Column of light

I happened to be in the park up by the water tower at sunrise this morning, and I thought it was rather unusual.


It's also interesting that the photo shows yellow at the horizon when all I saw was shades of red.

Beautiful day for a walk

What a lovely morning! Bravo and I and these mallards were enjoying the day.

A higher standard

I was just browsing articles on Huffington Post when I found this one from Mark Nickolas. He took the answers Obama gave at his first press conference, and used Word's readability tool to compare them to the answers W gave at his first press conference. The results? W's answers were at a 7th grade reading level, and Obama's were at a 10th grade level.

Now, I'm not familiar with Word's "readability", but I'm not at all surprised at those statistics. Bush did a lot of things I didn't like, but what I found unforgiveable was his disdain for intellectualism. Even if I don't agree with them, I can respect someone who seeks the advice of experts, especially if that person listens to experts on both sides of a question. Someone who just listens to his cronies does not deserve any position of authority, much less the Presidency.

Photos

I bought myself a new camera today. After taking that photo with my cell phone a couple of days ago, I decided it was time I had a small camera that would easily go with me on walks. Then I took Bravo and went to Lake Harriet and the dog park to try it out. Here's downtown Minneapolis from the south side of the lake:


I follow a blog called Riviera Dogs, and I've thought of specializing in dog photos. But I can't seem to go up to people and request permission to photograph their dogs. I took a couple of dog photos at the lake, but they were from the back, and were just bad. At the dog park, I did slightly better, capturing the cute dog below. Looks like a fox, don't you think? The owners said it was part Golden.

But even with this photo - I got it in the background of another photo I was trying to take, so it isn't the best. And I neglected to get the dog's name. I'm going to try to work on this.

Sunrise

Taken with my cell phone on this morning's walk

Just another winter day...

here in the frozen north. It didn't get above 20, the heat was off in my office most of the day, and the agility class room wasn't warm either. Is it weird that even though I was cold all day, I still want ice cream now? Doesn't matter, though, because we're out.

Also, you know you've lived in Minnesota too long when you come home from work, see that it's 14, and expect it to feel warm. Well, at least warm-er.