Wrap Rage

Usually I can go quite a while before getting upset enough to rant and rave. Today’s target, and one that truly deserves a double barrel full of rant, is packaging. What is up with companies and packaging? Don’t they want me, the consumer, to purchase their products? If so why do they package items in [...]

The Appalachian Trail – In Pictures (Trails)

I thought it would be neat to share some of the many views I was fortunate enough to experience on my Appalachian Trail hike. So I’ve been going through the photos and thought I’d put together a couple of themes. The first theme is “Trails” because that is what I saw the most of…trails. Trails

Weekly Photo Challenge (Self Portrait)

The Daily Post is hosting a weekly photo challenge. I think this is a fabulous idea and have been enjoying the other posts from bloggers around the world – especially their unique interpretations on these challenges. This is my first week and the challenge is to take a self-portrait. Here’s my entry: View from below I took [...]

Waiting for the Worms

I am a human servant to four cats. Two Maine-Coon mixes, a black fuzzy cat, and a crotchety old tabby cat. The tabby’s name is Fats (actually she has a secret cat name that we humans aren’t allowed to know) and she is roughly between 18 and 21 years old. When she was adopted from the [...]

Works

So I’ve been doing some reading about digital photography and have been playing around with my little camera. There are some cool effects you can do in software designed for photographs. I’m finding myself partial to black & white photography. For some reason, “old” pictures speak to me moreso than full-blown colour. Here are a [...]

Goodbye Cruel World

This commercial is disturbing. While I can see where Johnson & Johnson are going with this ad, the message of the commercial comes out wrong. I totally get the “caring” aspect of the advertisement and I personally feel hospice nurses and volunteers are heroes. Heroes. However, in addition to showing how much the nurse cares [...]

New Machine

I live with artists. Two of ‘em. If you have ever lived with or known an artist you would probably agree with me that they can see art where “normal” people like myself, can’t. Take this Picasso piece, for instance: This looks like a kindergarten class had fun with crayons, at least to me. Frankly, [...]

Keep Talking

When I originally set up this blog, I intended it to be a place to rant, rave, and otherwise voice non-politically correct opinions on matters that simply piss me off. However I’m feeling a bit trapped in the meme that I, myself, created. Some, if not most, of my thoughts aren’t really rants at all [...]