Bonsai Olive Tree Monkey

Bonsai Olive Tree Monkey

Posted by: on Feb 27, 2012 | No Comments

A few months ago I picked up a Bonsai-Tuscan Miniature Olive Tree from wine.woot.com. At first I had it in the house but it quickly started dropping leaves, so then I put it outside in our backyard and it seems to have stabilized and is doing much better.

Mountain Biking

Mountain Biking

Posted by: on Feb 24, 2012 | One Comment

Over the last few years I picked up mountain biking. I used to go bike riding regularly years ago, but it was always road riding on bike paths along the beach or paseos, never any real off-road “mountain bike” riding. That is until a few years ago when I decided to pick up a decent full suspension mountain bike and got serious about finding some real trails to ride, not paved paseos, but real hills to climb and single lane dirt trails to ride down. Out in the wilderness away from the concrete jungle.

Woody Calyx

Woody Calyx

Posted by: on Feb 23, 2012 | No Comments

Somehow I missed this image in my export from Lightroom from earlier in the week. This morning when walking our cat Jäger around our backyard garden, I was looking at this blossom and I realized that I didn’t include it in the desktop posts for February.

Garden Succulents in February

Garden Succulents in February

Posted by: on Feb 22, 2012 | One Comment

I love this time of year in the garden, especially the succulents. They are blooming with rich vibrant colors and uniquely complex textures and patterns that provide wonderful depth to our backyard garden.

Blossom Stigmas

Blossom Stigmas

Posted by: on Feb 20, 2012 | No Comments

I love this time of year in the garden, especially the succulents. They are blooming with rich vibrant colors and uniquely complex textures and patterns that provide wonderful depth to our backyard garden.

My Favorite Music: Alpha

My Favorite Music: Alpha

Posted by: on Feb 19, 2012 | No Comments

Series: My Favorite Music | Genre: Electronica

My first introduction into the electronica genre was in the early 90’s through a good friend who turned me onto The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, one of my favorite albums that I’ll write about later.

Hanging Succulent Blossoms

Hanging Succulent Blossoms

Posted by: on Feb 19, 2012 | No Comments

I love this time of year in the garden, especially the succulents. They are blooming with rich vibrant colors and uniquely complex textures and patterns that provide wonderful depth to our backyard garden. This week I took a handful of great photos that I’m going to be posting here over the next week.

Deus Ex: The Missing Link DLC

Deus Ex: The Missing Link DLC

Posted by: on Feb 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

While a little late, it’s better than never, I finally got back to Deus Ex: Human Revolution to play The Missing Link DLC. After a few hundred hours of Skyrim, I finally broke away to play some other games. I completed Saint’s Row: The Third, it was stupid fun but nothing amazing, then I decided to go back to one of my Top 10 Games of 2011Deus Ex and play The Missing Link DLC.

Google Android Bots Revisited

Google Android Bots Revisited

Posted by: on Feb 18, 2012 | One Comment

Recently I picked up a copy of Adobe Lightroom to use for color correcting and adjusting my photographs. I played around with a few older photos, one of them being the Google Android Bots Couple from a series of Google Android Bots I posted back in October of 2011.

Santa Barbara Sunrise

Santa Barbara Sunrise

Posted by: on Feb 15, 2012 | 2 Comments

On the morning of the 2011 Santa Barbara Marathon I had noticed from our hotel room that it was going to be a beautiful sunrise. It had rained in the night and there were clouds breaking away to blue skies as the sun was rising.