Day 83

I went for a walk in a new place in Newton today and found this. These jersey barriers are blocking off an old access road. If you noticed that the one in the middle looks funny, it's because someone (kids I assume) has modified it into a skateboard ramp using sakrete. Pretty enterprising, for a bunch of little hooligans.

Day 63

Pinhole!!! Today, I ran my first two rolls of film through the pinhole camera I built. The first one was a complete bust... light leakage. I went back home, stuck more electrical tape all over the damn thing, and it works! I definitely need to work on my exposure times, but dammit, it works. These are some flowers photographed from about 6 inches away with about a 10 second exposure in bright evening sun. I think the photo guys at CVS think I'm insane.

Day 53

I thought these waterlillies were beautiful.

Day 49

Today was our first trip to the Watertown public pool this year. It's really a great facility to be open to the public for no charge, I'm very impressed. The weather today wasn't quite warm enough (in my opinion, not Nikki's), but we swam for a while anyway. We're going to try going back on the 4th, maybe there won't be so many people then.

Day 43

Nikki and I went for a great walk today up the Charles in Waltham. This picture is the fish ladder at the dam by Moody Street. We stopped at the midpoint of our walk and did a little shopping and got some "frappes" (milkshakes to the rest of the country). I bought a pinhole camera, which I spent several hours assembling this afternoon. I haven't seen that much Elmer's Glue since grade school. Hopefully, I'll take a few blogworthy pictures with it soon. I still need rubber bands to hold the whole thing together.