Chocolate Photo

There is something a bit disturbing about this yellow M&M.

Malformed Yellow M&M

More of my M&M photos can be found on flickr.


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The Adventures of Murray the Invisible Guy

So that collaborative photo project I briefly mentioned a short while back? It's underway. It's mostly a way for a friend and me to play together despite living nowhere near each other. We'll be taking turns on a weekly basis posting photos of Murray, Just a Regular Invisible Guy who usually wears only a pair of red high-top sneakers. You can follow his adventures on flickr here and here, and on Facebook.

Murray's Red High-Tops

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Open Shaft

Seen at a Barnes & Noble. I don't think I'd want to sit there.

Two Chairs, No Waiting

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Rainbow Cookies

I took a few fun photos with the rainbow cookies I bought at William Greenberg Bakery. Then I ate them.

Rainbow Cookie Lounge

Cat Rescue

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year! May it be full of good things!

Choco Says Happy New Year!

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Not a Morning Person

I am so not a morning person, and now I have evidence to support that claim. Here's what were on my feet when I left home this morning. I didn't notice until I was on the subway, on my way to meet a friend.

Mismatched Sneakers

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Chocolate Mousse Ball

Wouldn't you love to have his job?

Chocolate Mousse Ball Miner

This is one of the chocolate mousse balls I got Friday at Varsano's. Very yummy

Feeling: content


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Make it Mars!

I'm not sure I ever mentioned it here, but I'm a Mars Lover. I've been a space buff since Alan Shepard's first historic flight for the US, sat enthralled during the moon landing in '69, and have thrilled to the adventures of the little rovers on Mars.

My love affair with Mars started when I started writing a novel (as yet unpublished) set on Mars and started reading up on the Red Planet. A friend got me topographical maps and a Mars globe! I've read a dozen novels set on Mars and some non-fiction, too, and read what I can online. So, it was a thrill to watch the landing last night -- at 1:30ish in the freaking a.m. EDT and then stayed up for the 2:15 a.m. press briefing that ended an hour or so later, something I never could've done if I hadn't retired. And if the internet hadn't been able to bring me live streaming.

I took some tribute photos. The first is from way too early this morning before I went to bed and the rest were taken just a short while ago. I hope you enjoy them!

One small step for duckie...

The Chicken Has Landed!

The TARDIS Comes in for a Landing

Forget Water! There's Chocolate on Mars!

Feeling: elated

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Go Team USA!

Doll Shoes

A little US Olympics team tribute pic. I don't watch the Olympics, haven't since I was a kid. Not sure why. Maybe I lost interest after the Munich 1972 attack on the Israeli team. But one of the flickr groups I'm in has a weekly challenge and this week it's for sports shoes and I got this idea for a few shots using doll shoes, so what the heck. Here's a reddish, white, and blue sneaker shot. The shoes fit dolls that are 16 inches tall (1/4 scale).

Feeling: bored because it's raining and nasty out and I'm cooped up indoors on this dreary summer day.


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Another Plastic 52 Photo

Still adjusting to being retired. Went from feeling like I'm on a vacation to feeling like I'm on a year's sabbatical. Been meeting friends for lunch, going out with a friend to take photos, cleaning....

Here's a photo of toys and chocolate, itty railroad figures and a Ghiradelli square.

Chocolate Island

Feeling: relaxed

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Happy Valentine's Day

Have an M&M?

After 10 days without shower doors, they were replaced on Friday with doors with safety glass, and I spent today cleaning and redoing the bathroom. To say the workman left a mess would be an understatement. There were bits of old plaster and new caulk all over. I'm glad that little adventure is over. Now I can get back to normal cleaning and reorganizing.

Feeling: accomplished

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What a Big Fish You Have

The Big One that Didn't Get Away

The 19th in my latest Plastic 52 series on flickr. The chocolate in this pic is a Pepperidge Farm chocolate graham Goldfish. I hadn't seen these so a friend sent me a small package (yeah, small; how appropriate for this pic) for the holidays. And they are yummy. And rather addictive. Not to mention adorable. Oh, too late. I just mentioned it. :)

Feeling: mellow


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Happy 2012

Feeling: hopeful

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Yin and Yang of Cookies

So, this retirement gig is pretty good. I could easily get used to it. ;)

I had said I'd post my chocolate and toy(s) photos here that I'm doing for a flickr group, and of course, I often forget. But.... here's the one I did this week. Is it a black and white cookie? Or is it a white and black?! You decide! The "chef" is Wage of UglyDoll fame.

Cookies!

Feeling: content

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Truly Amazing Teeny Tiny Linkage

The dollhouse and miniatures collector in me couldn't resist checking out these links: These mini cities are full of awesome. These tiny cities are pretty good, too. These mini books are nice. I've got at least one fully miniaturized book. They tend to be expensive, so usually, I settle for mini books with miniaturized covers but blank pages. And of course, dollhouses, including Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle in the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. One of these days, I'll visit Chicago and see it. Links found on Lists Galore.

And here are some flickr groups specializing in creative photography of tiny figures: Life in Miniature, Little People, Tiny People, and my own Itty Bitty set of pics.

Feeling: mellow

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Nothing Like an Afternoon Ballgame

I went with a friend to see the Mets take on the San Francisco Giants this afternoon. Except for the wind, it was a perfect day for a game. Even "Gavin" here agrees!



And the Mets won!

Feeling: content


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Oh the Irony

As someone on flickr pointed out, one would hope the broker for the property isn't the one that had to vacate the storefront.

Feeling: amused


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Ever Had One of Those Days?

Okay, nothing embarrassing. Just one of those days instantly identifiable as a Monday. And lots of rain, too. Best thing about the day is that it's over.

Feeling: tired


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A New Addiction

 

I read about Poladroid in Newsweek, of all places, and it's rather nifty. It's freeware (they ask for donations) that you can download to create Polaroid-like versions of your digital photos. The software is that camera in the upper left corner and you drag an image into it. It makes the sound of a Polaroid camera and then it spits out the image to develop. You can save it. There's a flickr group (the link's there on their site) to post your creations if you're a member. I can see hours of obsessive playing with this in my future.

Feeling: Sad my one-day weekend is over.

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They're Mammatus!

These Mammatus clouds on Friday night here in NYC were the talk of the town. They apparently come after thunderstorms, but I've never seen them here before and we sure get a lot of thunderstorms. The clouds are magnificent. It looked like an alien planet outside.



In other news, I've been feeling pretty good the last 2 weeks, almost human, so I'm cautiously optimistic that the corner has been turned on the route to health. I can't say the same about my bones, but at this point, I'm happy. Work is... well, work. 'Nuff said.

A number of celebrities died recently, and I hate blogging about that unless I was a big fan of the person, because I don't like the whole media circus, and that's certainly true about Michael Jackson's death. He had enormous talent, a sad life, and I'm sorry to hear he died. That's it.

Feeling: chipper

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