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Ben and I are attempting to break ourselves out of our hermit-like ways. Every year, a friend of ours hosts a picnic at the Oakland Cemetery. We know a fair people who were invited, and we thought it’d be a neat thing to do. I love it when I’m right.
Saw a lot of old friends, met a few new ones. All in all, it was delightful. I brought my camera but didn’t take nearly as many pictures as I would have liked. I’m telling myself that one day I’ll just hop the train and head to the cemetery to get a slew of pictures… but we all know how these things go. It could still happen.
At one point, one of my new friends and I went for a smoke/walk. We rambled all over the place, taking random turns and chatting. Most of the pictures under the cut are from that walk. I didn’t take any pictures of people there, because I know I’m weird about having my picture taken; just being respectful and all that jazz.
Pictures are under the cut.
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Anyone who knows me knows that with every new year, i like to do a hairstyle. Well, most often it’s a buzz cut. But what about this year? Was it a mohawk? Another buzz cut? A professional ‘do? Only one way to find out…
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As much as i love posting pictures of places and things, i’m somewhat protective of pictures of my immediate family. I had a few pictures of my dad and brother hanging out on my brother’s porch, but i didn’t like that it showed enough background landmarks to determine whereabouts he lives… so i chose to not post them. I wish i’d managed to get some indoor pictures so i could have posted something. That’s on my to-do list for the next time i visit, because i like seeing their smiling faces.
When i was in Chicago, my dad and i went through my grandma’s enormous box of family photos. In that box are hundreds of pictures – even some old daguerreotypes. I took pictures of some of them until i realized there were just too many, at which point i started scanning them in on my parents’ computer. I emailed them to myself, and just took an hour or two to crop ‘em, clean them up, and now i’m posting them.
So, in chronological order, there are oodles of my family pictures behind the cut.
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Holy snap and good gravy, i can’t believe i’ve forgotten to post these. These are from my vacation back in, what, August? Clicky to view parts one and two.
Okay, so my parents picked me up at the train station after my nice long ride on Amtrak. I had a funny little moment where i thought i was going to wind up being over an hour late; turns out that my phone hadn’t bothered to change time when we crossed the time change line. Fun stuff.
It feels like i didn’t get as many pictures of Chicago as i did of Michigan, but my dad, stepmum and i did take a few trips to various parts of Chicago and East Chicago specifically for the purpose of taking pictures. So without further blathering, here are some pictures behind the cut.
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After spending a few days in Michigan, i took a train from Ann Arbor to Chicago. It was delightful; as we were boarding, i found myself towards the tail end of the line. This meant that by the time i got on the train, there were nearly NO available seats in the first car… but the second car was delightfully empty. It did fill up a bit, but it was very quiet, and i had a front-row seat (which meant i could stretch my legs quite nicely).
It was a 5 hour train ride, and my camera’s batteries died after 2 hours. Guess how happy i was about that? Peh. I wound up taking about 130 pictures on the train, and only six of them came out. I’m actually rather pleased about that number, given that i was taking pictures through a window that was scrungy on the outside, and the train was generally moving at 79 mph (standard for long distance passenger trains, if i recall correctly). These aren’t the greatest pictures i’ve ever taken, but they’re the best of that bunch.
And without further ado… pictures behind the cut!
Continue reading Vacation, part 2: Transition via Amtrak
My husband’s parents are way too cool to refer to them as “in-laws”. In any case, i was hanging out with Ben’s folks for a few days – and how cool is that, that i can go hang out with them by myself? I didn’t get as many pictures as i’d wanted to, but here’s what i’ve got.
Pictures behind the cut; normally i do batches of photos in gallery style, but i want to add commentary, so they’re posted individually.
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Ben’s folks came to visit us, and as a treat, they took us to the Atlanta Aquarium! I’d never been there before, so of course i brought my camera and went nuts. I took some 200+ photos, which means that i’ve got just under 30 really neat pictures. I’ve put them below a cut, because there’s a lot of pictures, and even the thumbnails take a minute to load…
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