's beautiful. It reminds me of that photo from my lil' vacation to Jaybird's place -- the one from the Duke Gardens. Suddenly that seems like forever ago. I need some serious doses of sunshine and warm weather, my friends.

I've been out walking around the city during lunch and after work the last few days, so I'll probably have more of these random shots to share soon.