http://www.blackcore.com photography, blathering and snarky friends Sat, 03 May 2008 16:21:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, its not actually a whole week yet.  I rolled into Minneapolis early Monday morning, but close enough. My foot continues to improve every day, more rapidly than I thought it would.   Last week I was still not putting any weight on my foot when moving around - only when ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/05/03/minneapolis-one-week-update/ I left Bishop after lunch on Saturday.  My parents (as usual) were great and came up to help me load the truck.  Since I was sort of on a time crunch (needed to be in Minneapolis by Monday morning), I didn't get to take as many pictures as I'd ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/29/i-put-bishop-in-my-rearview-mirror-and-rolled-on-baby/ Yup.  Left Bishop Saturday afternoon and drove back to Minnesota.  Some (not many) pictures to come as soon as I shake off the last of the road fatigue. http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/28/back-in-minnesota-and-its-freezing-here/ My parents are gonna be rolling up here soon.  They'll stay with me and take some sights in.  Oh, also they'll help me pack my stuff in the truck because I can't.   Nice parents, huh?! Then it'll be a 1,800 mile drive back to Minneapolis.  Back to where I started ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/22/its-almost-closing-time-buddy-one-last-drink/ Another late night in organizing my photos.  Last month when I was in DC for the wedding shoot, Natalie wanted to get a photo shoot in with her daughter, but my week was so busy, the only time we could get was about 30 minutes before I'd have to dash ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/20/natalie-anaya-shoot/ So yeah.. my foot's looking better those days.  The dead skin around the fracture blister area started peeling off today.  I kind of helped it along in some areas.  Boy, I tell you.. the dried stuff under the dead skin smelled BAD!  *shudders* I still have a bit of swelling around ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/16/its-getting-there/ When I headed out to the 'Milks last week w/ my climber buddies, I couldn't resist getting *some* climbing in. So I did the safest thing out there, and campused Iron Man Traverse from start to end. J Grant Gray took this pic of me at the final holds. Click to see ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/16/campusing-iron-man-traverse/ I have this little porch on the front of my house, and with the weather getting really warm those days, I find myself sitting out there with a beer in hand and watch the sun go down behind the mountains. I didn't feel like focusing for some reason.  So blurry pics ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/14/a-sunset-a-beer-and-some-melancholy/ I was clipping my nails earlier today.  After I finished clipping my finger nails, I moved on to my toes, and it was (not so suprisingly?) interesting to note that while the nails on my left toes were getting long, the nails on my right toes had barely grown out, ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/11/it-has-other-priorities-i-guess/ I picked up my first DSLR in 2002 and started taking pictures - now six years later, I'll on occasion pick some old album of photos and just browse though them.  Because I never delete any photo I take, I can look through the rolls, in the order I took ... http://www.blackcore.com/2008/04/08/if-i-may-soar/