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It was surprisingly warm on the dog walk this morning. Around 40F, and the sunrise was incredible. I’m kind of glad it’s Friday, but I’ve got a big stack of work ahead of me. Hope you all have a fun weekend!

This is a picture I took about two weeks ago, during the really cold days after the snow storm. It’s my job to walk Liv in the mornings, almost always right after waking up. So, this shot was taken before 7am, during the coldest part of the morning. I had just walked Liv around the block, and I looked down and saw that frost had formed on the edges of her fluff and wiskers. I thought to myself “It must be really cold.” Got inside, checked the temperature, and sure enough, it was -21.6C (-7F) out there.

It’s been warmer since, thank goodness.

We had a great party on Saturday night! Maike brought over all of her stuff for the feuerzagenbowle (actually feuerzangenbowle). This is a pretty and tasty German tradition that we’ve been able to convince Maike to make for us every year. Usually we do it around Halloween, but this year we waited until close to Christmas which is more along the lines of how it is made in Germany.

We also had a lot of fun decorating inappropriate Christmas cookies, and stuffing our faces full of Ute’s incredibly good breads and Black Forest Cherry cake. We had a great crowd, and a really nice time. Thanks everybody!

I’ve started up a spot in the photo gallery for adding in pictures of Christmas decorations and festivities. Feel free to check it out: Christmas 2006 Gallery.

This is a shot I took in the middle of the snow storm that hit last week. It snowed for about 24 hours and when it was over, we had about 8 inches on the ground. It was a pretty snow, and a fun day to run around in it.

Yey! The new battery and charger arrived last night! I was finally able to free the hundred-or-so pictures that had been trapped on the camera. Thinking back on it now, I probably could have just found myself an SD card reader and pulled them off that way, but I didn’t think of that until it was too late.

So, this picture has a pretty fun story associated with it. Last week, on the day after the big snow, I took a late lunch break and drove up to Rotary Park near Horsetooth Reservoir to try to get some good pictures of the new snow. As I drove down the road over the dams, I could see this beautiful fog being blown around on top of the water, it was an incredible sight.

When I got up to Rotary, there was one other person there. Another guy, bundled up against the cold, with his tripod and very nice camera out, trying to take the same pictures I wanted! So, of course, I took a couple pictures of him taking pictures.

When I got close enough he stood up and smiled at me, and I said (rather lamely) “Um, hi. Do you Flickr?” What kind of question is that? It doesn’t even make sense. If he didn’t know what I was talking about, he would probably classify me as mentally challenged. But he just laughed and said “I was just about to ask you that!”

So, here I have met another Flickrite. His name is AJ, and I had actually commented on a couple of his photos just the day before. Now I’ve met another cool local photographer via the internet. He invited me to future Ft. Collins Flickr gatherings, and I think I’ll probably go.

This is the picture I took of AJ. It is a bit of an experiment, and I’m still kind of futzing with it. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

Boy, no camera battery is really boring. I should dig out some older photos and post them. But, for now, I’m having fun just playing with the site. I added a new catagory where site update posts can be archived. If you look through these posts in the future, it will effectively be the same as the “What’s New!” section of the old site.

Also, due to a few requests, I’ve decided to experimentally turn back on comments. Feel free to let me know what you think about a post by clicking on the “comments” link below. Hopefully I’ll have better luck this time moderating the spam.

Update: Ironically, this post is getting more spam than any other! What is up with that? I’m dissallowing comments on this post for the time being. Sorry!

Well, the good news is it’s almost Christmas and life is busy with many wonderful things. The bad news is I lost the charger for my D70 battery and it went dead last week, so no new pictures until the new one comes from Amazon. Sorry.

On Saturday, I put my head down and set up the Movies! page (finally), so go check it out! We don’t have tons of footage just yet, but I’m hopping to add one or two clips from each trip in the future. Enjoy!