Breaktime! This is my work mug, bought from a little pottery shop near Starved Rock State Park IL – I think in a town called Dixon. Cute place, making a good recovery from a tornado a few years ago. Mai brane needz dis in teh mourningz Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Dis mai brane on kafeen By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Aug ’08, 10.38am CDT PST Breaktime! This is my work mug, bought from a little pottery shop near Starved Rock State Park IL – I think in a town called Dixon. Cute place, making a good…
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Here’s the story: The two pieces of slate, and the large rounded glacial pebbles set in crushed limestone around it, are the salvaged pieces of the altar at Holy Innocents Hoffman Estates, my former Episcopal mission parish. When we closed the church at the end of December, 2006, there were a few people who mourned the loss as if a family member died. Many of them left after trying to remain with the rest of us; they just couldn’t continue in the new place. One of the things that was discussed in the run-up to the closure and merger with…
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This is a picture I never had a chance to upload to Flickr from my phone. I’ve got a lot of unused content waiting for its big moment. Teh kitteh blags, too.
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My husband David took this picture of the ginormous bowl of steaming hot mussels we had before lunch yesterday. The broth was to die for – rich, savory, and totally worth sopping up with the hot herb bread. The waitress taught us this trick, bless her. The mussels were delicious and so was the lunch, and at this little shoreline restaurant we could watch the tide creep slowly in. It was fascinating to watch. It was in Cape Neddick, I think, and it was just a little place along an inlet well inland from the ocean. Via: Flickr Title: Lunch!…
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It’s hard to tell here, but the Episcopal church in Boothbay Harbor is brand new, and made in a very clean and updated “shingle” style on the outside. On the inside it’s a clean, fresh, open plan space with a sanctuary that has a high wooden ceiling supported by big, nautical-looking timbers along the sides. The people were really open and welcoming, too. I had a number of great conversations with people and did my best to wave the big alto flag. They didn’t have a choir, but I had introduced myself to the organized, Eleanor, who became my buddy…
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Hee hee! I collect pictures of funny bumper stickers – this one was actually stuck on a rear passenger door. Love the sentiment. Via: Flickr Title: Save the ta-tas! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 10 May ’08, 5.28pm CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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View from the deck near our room at the Harborage Inn. Free WiFI, but no breakfast included. Still, it’s a very comfortable room with really, really nice decor, beautiful bedding in the Laura Ashley manner, and some rather coffee and tea making gadgets. All it really needs is a microwave and a private lanai – the deck is more like a shared third-floor porch that gives access to the rooms. Eventually, they’ll have a big Jacuzzi right by the water, but it’s not quite ready for use yet. A lot of places aren’t even open this far ahead of Memorial…
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This was taken from within the sanctum; I’d never been in a ladies’ rooms stall with saloon-style swing doors before. The “katie-bar-the-door” closure was a bit awkward, but served well enough. Our lunch at this place, the Shoreline Restaurant and Lobster Pound in Ogunquit, turned out to be really good. It was an odd, funky place, with strange acoustics where you could hear the conversations in the bar clearly, even though it was around the corner and in a different wing o the building. We listened to some guy with a strong Boston accent (think “Good Will Hunting”) tell jokes…
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Father Paul pulled out a very beautiful old Pete Seeger Custom banjo and sang a few lines of “Plastic Jesus” today in church; he’d have had a sing-along going if he’d thought to print out the lyrics, and as it was a lot of people at the early service knew the song and helped him remember the middle section. I told him about a terrific interview my husband David and I heard on Bob Edwards Weekend, which airs on Sundays on WBEZ. I’m tracking down all the related links I can for it to send to Fr. Paul by email.…
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I got really annoyed last night as WordPress wasn’t behaving; it would not insert an image using the fancy schmancy image uploader. So I had David upgrade Image Manager, which is working again (but still has the annoying behavior it’s always had where the window has to be resized by hand). And then today, there’s a new version of WordPress out, 2.5.1. Among security fixes, it also supposedly fixes the problem with the image uploader, and also adds to or upgrades the visual editor. So it’s time to test this with a few images from my cameraphone. And blather. First…