Daily Photos

< January 2024 >

January 1, 2024
How to park politely. How to park impolitely. A lot of creepy characters roam the alleys around here. Garbage collection after Christmas. Don`t look closely. Thinking about Johnny Cash.

January 2, 2024
Post-Christmas letdown (see December 8, 2023). I thanked him for taking care of one of my favorite parks. No, it didn`t snow. This was scraped from the ice rink. Sometimes it`s all about the shapes and lines. This foolish trend needs to stop (see January 9, 2023).

January 3, 2024
Frozen windshield season began today. More broken glass in the parking garage (see December 5, 2023). Things are becoming chaotic here. It`s cold on the sidewalk. Imagine how cold it is up there. It`s easier to take it down than put it up (see November 21, 2023). Note the NO LEFT TURN sign (see December 8, 2023).

January 4, 2024
Christmas is over, but the marshmallows remain. Christmas is over, but the lights remain. I went a bit overboard with the slow shutter speed. The friendly (?) confines of the parking garage. My favorite landscape.

January 5, 2024
Quality of life. He`s competing with herons and gulls. I`d love to drive a Zamboni. It`s on my list. But the list is alphabetical, so it could be a while. Opening day is April 5 (see October 27, 2023). This building was just sold for $5.5 million. I`ll let you have this photo for only half that.

January 6, 2024
If only squirrels could wear little boots. The Year 2024: so far, so good. When seasons collide. Welcome. You can see me (and my flash) reflected in the droplets.

January 7, 2024
The weather was cold, and so was the shooting. The dance team was full of enthusiasm. One of my better t-shirt toss photos (see September 15, 2023). Parking was free and admission was five bucks. I sat in the courtside seat reserved for the university president. Life is short. Make every hair flip count.

January 8, 2024
`Whatcha lookin` at, ya dumb duck?` (see March 6, 2023) `I don`t see anything. Are you sure you dropped it here?` In the bleak midwinter. A friendly sculpture. A foreboding sculpture.

January 9, 2024
It rained all day, but at least it didn`t snow all day. In winter I get gas when it`s warm, not when I need gas. There but for the grace of my Ford Fiesta go I. I`m supposed to park on the fourth level of my parking garage but it`s no longer safe (see December 11, 2023). The second level of the garage used to be reserved for lawyers, but since the pandemic nobody seems to care.

January 10, 2024
One of my coworkers made an important announcement. Violet Newstead. Judy Bernly. Doralee Rhodes. A publicity campaign (see December 21, 2023).

January 11, 2024
Tar, but no feathers. Warm air comes out of that vent, so somebody sleeps here. There were many small bottles of sanitizer nearby. There was a city below, but this is a better photo. If given the option to sit on a rock or float in freezing water, I`d choose the rock every time. This is a sidewalk. It`s been rainy lately.

January 12, 2024
I can learn a lot from the past. Your mail be a little damp today. Opening night flowers. This was a bad idea. The flowers made my nose run. Keep smiling.

January 13, 2024
I would have stayed inside where it was warm, but I had a photography workshop to teach this morning. Students in the photo workshop got lots of practice. It`s always rewarding to watch people discover how their cameras work. Plus I get paid to teach, so that`s nice. There are many sharp implements in the kitchen. Maybe one too many sharp implements in the kitchen.

January 14, 2024
At 7 degrees, I would reconsider dog ownership. Despite the cold, birds need to find food every day. I foolishly waited for the sun to melt the snow on my car. During the photo workshop yesterday (see January 13 above), I taught students how to take pictures of snow. I never went outside in the cold today, and a rather expensive ticket to a show this afternoon went unused.

January 15, 2024
If that cat licks its paws, I think its tongue might freeze. Keep your coffee. My morning begins with orange juice. It was still deadly cold, but I had an eye doctor`s appointment. This is me after getting my pupils dilated. My eyes can`t focus, but my camera can. Hours later, my eyes are still messed up.

January 16, 2024
Were there kids sledding down the roof? I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ROBERT FROST The wind was blowing bitterly cold, but this was a good shot so I stuck with it. Drove by, saw the shot, parked the car, took the shot. There`s plenty of seating on the patio.

January 17, 2024
I was grateful when the custodian came into the radio studio and mopped the snowy and salty floor. And then I rolled a chair over it all day. Why take the Christmas tree down when it can be turned into a Valentine`s Day tree? Shamrocks in March? I borrowed this book from the library and by the time I got to page 12, I had ordered my own copy. I was drinking apple juice while removing Christmas candles from the windows, so I put them to good use.

January 18, 2024
Pass the salt. It`s everywhere. Thank goodness it`s not pepper. Ah, the beauty of nature -- that I could gladly do without. I need to take a new picture of myself. I might try it here. This doesn`t really count as a picture of myself.

January 19, 2024
Hey neighbor, wanna do my car next? No foraging chickadees today (see January 14 above). This is a color photo. Wait -- what? A considerate person? It`s 10 degrees and my furnace isn`t working, so I hastily bought my first space heater. $64.49 saved my life.

January 20, 2024
Before the sun was even up, my furnace was repaired. Consider this a zealous endorsement of Barker HVAC. In high school there aren`t many divers, so they hung around together although they were on different teams. At the instant a swimmer`s head came out of the water, teammates yelled `GO!` There was no time for more. I used to swim quite a lot. I`d get in the pool and not come out until I had swum a mile. That`s a lot of laps. I changed my mind about where to take a picture of myself (see January 18 above). My office was easier.

January 21, 2024
I can`t imagine why my furnace stopped working (see January 19 above). I mean, it was just serviced in 2016. I hate winter. I hate snow. But at least I can wear boots. Don`t put your tongue on that. A small Japanese robot is getting cold up there. I am the photographer that ate Cleveland.

January 22, 2024
Surplus radio equipment. Can you hear me now? When I started in radio in 1987, this was cutting edge. So much of our technology is about communication, but are we really listening to each other? Time has run out on this obsolete equipment.

January 23, 2024
I don`t have a memory card case, but I`m good at crafts. At my workplace, `air quality` is a contradiction in terms. Yes, I`m glad it`s not snow . . . but it rained all day long. The fog tonight was dangerous to drive in. `Do Not Refrigerate` says the container. I put them in the refrigerator by mistake and they taste ten times better!

January 24, 2024
Indoor fog and indoor rain. The roof is four levels above. The rain falls upon the just and the unjust. From this angle, I can`t tell which of the two this person is. Creativity takes many forms. Can I borrow 65 cents? Getting a coffee for someone else: this person is just.

January 25, 2024
It was warm enough to take pictures in the morning. There was a ghostly fog everywhere. Wherever the cardinal was, a mockingbird wanted to be. More in my continuing series of Water Drops on Things. This reminded me of presidential primaries, as political parties try to get everybody to fall in line behind a leader.

January 26, 2024
Humans planning for the future. Squirrels have other plans. In January, robins feast on these berries. This robin gobbled them down too fast for my camera. I`m lucky if I can get a picture of a duct tape bunny.

January 27, 2024
Bellbrook High School: Fellow Traveler. Archbishop Carroll High School: In My Regency Era, Carroll`s Version. Franklin High School: The Search. Hamilton High School: WG-opoly. Westerville High School: Will Be Waiting.

January 28, 2024
We`re getting close to 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Oh darn, I was hoping to photocopy some coins. Two buildings stare at each other all day. I hope they get along. I like to imagine that the roots of a tree are exactly like its branches, but just underground. I don`t need artificial intelligence, thanks. I have my own.

January 29, 2024
Scooters demand parking equality! Coexist with nature. I was lucky to find this, but it was diligence (and not luck) that brought me to the flooding river on a cold winter day. Always take the upward path. The birds aren`t touching it, but somebody else might (see November 29, 2023).

January 30, 2024
Emily Dickinson was mistaken. I could stop for death. A coworker quits. I get cake (see January 10 above). I stayed where it was dry and shot through the window. My second book in one month (see January 17 above)?! A coworker quits. I get cookies.

January 31, 2024
It`s not pitch dark when I get off work now. That`s good, because I took zero pictures during the day. I had my big camera, and people were giving me looks. I took Petula Clark`s advice. Thanks for reaching out. Not what I was going for, but still intriguing.

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