stuffed squash... fall has arrived

stuffed acorn squash with brown rice (spiced with cinnamon and clove), cranberries, rasins, honey, and cashews. mmm...

i'm rooting for my habenero plant, but...

these are number 4, 5, and 6 of the season and i have at least 20 more dark green ones on the plant.

stuff i find

i love the random crap i come across on my cyclecommutes.

got it on the first try this morning

heh... we moved from 10th floor to 12th floor last week. this is the first morning on which i pushed the right button on the elevator.

moving labels

that heath guy really gets around... product marketing, cloud technology, boxes (literally, moving boxes)

wildlife on my cyclecommute

totally would have missed the bald eagle sitting on the swimming raft in lake mccarrons this morning if i'd been driving a car. totally would have had a better camera than the one on my phone, though. time to start packing the compact 10x zoom camera on my commutes.

today's home office

with a coworker, too!

new booooooots!

ugliest soccer boots ever == most awesome soccer boots ever

shadows to and from work

ruins by the river

Did some shooting near the mill ruins by the river, today. Here are a few samples, some are heavily edited.

broken window

visitor during dinner at sea salt eatery

shadows growing

today's commuter bike in motion and at rest

faint shadow on a misty morning

well, since i had the surly out, anyway

i figured i'd put its bottle opener to use!

look who i met on my way home

a spotted salamander was pulling a rango! it appears that, yes, he got to the other side.

the nicest thing about working from home

real live serviceable windows. a window seat at the office today would be hell.

sapcicle

we trimmed our pine tree today. it wept.

--rt

the pier at grand marais michigan

the pier at grand marais michigan is built to withstand the destructive forces of the great gitcheegumee (lake superior). we all know about its fury and power, if not first hand, at least from mr. lightfoot's lyrics. it can be pretty crazy.

well, the pier--actually a sea wall protecting the entry to the harbor--has some sections built out of interlocking steel sections that are filled with rock and cement.

 we wandered out on this structure last week and i found a bunch of interesting perspectives i wanted to capture. first, i was intrigued by the metal outer shells of the structure. their lego-like interlocking fingers were very cool, so they are the "interlocks." later, i found some rocks that still had the holes in them that were used to mine them from wherever they were quarried, and that set was dubbed the "rockholes."

the interlocks

the rockholes