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I have sorted through several envelopes of old photos, deciding what to keep. I stopped when the decisions started to seem difficult, and my hand started to hurt from flipping through dozens of prints. That was somewhere between eight and a dozen envelopes of prints, and this is just culling, not labeling, scanning, or putting in an album or picture frame.

I'm keeping some photos of people I know, and a bunch of travel photos, including from Hong Kong, Britain, and a trip to Multnomah Falls (Oregon) with my friend Alan. The travel photos include some pictures of me taken in Swansea and Cardiff.

I have many more envelopes of photos, which I hope to look through at some point, when I feel like doing more of this.

This is moving-related because one of the boxes we unpacked contained photos.

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*I just filled out and mailed a change-of-address form for the post office.

*We carried a broken bookcase to the curb this afternoon, for pickup tomorrow. I'd called to arrange the pickup last week, and discovered that while our actual collection was delayed by the Memorial Day holiday, that didn't change the deadline for calling to ask for that pickup.

*I tried to drop some clothes in a town clothing donation/recycling bin. "Tried," because when I got to the location, I discovered that the donation box had been removed sometime last winter. (I have never used this box, but I found the location on the town website a few days ago. It's still listed.) So I carried a parka and a bag of other clothes through the supermarket produce section, and back home on the bus.

*In looking through a pile of papers that had been in my desk for years, I found the photos of me and Velma that I thought I had lost. I carefully labeled the envelope before taping it closed again. (I want to scan some of the prints; I am not assuming I will get to that before we move.) I am recycling most of the other paper in that stack, which included some job evaluations from the 1990s, for a job I was laid off from in 2001.

I did move some things from that shelf to a different bit of my desk, mostly so I won't try to examine them three more times before the movers come to pack everything next Friday.

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Thanks to

miss_s_b linking to a post about how to create good alt tags for images, I just went back and looked at images on my old posts. It turns out that I had omitted alt tags altogether on a lot of image posts. I am working my way back in time, adding alt tags where I had none, and fixing the occasional useless "alt tag" supplied by Flickr or LJ that is just the image title or, worse, dimensions. (The Flickr photos have titles like "climbing out" or "shining," and what's wanted for an alt tag is something like "four turtles sitting on a log, and one climbing out of the water onto the log.")

I got back as far as mid-2013 on the "show earlier posts" feature of Dreamwidth, and then started clicking on likely tags, including "photo," "birds," and "park." That was fun, looking at photos I took years ago, and being reminded of things I'd forgotten. Along with fixes to old journal entries, I added two entries from 2005 to my birding life list. (I'd posted to LJ about them, and forgotten to write them down in the book when I got back to New York.)

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I have uploaded a few pictures—two of Kaja, one of Kia—to Flickr for anyone who wants to see what our new cats look like. My username there is rosvicl, and the photos should be publicly visible.

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Inspired by

padparadscha's post about seeing one, I have uploaded three more photos of the fire rainbow (aka circumhorizontal arc) that I saw out the bus window last Saturday afternoon. My Flickr (not twitter, damn it) username is rosvicl. I did very minimal photo processing, mostly cropping the images a bit.

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I just uploaded some photos to Flickr from my trip to the Jardin Botanique in mid-April: it's a mixture of butterflies (indoors) and flowers (both greenhouse and some in the Alpine Garden).

A sample:

Crossposts: https://redbird.livejournal.com/1345157.html

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Here are some violets growing in Inwood Hill Park:

( more flowers on my Flickr page )

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Carl Zimmer has been collecting science-related tattoos for a few years. I sent him a picture of my coelacanth tattoo for his Web page, and then for his upcoming book. I don't much like the subtitle—I don't think I'm science-obsessed, and certainly not obsessed with coelacanths—but I do think it's a cool project. (And I should probably see if I can make a usable icon out of this photo.)

ETA: I just got a follow-up email, asking for artist information so Carl can put credits in the book. This tattoo was done by Craig Cooley, who is now in Lake Charles, LA.

Crossposts: https://redbird.livejournal.com/1283370.html

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I have a "photos" filter on LJ, which I've been using for nudes of me. (I'm the model, not the photographer, on all of these; the photographer has put them on their own journal, also filtered, and is fine with me reposting them similarly.) However, Dreamwidth doesn't currently have a scrapbook feature, and there are reasons I'm not going to post them unlocked, or even unfiltered, on LJ.

So, if you want to be in that filter (if we're friends, I trust you not to repost these inappropriately) and have an LJ account, I'll add you to that filter. (If you want to see them and don't have an LJ account, comment and I'll see what I can work out.) And then I'll post here once they're up, for anyone who has an LJ account they're no longer looking at regularly.

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I just uploaded some photos to Flickr. It's a mix of "hey, pretty," ncluding this color-manipulated picture of a grass plant,

and documenting my part of Inwood Hill Park. The best of the lot, I think, is both: I got a good photo of a night heron on a rock in the afternoon sunlight:

Clicking through will get you to larger versions of both, and the rest of my photostream, including trees and fungus.

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There's a fine black locust sapling in the park across the street. It's regrowing from surviving roots, after a big old tree came down in a storm last year, and the parks department removed the visible stump.

woman standing next to a locust sapling, with her hand at the top

This photo is from late July, on a rare sunny day. Three weeks earlier, this tree was about up to my waist. Right now, on rainy days, it's not quite as tall as I am.

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This photo is from late July, on a rare sunny day. Three weeks earlier, this tree was about up to my waist. Right now, on rainy days, it's not quite as tall as I am.

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cattitude and I wandered outside this morning, and stepped into the park to see if the mallards were eating mulberries. In looking for that, we saw movement in the water. We stood there watching it, speculating on what it might be: a large fish? Muskrat? Turtle? Then a woman and boy came along, with field glasses, and asked what we were looking at.

They told us that our moving water was a loon. They'd seen it mentioned on the web, and come to take a look. Specifically, a red-throated loon (Gavia stellata). The boy shared his field glasses, and I lucked out and had them at the right moment, when the loon was above water. We stayed outside for a few minutes, wishing for better light (it was an overcast morning).

The sun came out about ten minutes later. We grabbed our cameras (and a set of field glasses, but I never took them out of their pouch). The light was a lot better, and the loon was spending more time above the surface. We walked around the edge of that bit of water, taking photos, a few of which came out reasonably well. I uploaded several of mine to Flickr. Here are three, cut to save your friends page.

( photos of a loon )

Red-throated loons are less common than the common loon (which we saw one of in the park 15 years ago). Also, while New York is in their winter range, the summer range doesn't normally go south of Newfoundland and Manitoba.

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Crossposts: https://redbird.livejournal.com/1152864.html

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Most of this I just posted to

baaaaabyanimals, but I like them enough to put them in my own journal as well.

Four baby otter photos, taken about ten days ago:

( small otters, large images )

( and a tapir for Timprov )

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Most of this I just posted to

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Most of this I just posted to

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cattitude and I spent a couple of hours at the Bronx Zoo today. From what the woman at the information desk said, the stories about them having to close exhibits and send animals away may be completely without foundation. They did have only one snow leopard on display, and no red pandas, but those animals are being sent all the way to Central Park, and weren't on the published list of animals being exiled.

We had a good time, and saw baby animals—a tree kangaroo we'd known about, and a litter of otters and some langurs we hadn't—but didn't see the lion cub, who may not have been out in public. We only spent a couple of hours, because it was unseasonably hot, and sunny in the way a Spring day can be when the trees are just starting to leaf out. It was also an excellent day for looking at turtles.

I took my camera, and got some good photos. I've fiddled with some of them, and put a few up on Flickr, but no baby animals yet.

( pictures of animals and plants behind this cut )

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Current Mood: happy, but warm

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Current Mood: happy, but warm

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papersky kindly sent me a link to a gallery of butterfly photos from the Jardin Botanique "Butterflies are Free/Papillons en Liberté" exhibit. There are some really good images of morphos showing their wing spots against the roof, and emerging from their cocoons. A flowering cactus from above is beautiful, and would make a fine textbook illustration of the Fibonacci sequence. Here's a morpho from above, iridescent blue.

Current Mood: oooh shiny
Current Location: North America
Current Music: birds chirping outside

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Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Don't mourn, organize

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moving progress (not a complete list)

fixing my alt tags

The Internet is well known to want cat pictures

More fire rainbow photos

Montreal photos

Flowers, for amaebi

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The sound trees make

The sound trees make

Red-throated loon

Animal photos, from the Bronx Zoo

Animal photos, from the Bronx Zoo

Animal photos, from the Bronx Zoo

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