NationalNightOut-8-7-07-023
Originally uploaded by ryan.damage.
It was really hot on August 7, but some intrepid cyclists celebrated in fine style. "Ryan Damage" took the photos.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Happy Tartan Day
tartan days pipers
Originally uploaded by MBK (old skool).
from the photo set
Missouri Tartan Days in St. Charles, Missouri, April 1, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
st. patrick's day carpet
Originally uploaded by pbo31.
I haven't been blogging much at all lately, spending most of my online time on Flickr.com uploading photos of my own every day. This is a photo that someone else took; I found it on Flickr by searching for "green" and "Irish" to find something suitable to the season.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Carnivale
Another lady in black and pink
Originally uploaded by Alaskan Dude.
from the photo set Carnivale 2007, Venice by Alaskan Dude
It's Carnival Time!
BreakingTheBoredom
Originally uploaded by *eSThER*.
In St. Louis, Missouri, the "big" Mardi Gras parade will take place very soon. Right now it's snowing. I haven't decided yet whether to brave the weather, and the crowds, and the lack of places to park, in order to see any of the parade.
Mardi Gras in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis used to be a small intimate affair. As the yearly celebration grew, the things that I really enjoyed, like being able to freely walk along taking photos of whatever caught my fancy, became impossible with the huge number of people coming into the narrow streets of Soulard. Now you must choose a spot to stand and stick with it. Photos are harder to get because of all the people jumping in front of you and reaching up to catch beads. The Soulard bars make more money now. But it's harder to find a place that features the traditional Mardi Gras music that I prefer to the vanilla pop and rock sounds that most of the taverns or parade floats blast into the street.
This morning I'm watching the snow fall as I browse around Flickr.com looking at photos from Rio de Janeiro, Barkus pet parades, and other colorful stuff. Here's some of the stuff I found so far:
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Carnaval by bossa67
Carnaval 2006 by Tonspi
Carnaval 2006 (Rio) by OLD SKOOL Cora
Carnaval, Rio by OLD SKOOL Cora
More Carnaval (Rio) by OLD SKOOL Cora
Mardi Gras 2006 (New Orleans) by toff murray
Barkus 2007 (New Orleans) by golly4wally
Barkus 2006 (New Orleans) by Okaggi (a photographer from Washington state)
Krewe of Barkus 2006 (New Orleans) by rosie rose
New Orleans by Scharlachrot (J.N. Darby)
Barkus (New Orleans) by mistiesanzen
Mom's visit (New Orleans) The first weekend of Mardi Gras 2007: Oshun, Pygmalion, riding with the Vespa krewe in Shangri-La, Carrolton, and Barkus, by photosharp
Barkus (New Orleans) by Nola Tom
Barkus 2007 (New Orleans) by boxchain
Krewe of Barkus 2006 (New Orleans) by boxchain
Barkus 2007 (New Orleans) by annamarie504
Riding with Krewe of King Arthur, Feb. 11, 2007 (New Orleans) by Maitri
Mardi Gras 2006 Parades & Antics (New Orleans) by Maitri
barkus (New Orleans) photos by Mamish
Barkus 2007 (New Orleans) by pinkmartini15
Krewe of Mutts (Baton Rouge) by mfreyder
Barkus 2006 (Soulard) by bfelice
Mardi Gras 2007 (Soulard) by Herkie
Barkus Pet Parade (Soulard) by nutmeg021
canines (St. Louis) by danzeye
The snow is letting up a little bit. Maybe I'll make it to Soulard yet!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Giant Turkey Suggests Pork for Thanksgiving
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Temple Sunset
temple sunset
Originally uploaded by Sara Heinrichs (awfulsara).
The photographer, Sara Heinrichs, says:
Riding back to the guesthouse on my rented bicycle from a day of exploring and photography when the sky turned amazing colors. Stopped and hustled off the road to these, the nearest temples, set the camera on a low wall, & took this shot.
This photo is one of many great shots in her photoset those you like best. Sara includes in that set her photos that have been "faved" by 50 or more people. Every one of them is well worth viewing.
I don't have any photos on flickr faved by that many people, but I do have quite a few that at least one person marked as a favorite. Many of these "faved" photgraphs must hold some kind of significance to the person doing the "faving" that I cannot fathom. Maybe the subject matter reminds the person of her childhood, or the favoriter used to work down the street from the old shack in my photo.
Of all my photos (over 24,000 so far), this one has been favorited the most:
Just wait till I get time to scan in all my old photos from my days of taking film shots. Most of my photos on Flickr are from June 2005 up to the present time, and shot with a little digital camera with only 1.3 megapixels. The quality of the images ranges from decent to pretty awful. I rarely delete anything, but I certainly don't expect anyone to look at my entire ouvre. I put lots of my photos into sets, so that you can click on a set that looks like it might interest you and see all the photos in thumbnail view. If they don't look interesting enough to click on individually, you've at least seen a little overview of what I took.
I will take a photo of just about anything except roadkill or other dead animals. Unless the dead animal is cooked for food. I take lots of photos of buildings, skies, and things that look interesting or strange to me. Lately the majority of my pictures are taken from the car.
I could spend hours on the Flickr.com website. There are all kinds of pictures, groups of photos, and discussions of photos, it would take several lifetimes to check it all out. I wish I had the time to work at my real job, sing in the choir, do my radio show, add things to this blog, take photos, hang out with my friends and family, get enough sleep, and still have the time to browse around on the Flickr site.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Bloggers create emergency blogs...
fat kills germs
Originally uploaded by MBK.
to fulfill their solemn vows to blog every half hour for 24 hours, some of the blogathon bloggers have had to start whole new blogs on the fly!
SJ's emergency blog
I'll try to catch up to what SJ is doing, I had gone out for breakfast and came back to see only one post on SJ's regular blog, The Write Coast.
I found her emergency blog at the Blogathon site.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Blogathon 2006 starts soon...
nipper and touille dog
Originally uploaded by MBK.
I won't be one of the almost 400 bloggers who will blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours. Starting at 8 AM Central Time, these intrepid folks will be blogging for charity, and preblogging is not allowed. They have to actually stay up for the 24 hours. Monitors will be watching!
I will, however, be checking out as many of the blogathoners as I can, especially my friend SJ of The Write Coast, who will be blogging for Puppies Behind Bars, a charity who helps dogs and prison inmates both, by training the inmates to raise puppies to become guide dogs for the blind and explosive detection canines for law enforcement.
I have pledged my support for SJ and Puppies Behind Bars in memory of my dog Touille.
...more information about the Blogathon...
Good Luck, Bloggers!
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