We had some freezing fog the other day.

Hungry Chickadee

Willow in Fog

Frost on Oak Leaves, 2024-12-30.

Ulf, the coffee gnome, wishes you all a Happy New Year!

From the archive: 2015 Christmas Tree Ornaments. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Cougar, Oxbow Park, Olmsted County, Minnesota. This girl was actually purring as we walked by. We were told that she doesn’t do this very often. More likely to hiss, especially at teenage boys.

I might be crazy but I think I’m moving my personal programming projects from Ruby and Python back to Smalltalk in both its Pharo and Squeak derivatives. This could get interesting.

Bald eagle, Oxbow Park, Olmsted County, MN

Just added an album of photos from our trip to Lisbon in 2019 to my photos page.

You have my undivided attention.

I just ordered my Christmas present: Venus Optics Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO Lens

Every time I pick up a camera now it’s my APS-C mirrorless. Seriously thinking of selling all my full-frame gear. Too heavy for me to tote around.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a badger displaying such an attitude of nonchalance.

I was at our Oxbow County Park yesterday. It has a small zoo of animals native to Minnesota. It’s a perfect time of the year to see the furry ones.

📷 I’m finally consolidating photos and making them accessible from my photos page here on micro.blog. I might even get around to using the new photo album support that @manton has recently added at some point.

Editorial shenanigans aside, I still subscribe to the digital versions of the Washington Post, New York Times, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune, as well as my local paper, the mostly excellent Rochester Post-Bulletin and will continue to do so.

📚 Finished the “Demon Copperhead” audiobook by Barbara Kingsolver. Book and narration are both excellent. I’ll have to read “David Copperfield” in the future to compare.

📚 Next dead tree book is “Allow Me To Retort” by Elie Mystal. I like to mix up my fiction and non-fiction. This one is a collection of very opinionated essays. It might be a challenge.

📚 Finished “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich. It is set in Minnesota so I’m familiar with many of the places. Excellently written, but as with most dystopian fiction it leaves much unresolved at the end.

WORDPRESS TO ZOLA TO TINDERBOX.

I’ve removed all my WordPress hosted blogs. One I pointed here. One I just trashed. One I’m moving to a new technology. I tried Zola for it but it’s not quite doing it for me. Turns out I don’t want a blog, I want a highly linked hypertext since it’s a genealogy site for the branch of family back from my maternal grandparents. I’m using Tinderbox as a static site generator.

📚 About ready to start reading “The Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich. I have a couple of her other books that I haven’t started yet. This one is from the public library. I’m at the point where I donate books to the library when I’m done with them.

📚 Current audiobook: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. About 2/3 of the way through. There’s always a train wreck around the corner at this point.

Doing some cleanup and testing. Please ignore my noise for a bit. Thanks.

Firing up the micro.blog again. Pointing my root domain at it so I can trash the single page WordPress instance I had on the way to trashing all of my WordPress sites. Has anyone here on micro.blog done a WordPress import recently? How did it go? #microblog