July 21, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Month: July 2007
Hap at Aspen Ridge Horse Trial
July 21, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
The young woman who is leasing him took Hap to a local horse trial last weekend. Here she is warming up before going cross country. Her father took this photo.
Five Years Ago
Five years ago today I started a web log called “Coffee and Oranges.” Blog software was still quite primitive or seemed difficult to install on a web host, so I created my own using a handful of Perl scripts. In July of 2003, I volunteered to be a beta tester of the new TypePad service and started a web log called “Five Acres with a View.” I decided to install Movable Type when the beta was over a few weeks later and kept the name of my TypePad blog which seemed more appropriate than a Wallace Stevens quote. I moved to WordPress when forced to stop running Movable Type by my web host in May 2004. I have been running some version of self-hosted WordPress since then.
If my web log was a child, it would be old enough for kindergarten in the fall. Where do the years go?
Assateague Brush
July 11, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Country Life
The local deer evidently read my web log. They interpreted my announcement that my day-lilies are blooming as an invitation to a buffet. Damn deer.
Assateague Ponies
July 11, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
These ponies were grazing near the inland bay marsh.
Seagulls at Bethany Beach
July 10, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Daylily
July 18, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
My daylilies are blooming.
Dalmatian Humor
I found this at Ugly Mailbox.com
A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire engine with lights flashing and a wailing siren at full blast zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat next to the driver of the fire engine was a Dalmatian. The children, never having seen a dog in a fire engine before, started to discuss what the dog might be for.
“They use him to keep crowds back,†said one youngster.
“No,†said another, “he’s just for good luck.â€
Several more ideas were put forward and an animated discussion soon ensued when a little girl who had sat quietly throughout the discussion and deep in thought finally brought the argument to a close…
“They use the dog,†she said firmly, “to find the fire hydrant.â€
A New Release of Scribefire
A new release of the Firefox blogging add-on, ScribeFire 1.4.1, is on Mozilla Addons. It looks much more polished. The change log is at the blog article ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging » ScribeFire 1.4.1 Released.