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This month's Self-Portrait Challenge is "With Someone". So, here we are on the Great Wall in China. We're looking at my well-worn sneakers and a very important guy for that whole life-journey thing (who isn't too crazy about heights) . . .
I'm turning out to have a thing for selfportraits involving my feet: 
. If you haven't seen our other China photos: check'em out.
Peanut, a very little parrot in central Michigan, has been feeling poorly. Bug doesn't know how much significance this little Greenrump Parrotlet has - he was among the many factors in the decision to bring Bug home instead of continuing my search for a good parakeet breeder.
The internet forum equivalent of well wishes is something called 
, at least in parrot circles. That hardly seems adequate in Peanut's case. This bird is too important for little gif images; I want to send actual medicine!
Here's hoping Peanut is up and flying again soon.
I'm still amazed that his person got got the above photograph. Bug goes by too fast to be photographed.
Editors Note, 9/6/06: Peanut didn't make it. I don't know what this means for the universe but Pamela, Peanut's person, could use your poofs now.
I think it might be time to rebrand the blog. I've struggled with the Why blog? question off and on - burning desire to post cute pictures? share my witty remarks? express outrage? habit?
When I first started this, I had just adopted Little Miss Cuteness (a.k.a. Bug, left) and was an avid reader of the Finster F-log. In the beginning, most of the entries were about Bug. However, there's a major flaw in a blog about Bug - she has a pretty simple life and doesn't say much that's quotable (there are peeps of happiness, peeps of contentedness, peeps of eating euphoria, peeps of irritation, peeps of "yer not skritching the right spot", peeps of "hey, where'd you go?", and peeps of "let me out", there are also some grunts that have similar meanings).
The F-log has bunches of finches and the Master of the Universe (a.k.a. Peanut). I, on the other hand, have political and issue content, the occasional home renovation, and miscellaneous life observations . . and, apparently, and identity crisis. So, out of 192 entries, only 58 of them are about Bug (I didn't count, the script counts entries by category).
So, if Bug Blog doesn't really reflect the blog, what does? Discuss.
I figure this is close enough to fit the theme.
Mac with our nephew, Zachary.
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Unblemished white is so unusual in my life. In the U.S. and Japan, white is the traditional bridal color symbolizing purity. In China and India, white is the color of mourning, death, and ghosts. White is the absence of pigment or the presence of the entire light spectrum. In the classic westerns, the hero wears the white hat. |
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| White curtains, white blossoms, white court, but not white things and never white clothing. | ||
| I do spend a lot of time thinking about white balance. Why White Monday? |
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