Backyard, Saturday

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I’m shooting a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60. (That’s an affiliate link. If you buy, I get something, but the price stays the same.)

This new Lumix is an upgrade from my older Lumix which is getting sluggish and behaving badly, though I loved, loved, loved shooting it this winter; I didn’t touch my Nikon. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to use a camera that shoots this kind of quality and fits in your back pocket.

Nope, I don’t work for Lumix, nope, they don’t even know I exist. But yeah, I love this thing.

 

Coffee Story in “Morning Calm”

I’m happy with the way this turned out, and the edits look like they were for fit, only. I also did not expect to be in the photos, so that’s amusing. The whole story is here, but if you’re flying Korean Airlines, you might find it in your seatback pocket.

I’m Going to Trinidad

My friend A. was invited on a press trip and could not go, so he recommended the organizers take me instead. “You’ll love it,” he said, “the music there is amazing. You should go.” I filled out the paperwork and traded email with the PR gal who’s organizing the trip. “I don’t have an assignment, …


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Where the Story Starts

It’s hardly a state secret that the Austrians weren’t very nice during WWII. Yes, there was a resistance movement, there’s always a resistance movement. But we all know what happened. The Nazis robbed and murdered millions of people. After the war, Austria quietly integrated stolen art into its museum collections and returned to their genteel …


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Dandy

I’m supposed to curse dandelions because I have a lawn, but I just can’t. They look like little universes of exploding stars. And a friend reminded me that Carl Sagan’s original Spaceship of the Imagination was shaped like a dandelion seed, so now that they’re mostly blown away, I wonder where they’ve gone.