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God's Recreation Of A New Day / Canon EOS 7D
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I saw this beautiful flower during an early walk with Heidi.
- Canon EOS 7D 100mm f/2.8.
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the wordSweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet passMine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day
Silver Balls and Ivory Flippers
Gleaming details from treasures at the Silverballs Pinball Museum, Asbury Park, NJ
Close Encounters with a Red and Black Spider
My son was helping me mow the lawn on Thursday and were at the back of the house next to the water heater when he backed into a thick spider web. He thankfully didn't notice the rather large spider partially land on his sleeve. By the time he'd freed himself from the strands a rather annoyed spider was clambering back to her lair, her web in tatters. I returned this afternoon and coaxed her out of hiding for a couple of pictures. What had struck me about her the first time was her crenelated bulbous and patterned abdomen. She spent most of the time with her legs drawn beneath her not wanting to show herself off for the camera but she did oblige by clambering about a little for me. When we were done | gently returned her to her hidey-hole, indignant but none the worse for wear.
After downloading the photos I looked on the Internet hoping to identify this spider. I didn't come across any wonderfully verbose or useful identification resources but I think the Victoria Museum got me there in the end. I hope I have identified her correctly as a Red and Black Spider, Ambicodamus crinitus, a harmless web spinning garden spider whose orange or red colouring often mistakes it as highly venomous species.
There's Nothing like Doing Voices in the Morning
I woke up this morning to find that my good buddy Ray had afforded me a URL to a small software house looking for people to do voices for their new video game. Immediately, I leapt to the microphone -- filled with the wonder of accomplishment -- just before I realized that my voice need to warm up. If you've never done any voice work, realize that before you start stretching it in weird and unusual ways to match odd little character voices, you really should follow the directions of Zombieland and limber up first.
I did not do that.
That means that right now, I sound disturbingly croaky and a little weird.
That doesn't matter to you, because I am including the test audio that recorded for Voodoo Software mere minutes ago. I think it's safe to say that I have way more fun doing the voices for villainous character than I do for a heroic character. I'll leave it to you to figure out why that is, I'm sure that speculation will run rampant, and I completely support that activity. One day I hope to be famous enough that there is an entire community devoted to speculating on my personal life on LiveJournal. Until that time comes, dear readers, it is up to you.
