Only two and a half weeks until New Year’s! YEE HAW! Here are another seven shots, with my favorite being today’s weekly (or should I say Christmas) Keeley. I hope your holiday season is going well, and we look forward to a busy time ahead—starting with my birthday dinner at Brian and Michelle’s tonight, Mason’s Christmas concert in Olympia on Tuesday, my birthday on Thursday, the kids coming over next Saturday, and Christmas soon after.
Come on, you kind of knew this was coming—Keeley’s Christmas photo. We just think it’s adorable. She has a small underbite that shows perfectly in this picture. She was a really good girl to sit still while I took the photo. You can tell by where she’s looking that Kathleen was behind me holding a treat.
I have many of these in my office. I call them protectors because they keep me safe from bad things that can happen while you’re in your office, like losing clients or having your computer crash. These two guys have been with me forever—at least 25 years. They’ve moved to every office I’ve had during that time. If you’re not my age, you might not recognize them, but the squirrel’s official name is Rocket J. Squirrel. His lifelong buddy is the infamous Bullwinkle Moose. Have they actually worked? Have they protected me from tech problems and business failures? Hell no. But they’re fun to have around. There are others, too, including Ted Lasso, Fernando Valenzuela, Ken Griffey Jr., Julio Rodriguez, and the Sheeeeit guy from The Wire.
This one is totally out of character for me, an abstract. I can’t remember the last time I shot something like this, but today, while walking several miles in our Trilogy gym (we have an indoor track—not very big, a mile is 21 laps), I noticed these interesting shadows on the ground each time I walked around. So I took this shot. Then, when I processed it, I thought it looked better in grayscale. Sure enough, I like it.
Today was glorious. The sun rose and shone all day long. Keeley and I went for a very long walk (for her), and it was beautiful, especially after the terrible rains and flooding we’ve been going through. The worst might be over, but we are expecting two more days of heavy rain in the coming days.
Well, the weather forecast said we would have five days of rain this week. Doesn’t look like it, does it? Actually, I went for a long walk today in the sun and light clouds. I love it when weather predictions get it wrong.
This photo (taken outside Trilogy’s clubhouse says it all about our weather today and expected for the rest of the week. Straight-out flags, wind gusting into the 30 mph. Temps in the low 50s or high 40s and buckets of rain. We are expected to have more than four inches of rain this week. We get constant warnings on our phones and watches about coming winds, rains, and flooding in the lowlands.
Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location. – Joe McNally
