Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Thanksgiving

Two Fridays ago, I went to an Avalanche game


with John and two Canadian coworkers, Cora and Trevor:


The Avs won, thanks to some fine goaltending by Craig Anderson (see save above).

Brett came to visit me over Thanksgiving. I decided to try to make a shoo fly pie for Thanksgiving dinner. I had a recipe and all the ingredients:


It looked good going into the oven.


But half of it boiled over while it was cooking!


It was still runny when it came out of the oven, as well.

So I tried again, this time with less water.


But it still boiled out of control.


The first pie tasted OK, but it was very runny. The second was more solid, but looked worse. Either I need to make high altitude adjustments to the recipe, or my oven temperature is wrong.

Friday, I showed Brett around Boulder, starting with Flagstaff Mountain.


We then went downtown to Pearl Street, then walked back to the car along the Boulder Creek Path.


Saturday we went to Rocky Mountain National Park. First, we checked out some views.


Then we went to Bear Lake for a little hiking. This is Hallett Peak, with Bear Lake in the foreground.


I tried to recreate a picture from my youth with this picture.


I won't know if I did until I find the original!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Clouds and other stuff

Winter arrived last week with a couple of small snowstorms. It was good timing for the opening of Louisville's outdoor skating rink:


The last few days have gotten into the 60s, though, so I'm not sure how the rink is doing now.

I was able to clean up some of my leaves out back before they got wet:



Huh, judging by how much work I put into moving leaves, I thought the difference would be more striking...

Yesterday, Rebecca called down the hall to tell me about the amazing sunset. My office faces east, so I went outside to investigate. The view to the southeast:


Then I looked to the north:


I went around the corner to see more:


Then I went to the west side of the building:


I'm glad I went outside!

Today, we had some high, icy clouds which made nice prisms:

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Recap of the last two weeks

In case you were wondering, the fire fizzled overnight, and was mostly contained by the next day.

The night before the fire, I took this sunset picture (with my new favorite tweaks, a gamma correction of 0.7 and a saturation of 70 to make it look more like it did through my eyes):


The day before Halloween, I spent a lot of time in downtown Louisville -- first with Sara and her family for coffee and shopping at the Hatch New Mexico chile store, featuring a chile roaster out front, which smelled great:


Then I bumped into Tara and Jason at another coffee shop, then I saw Josh finish the Monster Dash:


For Halloween, I went out to dinner with Jason, Roya, and Harald.


We walked around Pearl Street afterward to check out the costumes.


Last week, we came in third place in trivia:


For awhile, we were over the 6-person player limit, so John played by himself. He came in last place.


Last Tuesday morning after voting, I saw this picture of Louisville in the city hall:


A lot of the same features are still around today, such as Miner's Field:


The moon on my way into work that morning:


My camera is terrible at taking picture of the moon at night, but this makes a nice companion piece to the one above: