Economic Stimulus Plan

Today I went for a lunchtime walk towards the downtown post office in San Jose which is just a few blocks from where I work. I've always admired both the inside and outside of the building and today noticed for the first time that it is part of the San Jose History walk. It turns out that the building was built in 1933 and is "a prime example of Depression-era federal construction. The terracotta work on the building's exterior is particularly fine. Although the Main Post Office has since moved, this building continues to serve as downtown's branch post office". I thought that was very appropriate considering the current news about President Obama's stimulus plan.

So far I'm really enjoying taking my photos every day, and opening my eyes to what is around me- even just in my everyday life.

On another note, I'm still taking pictures for the 365 project. It really is much harder than I thought. The rules say that you must take the photos yourself. You can use a timer on your camera, which I do have on my Canon, but I don't carry that one with me all the time. Therefore I'm using a small Olympus camera (which does have a zoom) and my iphone for most of the self portraits. Taking a picture you can't focus on is hard! It really is a random guess and you have to take lots of them to get it right- hopefully it will get easier.

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Thank-full for health insurance

Having spent 4 hours in the emergency room last night with Dick, I am grateful that we have health insurance. It all started with a phone call from Dick saying he had fallen off his bicycle on his way home from work, and would I come and collect him as he was a 'bit banged up'? I rushed there and the first thing I saw was that I could hardly see his eyes- he was having a severe allergic reaction to something that was manifesting itself in his sinuses. All he could remember was having a huge sneezing fit after he 'woke up' having fell off his bike. 'Woke up'?? He couldn't remember hitting his head, although the scrape on the right side of his forehead showed he'd definitely banged his head. His first concern, naturally, was that the bike and his laptop were ok. However, we did not hang around to check them over, we just loaded them into the car- after he taken an anti-histamine that I always keep in my bag. For Dick to say he is hurting is unusual enough,...

Labor Day weekend to Tahoe- Part Two

Plan B was to drive over the Sonora Pass instead- a route a little further north. So the next morning we drove the very twisty windy and beautiful route. 9624 feet up. The down side was it took us several hours. A long drive through western Nevada and we finally saw the eastern side of Lake Tahoe. So blue! We were staying at Northstar- a ski resort which turns into a mountain bike and hiking haven during the summer months. We arrived too late to go on the slopes but not too late to go and enjoy the sun going down over the lake. There was a really interesting cloud formation, and so the sunset was lovely.

Corks

I started collecting wine corks a little while ago. For no particular reason. Then I decided I could make something out of them. Right now I have them in an over-sized margarita glass. They are fun to take photos of!

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