Photo 365 - Thunderhead

I left work, turned left, and this is what I saw. I actually drove a bit before deciding I couldn't let this thunderhead cloud go away unphotographed. So I turned around went back to a good spot for a picture, hopped out of the car and made it happen. By the time I got home this had boiled up and been surrounded by masses of other clouds that turned gray and dumped buckets of rain, thunder and lightening on the neighborhood. By sunset it was all over.

Photo 365 - Chicago Dog

My Twitter/Facebook update that went up at the time this picture was taken said "At Old Chicago, eating a Chicago Dog, watching the Twins play the Chicago White Sox". 'nuff said.

Photo 365 - Sunset

One of those pictures where you turn a corner and say, wow- that would make a nice picture.

Photo 365 - Espresso Cleaning

This is a bit of a placeholder picture, I didn't have anything else on this day. But on the theory that each Photo 365 picture could act as a reference shot for future improved versions of the photos, this one shows a picture of Steam. Class, lets go take a better picture of "Steam". Perhaps evaporation off a pond at sunrise would be a close enough "improved version".

Photo 365 - Turtle Rescue

Back from my trip just in time to catch this little dude trying to cross a busy road. The spousal-unit and I stopped and pulled him off the street, snapped his picture, then put him in a wooded wetland nearby. Hopefully he'll stay off the street in the future.

Photo 365 - Boston Bridge

I took this picture while on an unplanned detour returning to the Boston Airport. After returning home I googled the bridge and found it is actually the Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge. Nice name, nearly as complex as the design. Still, not a bad picture for a spur of the moment stuck in traffic photo.

Photo 365 - Double Tree

It may not look like a tree, or even a double tree, but that's what it is. A quick walk through the neighborhood near the hotel turned up a lot of commerical property and not much else. Not very photogenic on the outside, it was comfortable enough on the inside.

Photo365 - Sweet Dreams

The hotel I stayed at has this nice pillow arrangement to greet travelers. It is cute, I'm just wondering if anybody actually uses that many pillows when they sleep.

Photo 365 Project - Late Arrival

On a business trip to Boston my flight was delayed, leaving me with the arrival time shown in the picture. I'm crediting this photo to the day I left on the trip, not the morning of my arrival.

Photo 365 Project - Flowers

These flowers are guarding the side of my garage. I was opposed to the sunflowers, but the spousal-unit's plan seems to have come together nicely.

Photo 365 Project - XFiles Alaska Comic

OK, a filler photo. I took this as a reference photo but then didn't take any other pictures that day. So here you go, a memo to myself in photo form.

Photo 365 Project - Carriage Hills Road

The construction continues. Unfortunately the road I was using as a reference point for photos has been removed! I'll have to wing it and take pictures from about the same spots as the transition from Carriage Hills Golf Course to Stonehaven Housing Development continues.

Photo 365 Project - Odometer

I've gotten a little behind in posting photos but rest assured, I've got them! I may have missed a day or two, but I'll try to upload in batches of a few a day to get caught up. Catching this picture of my car's odometer at 44444 was a bit tricky but seems to have worked out. No one was injured in the taking of this photo.

Photo 365 Project - Bookstore

A favorite stop of mine in the Promenade.

Photo 365 Project - Something Wicked Redeux

Yes, Redeux is a word (sort of, does Urban Dictionary count?).

It was (going to be) a dark and stormy night. The front rolled in from the west and hovered over my neighbor's house long enough to get this pic of the day. For a comparision, a much more damaging storm rolled over the same spot not long ago.

Photo 365 Project - Carriage Hills July 2010

The construction is underway. Current activity is focused on relocating hills into valleys to make a "relatively flat but still rolling" terrain. I think one of the things that did in this 120 acre 18 hole golf course was that it was too hilly. My observation is golfers don't like to work too hard while getting their exercise. That and the fact that the money made from a golf course is less than the money to be made from 368 housing units, but I'm just guessing. For a comparison phot, see another Carriage Hills / Stonehaven picture.

Photo 365 Project - Potbelly

Another trip to the Promanade in my town. Potbelly makes a delicious meat ball sub and some tasty Banana Strawberry shakes.

Photo 365 Project - Regal Cinema

It was movie night and as I left the theater I still hadn't taken a picture. Problem solved. The movie we saw was Inception, very fun.

Photo 365 Project - Heart of the City

My company's office (liberal use of the phrase "my company", but you get the idea) is located in a city that decided to try to grow a heart. Suburban sprawl had left it without a distinct "downtown" "uptown" or "midtown", but they had some land and wanted to reinvigorate it. A few years in now it is looking pretty good. The real estate downturn has slowed things, but the heart has a pulse. Maybe more a 'resting heart rate' than 'beating' but still a pulse.

Photo 365 Project - Oh Hai

After almost loosing the cat, I thought I'd update everyone. Her location is known. In this case, she greeted us when we got home, almost like she was saddling up to a bar to tell a tale or hear where we had been.