Category: Photos

Trickle Down Palm

Last week, my sister wrote and asked if I wanted her Tungsten T3 Palm, which had been superseded by a machine one of her clients had given her. Since I guessed the T3 would be miles better than my ancient Palm III, not to mention being in color instead of green and black, I wrote back “Yes!” My sister is one of those incredibly organized types who mails the same day she promises to do something, so it was delivered today.

I used the Palm OS Desktop HOWTO to find out how to sync the a USB Palm to my Linux desktop. It is much quicker than the serial sync process I was used to: in fact, I thought at first the sync must have failed it took so little time.

I was hoping that the screen of the T3 would be easier on my middle-aged eyes, and it is. I was also delighted to see what Bejeweled looks like in color, as I was not sure if my registered copy would install on the T3. Bejeweled comes in very hand when I am stuck waiting for the train to pass, or am standing in a long line at the store.

Stopping for Elk

Elk

We see deer so often in our valley that I rarely even remark them anymore, unless I see them doing something particularly unusual. However, on those rare occasions when we see elk here, I almost always stop and watch them if I have the time. There is one set of meadows that I aways check when I drive by in the late afternoon or early evening, and yesterday afternoon I was rewarded by seeing a herd of at least ten. Some of these were laying down when I first saw them, but aside from getting to their feet, they didn’t seem particularly worried by me stopping to take their photo.

Elk are so improbable, as if they had been constructed by someone who had heard about deer, but had never actually seen one.

Update: Jack reminds me that they are actually called wapiti.

Raise Havoc

Raise Havoc

My trainer took this photo a few days ago of Havoc, her 24 year old Thoroughbred. I can still remember how thrilled I was the first time she asked me if I wanted to ride him, twelve years ago. I leased him briefly before I bought Hap, and he is probably the best trained horse I have ever ridden. I still go back to him occasionally as a schoolmaster, because if you can’t get Havoc to do something, it is definitely operator error.