Check whether Lewis and Clark is open :  (it’s not)

Stay Warm: X

Build a 6ft-tall-igloo out of ice and snow in the back garden : 

Click for larger (you have to be a contact of mine on Flickr though)

The final video with the roof and everything will be along soon, quite possibly in Advent Calendar form…

is getting erased after Christmas day. The last third of it is anyway…

So… don’t forget to check out day 22…

Yesterday... before the dog (not atticus) went through the ice.

All this could be yours to own.

Imagine if every day* you checked your email and saw you’d received an email from a friend with a lovely picture from round Portland way and a brief description of the photo.

Imagine how much easier it would be dealing with the other things clogging up your inbox if you’d first seen a picture of Oregon at its finest.

Imagine if in between the sea of Facebook alerts you had something that didn’t require you to sign into anything to be rewarded with a message.

Imagine that if you ever got sick of receiving said daily slice of the Pacific Northwest you could cancel at any time.

Imagine no longer…

Sign up for email updates from my photoblog:

It’s what’s known as a win-win situation… you get emailed a photo. I get a boost to my ego and a reason to keep on publishing the blog.

If boosting my ego isn’t enough motivation, think of the schipperke.

more subscribers = more photos = more walks and exercise for Atticus.

Real quotes from current subscribers:

“I like your writing and you take some nice pics too!”
“I like getting your daily photo in my inbox”
“it’s lovely to see your pics. they are fabulous.”

But that’s not all.

The next 5 subscribers win a 4×6 signed print of any photo from the vaults.

(present subscribers can have one too, hellz yeah, send me a link to the one you want, A, T, A & D)

If you’re all about the RSS, that’ll be: http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/feed the offer stands for feed readers too.

This’ll be the last time I nag you for a while.

* most days…

Here endeth the plug.

1ft of snow, with an icy crust. Video soon…

We’re at about 4 inches of the white stuff now. Absolutely gorgeous out it is, but not good for cameras…

Mr. A takes on allcomers.

Why, Lord Atticus, only you would be so bold. There’ll be a more minimal version in tomorrow’s advent window.

Light Snow

May I direct your attention to the weather box in the left sidebar, it’s presently:

Temperature: -3°C, Conditions: Light Snow, Wind Chill: -10°C

It’s been a strange old week, in the good way of course. Lewis & Clark was open when it snowed, closed when it wasn’t, things were cancelled, meetings postponed and I got out and took a fair few photos. Yesterday it seemed like the ‘inclement weather’ was over and we took a friend to the airport and on the way home decided to drop into the DMV to get our Oregon licenses. 

This involved presenting various bits of paperwork that I didn’t have on me and taking the computerised theory test. It was a touch-screen multiple choice affair and would have been quite challenging were it not for the “Skip this question” option on each question. The theory is that your skipped questions return at the end of the test, however the vast majority didn’t come back at all (we knew this would probably happen thanks to sage advice from Abraham). So I didn’t have to know driving trivia like “What is the maximum speed of vehicles with a ‘Slow Vehicle’ sign on them? 15mph, 20mph, 25mph or 30mph.” Anyroad, I got 93% which is a pass. Same as Dr.Sita.

Another question I should have got right but didn’t was along these lines: You’re driving along and feeling very tired, what should you do?

a) Open the windows and turn the AC on

b) Put on loud music

c) Find a safe area to park the car and take a nap

d) Drink something caffeinated

I reckoned they all sounded good. Only one of them is right.

Another was a question about why there are more accidents in the evening rush hour. a) because of the dark b) people are tired and irritable c) there’s more traffic d) I forget. I got the feeling there was a book we probably should have read beforehand. And it’s amazing how conditioned we are now by Who Wants to be a Millionaire; for nearly every question I was looking for the 50-50 button, or Phone-a-friend.

Strange questions… Anyroad, we’re now the proud owners of temporary Oregon licenses which, when presented in Washington state, for example, mean we don’t have to pay any sales tax. Good times.

I’m considering sledging today. I’m looking round for suitable snow vehicles. I’ve already ruled out Nanny’s scrabble board lazy-susan rotator thing… dustbin lids? Photos as and when. Stay warm, folks.

I thought this picture from JGG’s photostream deserved a wider audience… and also wanted to test posting from Flickr to the blog in Wordpress 2.7. It still doesn’t work right.

Atticus channels his inner huskie (a video experiment, let me know if it works)
The battery in me little camera doesn’t do well at the best of times, but the cold and ‘Cus managed to shut the video down at 45 seconds or so. The bit when it jerks away is when his lead went tight as he tried to maul the sliding car…

I’ve 3 days worth of internet to catch up on cos I’ve either been out with the camera or recovering from being out with the camera.

Photos abound over at Flickr…