If I live to eleventy-one (like Bilbo), Jackie and I will have been married 78 years. #jimmycarter #rosalynncarter
Tag: Photography
2023-11-16 06:21
Just a couple of days after seeing the crescent moon at dawn, last night there was a crescent moon at sunset! (Obviously not a surprise to anyone familiar with the phases of the moon, but it made me happy.)
2023-11-15 18:38
Whiskey club: Cody Road Bourbon. Pre-pandemic, our local liquor store used to have tastings. (It probably does again, but we haven’t started going again yet.) At one tasting there was a rep from Cody Road, which turns out to be almost a local distillery: It’s in Le Claire, Iowa, just across the Mississippi. I don’t remember the precise details, but the rep mentioned that they try to use local corn and rye, grown close to the distillery.
The rye was actually even better than the bourbon (and I’m not usually a huge rye fan). We’ve got some of the rye in our liquor cabinet—I’ll have to have some again soon.
Today though I poured the bourbon on the rocks, although it’s also good neat.
2023-11-13 16:14
Whiskey club: The whiskey I drink most often is Evan Williams black label.
I particularly like it for whiskey and branch water. (Equal quantities of whiskey and tap water are how I prepare it.) Several of the fancier whiskeys that I have really suffer when overly diluted with water, but the Even Williams holds up very well.
2023-11-11 13:10
I did a poor job of training Ashley to look at me. Instead of looking to me for guidance, she’s usually looking around, mostly looking for things she shouldn’t be doing.
This morning, though, she was looking at me, so I seized the opportunity to get a picture of her that’s not just of the back of her head. #dogsofmastodon
2023-11-11 06:09
Ashley was pleased to walk about one-third of the way through Dohme Park. But once I got this image, she was ready to head home again.
The crescent moon from the previous picture is visible way over at the right.
2023-11-11 06:06
Crescent moon over Park View.
2023-11-07 17:27
Autumn tree backlit by setting sun.
2023-11-07 06:14
Ashley was ready to head on back, but I insisted that we walk as far as First Street, so I could take a picture of the dawn sky, such as it was.
2023-10-30 15:31
I noticed how sluggish Ashley got when the temperature rose above about 72℉, but I hadn’t really noticed that it was kind of a continuous function. Now that’s gotten quite cool (down near freezing overnight, 43℉ just at the moment), she is full to the brim with energy.