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Ok, there's this big nasty looking spider hanging out by the sliding door to our room at my wife's parents' house. Somebody tell me what it is.

Last week, while I was walking around the yard at my wife's parents' place, I ran across this largish dragonfly. It seemed like it would make a neat picture, so I took a photo. I thought it turned out pretty good, so I made it my current desktop photo.

Took this one yesterday morning at sunrise. It's a little blurry because of a slow shutter speed (1/4s) and lack of a tripod, but I think it captures nicely the neat orangy sunlight I get to wake up to most mornings.

Not quite sure what kind of spider this guy is, but I spotted it hanging out by the back door. I think the top side of it was a whitish gray with dark stripes. I thought the bright orange spots were kind of cool

Institute of Psychiatry IOP, not Isle of Palms IOP

Caught this view on the way to the car a couple of weeks ago. Turned out a little different than I thought it would.

This is one of the first pictures I took with the new camera. This was with a zoom factor of about 8 or 9 and shows how nicely the image stabilization works. It's much reduced from the original 32xx by 23xx (8 MP) pixel image. I'm really liking this camera so far.

A colony of fire ants took up residence next to the patio, so I thought I'd try the camera out on them and catch them in action.

There are plenty more photos in my gallery to browse through. Go check them out.

Higher resolution versions of these photos to show up in my gallery soon

Finally sorted through all the pictures from my trip to Edmonton and posted a bunch in my gallery. Go check them out.

This is the corner grocery store/diner that Dad used to own when we were kids. Mom used to take us there on weekends where we'd either hang out in the back or help out getting stuff off the shelves or bagging. Sometimes we even got to play with the calculator. Dad eventually closed the diner part (turning it into more grocery store space) and then closed the store for good in the early 80s. It seems to have been a succession of pawn shops ever since then.

Mom says I was 10 months old in this picture.

I brought back my old photo album with me, so there are plenty of pictures that I need to digitize. Time to go scanner shopping.