Daily Archives: July 21, 2010
13 Happy Things
Hey, I’m in the mood. 1. It’s been a cool summer here in Montana. Only in the last few weeks have we sweltered. 2. I took my fancy new camera to the 4th of July celebration in town and got these shots. It was my first attempt at night photography with this camera. Considering I’m still learning, I thought they came out pretty good. 3. Cold, crisp watermelon in the afternoon. Yum. 4. My new cell phone is great. It […]
Ah Maria, How to Educate a Heedless Lady
Mr. Al’s take on Marie Antoinette, as seen by her mother, continues. I must beg forgiveness of all my readers for a mistake that I made last week. I said that Marie Antoinette was not born to be Queen of France. This was quite true. However, she had been pledged to to wed the Dauphin at age eleven. This should have given mom plenty of time to prepare her except for the fact that she actually got married when she […]
Poll and TRP
Would you all mind weighing in on the current poll? It’s kind of time sensitive. And now for the Totally Random Pictures. These are my first two: I said in the comments of my last 365 that I’d be tossing these in now and then, sometimes with no relationship to what the post is about. I came back from a family bicycle ride to a beautiful sunset. I stayed home just long enough to grab my camera. Still, that was […]
