bodhi tree swaying

I was really just playing with the macro setting on my camera here.

There’s a lame pun in the title of this post: Addis Ababa means “new flower” in Amharic, “abeba” meaning “flower.”

Spotted on the ladder of a fire engine on a carousel in the grounds of the Ghion hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Colobus monkey. Taken at the fish market in Awassa, Ethiopia.

This is the window of Malkias’ aunt’s house in Aleta Chuko, south of Awassa. She had a lovely, spacious house, with a bamboo floor and a large garden to the rear.

In Oromia province, south of Addis, I saw a lot of men plowing with oxen. It was hard to get pictures because by the time I’d spotted them we’d have zoomed past.

There are loads of these storks at the fish market at Awassa. It’s hard to get decent pictures of them; every time I would point a camera at one, some “helpful” young boy would throw fish at it, hoping for a tip. It’s hard to photograph a stork when it’s running to get a piece of fish….

Shrijnana and Maia at Rye Beach, almost a year ago, in April 2008.

This photograph is part of Monochrome Friday.

Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire is full of little details like this. These are wooden sock stretchers in the laundry drying room.

This photograph is part of Monochrome Friday.

This picture is part of Monochrome Friday.

Propeller of the USS Albacore, an experimental submarine now in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
This photograph is a submission to Monochrome Friday.

A contribution to Monochrome Friday.

A gravestone in Abijata-Shalla National Park, Ethiopia.

This picture is part of the Monochrome Friday meme.

Maia takes after her parents (except that dad has enormous resistance to speaking on the phone).

I was up late, watching an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise on my laptop when the power went out. We’d had a power outage a week before only to have the service restored four hours later, so I wasn’t too worried. I finished watching my show on battery power and wrapped up warm for the night. Sure enough, at some time in the night I could hear various electrical devices, like the fax machine, trying to start up, over and over again. I was awoken several times by those sounds, but when we woke up for good the electricity was still out. And we’re now into the third day without power.

That first morning we heard on the battery-powered radio we keep for emergencies that there were 200,000 New Hampshire households without power. Later than was upgraded to more than 300,000 households, in NH, …