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Monaco TDF 2009 Starting point.

My tweets will be... Well like tweets. Fortunately I'll be using an ap called loopt that will cross post across all the other places you can usually find me, except for myspace! Does anybody use that anymore? Thanks to Gilly for making my tweets visible in the blog. I think it's a bit more my style to write few words and let the picture tell you the story. Oh, the cool thing about loopt is it will give you a link to click that will show you a map with my location when I posted the tweet. Kirk out

Where's Erik?

Ever notice that wherever Erik goes, he's always somewhere?

See where he is and what he's up to there in his Twitter feed over in the sidebar on the right.

Roses and Rachel

Here's a slideshow from Sunday: pictures of Janice's pretty roses and a pretty picture of Janice and our little cousin Rachel.

I Love a Rainy Night

It felt like we had a thunderstorm every day for the first two weeks of July. I loved it for three reasons.

1) Free Water

The garden got watered for free with no effort on my part.

2) Rainbows

Here's one I spied in Meriden.

3) Lots of post-storm raindrops for a digital macro-obsessed photographer

Here are some on our lupines and snap peas.

From Our Garden ::...

From Our Garden ::...

From Our Garden ::...

From Our Garden ::...

Sun One Fun

In May, Andy took a bunch of us to Sun One Organic Farm in Bethlehem to lend Farmer Bob some hands and work on our farmer's tans. I learned how to plant beans, weeded a lot of garlic, had a great lunch at Farmer Bob's super-efficient house, and met some nice folks. 

I learned so much about growing veggies that day, but that didn't deter me from being fascinated by wildflowers. Of course, I took several digital macro photos. I just...can't...stop.

From Sun One Farm ...

From Sun One Farm ...

Hautacam

American Cyclist Christian Vandevelde after finishing 10th on Stage  10 here on the 2008 Tour de France. I have to thank my new mate Carl  for letting me use his sweet Canon to snap some shots at the finish line up here at 1520 meters.

Our Texture Garden

A few weeks ago I picked up a few plants that I liked for their textures.

Fluffy: 'Silver Mound' Artemisia - It's so soft that I encourage people to pet it.

Pointy: Dianthus

Fuzzy: Woolly Thyme

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Here I am again with the slightest bit of free time. We drove from Saint-Brieuc last night to the city of Nantes. We got in rather late  after a long drive and a long day. We were up early this morning but got the call that the power trucks had not gotten up and running so we had a leisurely brekkie and then walked to the very long narrow line of TV trucks set up between the finish line and a river. Work went fairly well and we got out in time to take a nice stroll back to the hotel with some day light since the sun doesn't set here until about 10:30 which is kind of freaky. Check out the place we stumbled upon on our stroll home!

Erik and the Bird

You may have seen this photo before. It's been circulating for a couple of years. When I see stuff like this, I can't help but wonder: what is going on in this picture?

Let me set the scene for you. Erik and I were visiting Grandma and Grandpa in Gloucester when we heard a thump on the living room window. Grandpa went outside to investigate.

The rest of us followed. It was a stunned, but alive, juvenile robin that had crashed into the glass.

Gentlemen...Behold...The Shed

A couple of autumns ago, Erik spent just about all of his free time building a sweet new shed.

Pretty in Pink

Our Rhododendrons were really nice this year. They produced tons of blossoms as well as a lot of new foliage.

I took too many photos, of course, but forced myself to edit ruthlessly and put only four in the garden album.

Ploermel, Brittany France

We had some time to walk around before heading in for our first day of work today. I like this pic I snapped of an old church/cathedral in the center of town.

Tomorrow I'm up at 7:00 to head over and begin digitizing all our pre edited materials and all the specialty elements that we'll use in our daily edits starting Saturday.

France really has a chance

I'm here!!! Had a whirlwind travel day and got to talk to a lot of interesting folks in my travels thus far.
I got to ride in our rental car with an absolutely nutty dude name Bob Roll. If you click on that link you can get the gist of what he might be like in person. I kind of wish I had read it prior to meeting him, but at the same time it may have ruined the surprise.  He drives like and absolute maniac which is totally awesome! In the thick Paris traffic it's an absolute must to have a guy like him at the wheel. It's a lot like an R rated amusement park ride if you can imagine such a thing! He is constantly chattering as he weaves in and out of traffic, berating anyone or anything that gets in his way. We made what could have been a five hour trip more like 4, but the entertainment factor made seem even quicker!!!

I'm off to take a walk around the lake here in Ploermel and then head into work to start setting things up. Our race coverage begins on Saturday at 8:30am EDT.

Adieu!

So Long, Ashburnham

Before my mother and step-father moved away from Ashburnham a couple of years ago, I asked Erik and Craig to take a walk with me in the woods behind the house.

You Know Iris?

The first time I saw our house, six years and six weeks ago, I fell in love with the Irises.

I probably should have been paying attention to other things, like pipes and insulation and whether or not the windows opened and closed. But I loved the Irises. They smell like grape candy.