Changed the lighting, changed the background. I think they work much better this way.

Last week I was given some orchids by a friend. By some freak accident I haven’t managed to kill them yet…it can only be a matter of time!
Anyway, there was a spell of beautiful sunshine today and I was feeling too sick to go out and take photos. So I put the orchids [...]

Kletzsch Park, just north of Milwaukee. I visit here several times whenever I’m in Milwaukee…I love the walk down by the Milwaukee River. The colours were just about hitting their peak and it was a beautiful sunny day. It was like being trapped inside a kaleidoscope.

And I think I’m pretty much done [...]

Some more pictures from last month. These are from Ham Lake, 40 minutes north of Minneapolis, and from Minnehaha Falls, near the Minneapolis/St Paul airport.

I missed Neil Gaiman at the Mall of America when I was in Minnesota last month. But he was in Glasgow today, so I thought I’d go and say hello and buy the copy of Anansi Boys that I’d been meaning to get.
In his web log and in interviews he seems like a sweet [...]

Finally got around to opening the big pile of mail that came this morning. One letter was my royalty statement from Addison Wesley. It seems that the Procmail Companion sold 46 copies in the first half of this year. Nearly 2 a week. Worldwide! So I guess that nearly everyone [...]

Not so many leafy colours. These were taken at Klode Park in Whitefish Bay on Lake Michigan. I do have more autumnal pictures to post, but I was kinda overloading on yellows and oranges and reds. So here are some blues and browns.

Butler Lake in the Kettle Morain Glacier Park north of Milwaukee. Raccoons, woodpeckers, wild grapes, kames, eskers and lots of trees.

I went to Minnesota and Wisconsin for a couple of weeks and caught the peak of the colour change whilst I was in Milwaukee. Sigh … probably anyone who lives there will think (correctly) that the pictures don’t really capture it whilst anyone who’s not been there in the Autumn will think (incorrectly) that [...]

Got back from a couple of weeks in the USA. Had a really happy time there. The autumn colours peaked for me whilst I was in Milwaukee and we went out hiking in the parks a lot. I thought the autumn colours here were nice, but looking at them now they’re all [...]