Double Exposures are my new favorite thing.

I sure would like another crack at these shots…

Just sayin’.

Did you have a happy St Patrick’s Day?

Jen called me at about 6:30 last night. I was trudging through downtown Lowell, trying to avoid a huge traffic jam on route 495 North. There was deer in the back yard. Not in the woods beyond the back yard, but IN THE BACK YARD! Eight of them. EIGHT OF THEM!

The kids got to see them. It was their first deer viewing at our house. I missed it. I was kinda sad. I like the idea of a gentle wild kingdom behind our house. I don’t want anything scary, like mountain lions or grizzly bears, or Tasmanian devils, or anything like that. Deer are good. They do their thing. That’s all. Hopefully as the Spring rolls on we’ll see some antlers on the bucks. I’m hoping we do at least.

My celebration of the Deer Infused St Patrick’s Day was limited to walking in the back yard looking for hoof prints in what’s left of the snow. It was my first walk back their since December, when the snow came to stay. I managed to get all the way back to the woods without stepping on a flake of snow. Mud was another issue, or course, but no snow.

Spring is coming, folks. It’s pretty much here!

Stop downloading toy camera apps!

This one does double exposures!

Also, weird two lens looking thingies.

As well as single exposures.

Jen and the kids saw deer today.

8 of them!

I saw the growing lake. That’s all.

To all of my Irish friends:
Happy St Patrick’s Day.

To all of my friends who are not Irish but who pretend to be for one day each year:
Happy St Patrick’s Day.

To all of my friends who aren’t Irish but really wish they were:
Happy St Patrick’s Day.

To all of my friends who live in Boston, MA:
Happy Evacuation Day.

Two great holidays on the same day… and I don’t get the day off for either of them. Crud.

A quick update on Mom, she had her hospital appointment yesterday. It went well. She was tired, but otherwise fine. Good news.

A quiet night last night. Jen had to work late and I magically got home first. After sitting on the couch watching Family Guy for about 15 minutes she called me and asked me if I wanted to meet her for dinner. I did. So I drove to her office to pick her up. Within seconds it was decided to just drive someplace close to home and leave the van at her work. I had to get up early to drive her in this morning, but that was fine… with the exception of a bridge being out on Brown Street in Tewksbury. Stupid thing. I got around it though.

Yesterday demonstrated both the huge upside to daylight savings time and the major downside. The upside is that I got home from work before the sun went down. Granted, I had magical traffic luck and it only took an hour to get home, but even if I needed the normal 75 minutes or so I still would have been home before sunset. The downside is that when the alarm clock goes off at 6:00am it is still dark outside. When I say dark I mean, dark. I had gotten used to having some light coming in the window to help wake me up in the morning. Those days are over for a little while. I can live with it though.

No new news on Mom yet. She has an appointment tomorrow. I’ll let you know how that goes. Fingers crossed.

In closing, beware the ides of March and all that fun stuff. If your name is Caesar you might want to consider not going out in public today. Just saying.