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My uncle’s old barn was kind enough to pause halfway through blowing down so Chris and I could run down there and shoot some pictures.

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Going through some old archives lately.

Central Michigan, August 2008

This is far from the best photo ever made of its type, but it’s not bad for being shot from a moving car…

Noah Strycker is a penguin researcher spending 3 months in Antarctica at a penguin colony. He has a blog which he’s updating every couple days while he’s there. It’s good reading for a lazy morning with a cup of coffee, and some interesting wildlife photos to boot. There aren’t that many posts, so I’d suggest starting at the beginning and working your way through. If nothing else, it’s simply amazing that someone can be in one of the most remote, hostile locations in the world, and yet still be able to update their blog.

Speaking of updating your blog, after today I’ll be largely out of range of decent internet access until after the new year. So have a merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

Shades Ferns #1

So, when I posted the last picture, I promised myself that I’d try to make a post a week, to try and resurrect this blog. We can see how well that turned out. I guess at this point maybe I’ll make it a New Year’s resolution.

At any rate, this photo is from Shades State Park, in western Indiana. The canyons and ravines there have an almost primeval feeling to them, with ferns and moss clinging to the rock walls, and there are some very nice hiking trails. Definitely worth the trip.

Wall of Skulls, Chichen Itza

If you don’t read the Astronomy Picture of the Day every day, you really ought to. Amazing pictures, and a quite educational to boot. Anyway, last Saturday’s picture (which I would have missed if I hadn’t been going back through the RSS feed) was one of the coolest I’ve seen on there in a long time, and definitely desktop background-worthy.

Sorry for the rather lengthy outage on this page. Here’s the story. As I posted before, I’d been getting an increasing volume of comment spam for a while, and it was getting completely out of hand. To the point where I was getting more emails in my inbox telling me there was new comment spam posted than I was getting normal email spam, or indeed legit emails. And disallowing new comments wasn’t even helping; there was apparently some other vector into the site than the comment box. So I had to do something.

So I took advantage of the opportunity to take the site down for a while, and upgrade to the latest version of WordPress, and do some reorganization behind the scenes while I was at it. Unfortunately it took a lot longer than I expected, since I got quite busy and then went on vacation, and I’m just now getting around to fixing it. Sorry to all three of my faithful readers.

Also, I apologize for breaking any permanent links, bookmarks, and RSS feeds you might have been using. The RSS feed can now be found here, and you can email me if there are previous posts or other stuff that you can’t find. Also if you find broken links let me know.

Also also, I know the new all-white minimalistic theme is something of a departure from the previous look, but it’s just a placeholder that I pulled off the web until I can put something new together. I liked the old one, but it was getting a bit dated and didn’t support the new features in WordPress 2.0. We’ll see if I manage to come up with a replacement in a reasonable timeframe, but I wouldn’t hold my breath…