Ursula LeGuin has passed away

I was saddened to hear that another one of the iconic authors of my younger days passed away this last week. I’m not sure which of her works I read first, but her breadth of material and depth of content made her work stand out. She tackled difficult subjects in engaging forms provoking growth in her readers while they enjoyed her tales.

She was equally comfortable writing fantasy, science fiction and main stream prose.

I’m currently re-reading some of her shorter science fiction works in memory of her passing. Sad to see another amazing voice passed from this world…

Holidays are over…

The holidays are over and we’re into the cold and dark part of the year.

I got less technical stuff done over the week off than I had hoped but I think I worked through a few issues that needed to be dealt with. Expecting to move out on a number of fronts with the new year.

I’m going to try to post more regularly here in the coming year and improve my web presence going forward.

Continue reading Holidays are over…

Thinking of splitting my blog from my photography and art content…

I’m finding that this blog gets rather mixed up. I’ve got my career blog for technical things and that works pretty well. I grabbed pandamallet a year or so ago as a place to put more artistic endeavors but so far have left it fallow.

At this point I think I’m going to transition photography and art-ish things over to pandamallet and use this blog as a pure blog.

I’d really like to get to the point where I’m posting something daily on one of the three sites. There’s enough going on to keep something percolating and I think the momentum would be helpful.

Stay tuned and as I get pandamallet set up I’ll post here and also make sure that the site landing page for ninecrows has a pointer over there. I really need to make up some business cards that have the site information on them sometime soon…

Not quite so old family photos…

The ‘mom stalking Roger Moore’ album…with a few other things…

This album contains many shots from a summer when a film starring Roger Moore was being shot in the York area. My mother spent much of her time that summer injecting herself into the process and lurking around the locations and places where the cast and crew were staying.

This does also have some of the early photos from around the time I met Lorna and some good shots of members of the family.

Almost done working through the available albums now. One smaller one and some very old post cards left…

Thoughts and Considerations…