Over at the OpenSalon version of my last post, there was some reasonable incredulity about my guesstimates of my bicycling weight. To wit:

One of my bikes weighs a little more than I do; the other weighs a little less. On both, I’m expending very little energy to move a combined

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Peabody River

Now see these:

• Guard of the Vatican Museums from Enrique Vidal
• Pyramids to Temples: Egypt to Cambodia from and sometimes i just sits
• Triple from d e s o l a t e | m e t r o p o l i s
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I’ve been commuting to work by bicycle for about three months now: not a very long time (my wife has been doing it for about twelve years), but long enough that I’ve thought quite a bit about what I gain and lose by using two wheels instead of four for my… Read full post »

Peabody River

Now see these:

• nov 8 from myphotosquare
• Ancient Woodland from absolutely nothing
• Weather Report: 1920 from Shorpy

Peabody River

Now see these:

• Reading a book from Psampaz Photography
• #82 from lgbravo.com
• Eyes on the UN from friskyPics
• PCC in need of TLC 2 from Found in Focus
• bicicleta from dioptrias

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Peabody River

Now see these:

• Tower Underbelly from The World in 35mm
• Seafolly from neverhappen.com
• Sopot from FotoStamina
• Vent a Zumaia from BEGIRADA
• Vassoura II from Fotos PPF

Peabody River

Now see these:

• dead essentials from Your Waitress
• Petite pluie et hauts talons place des Abbesses from ParisCool
• Platja de Zumaia from BEGIRADA
• Back from holiday from ??????
• A Bad Reputation from Wolfman-K

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Spam--the junk message type, not the tasty luncheon meat from Hormel (pan fried and served on rice, it really can't be beat...)--is a significant annoyance on all the "Web 2.0" services, but nowhere more so than on Twitter./

Peabody River

Now see these:

• pause for beauty from hanna birke
• Roadside from Feldauge
• Life Belt from milou
• from the view of yokohama landmark tower from 1965 monochrone
• an ascetic from BOXMAN fotologue

Photo by David KohlmeyerDespite our sudden balmy turn of weather, winter is surely on its way. I can tell by the activities in Rice Park.

As I rounded the corner of Market and Kellogg the other morning, I saw the big truck and boom arm putting the big spruce into place… Read full post »

Peabody River, New Hampshire

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• Parure from Elaine
• late night bus diversion in traffic on bloomsbury way from rion.nu
• Fluff from Anita’s photoblog
• 104 from Félix Ménard

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Peabody River

Now see these:

• Swingers: 1924 from Shorpy
• City Shelter from MUTE
• Missing petal from the white silence
• Dressed for Work – Chapultepec, Mexico City from Ephemeral Visions
• Piquant …. from Didier DE ZAN’s Photoblog

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We looked out from indoors. Nose to glass, we looked, fogging, we looked, through the damp of our exhalations, downstairs, upstairs, piggyback–we saw scenes through see-through curtains, a shadow boxing with a shade, something bubbled, tubside–every which we could find to look, we

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Peabody River, near Dolly Copp, New Hampshire

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• Crazy critters from danishsuburb.dk
• Déformation from Petits papiers
• Cloudwatcher from photoful

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Peabody River, near Dolly Copp, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Penobscot Narrows Bridges from Andy Smith-Petersen
• Chestnut from Aperture First
• Samedi from nikon bri

The Berlin Wall’s shadow stretched over much of my childhood in the 1970s and early 1980s. I grew up on Army posts in the United States and West Germany, and the tensions between East and West–particularly in the early 1980s–seemed always present. Especially when we lived in Germany… Read full post »

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Onomatopoeia from graciform
• White Peacock at Two Dogs Farm from A Walk Through Durham Township
• Kaiser WIlhelm Memorial Church from Rossen’s Photo Gallery
• crescent moon from Human Nature

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Peabody River

Now see these:

• The Apprentice: 1917 from Shorpy
• Passage from Elaine
• Las Ramblas from Hmmm

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• Lone tree at dawn, Malham #2 from Tristan Campbell
• the beginning of the end from dreams of light
• St-Quirin-Platz from Olli in Munich

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• radcliffe camera @ night from apparently nothing
• late afternoon from myphotosquare
• Untitled from Craig Persel

Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• device from bighappyfunhouse
• Driftwood (2009) from Andy Smith-Petersen
• I-Tent from Aperture First

… they seem to have no desire to undertake the kind of work which makes any claim to leave a lasting legacy. They have the inner freedom to exercise their intelligence in the way that taxi drivers will practise their navigational skills: they will go wherever their client directs them to.

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Peabody River, near Dolly Copp park, New Hampshire

Now see these:

• paris 2009 from dying light
• out the bus window from puja parakh
• dia de los muertos from Eletrolite

I was live-Tweeting the trick-or-treat activity at my house in the Minneapolis Longfellow neighborhood (I’m such a nerd!), and have some quick stats from the evening.

From about 6:00 PM to about 8:00 PM, I counted 71 trick-or-treaters. There was quite a diversity of costumes–I counted 38… Read full post »

Tonight, all manner of ghosties and ghasties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night will be roaming the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul, seeking to relieve you of your candy. Which seems like a good excuse to trot out a list of spooky places around the… Read full post »