March 20, 2004
Spring!
It's the first day of Spring!
Just a few weeks ago, it looked like this:
Posted by denise at 08:17 PM
April 02, 2004
More spring!
Posted by denise at 12:09 AM
September 04, 2004
New addition
I recently (as of yesterday) purchased a digital camera, a Gateway, DC-T50. TigerDirect had them for a pretty decent price, so I went ahead and bought one even though the reviews were fair-to-middlin'. One reason it was so cheap was probably because Gateway is getting out of the digital camera business and going back ot its customized-PC roots. Anyway, now this means I can photoblog.
So far, it's working out ok. The new camera is settling in nicely. The older cameras don't seem to be jealous at all. Here's the first picture I took with it:
Woo, I know. Exciting.
It does take somewhat better pictures, however:
Posted by denise at 07:44 PM
September 05, 2004
Sign of the times
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Posted by denise at 08:48 PM
Dive grafitti
Grafitti on the side of Big Dick's Bar. (I'm not sure I supposed to even write that, but I did, so deal...)
Posted by denise at 08:59 PM
Drive-by photoblogging
One good thing about this camera is that it's small enough so that I can hold it in one hand and take pictures as I drive around town.
The Masonic Home:
A shot of our local university:
And a lovely old home downtown:
Posted by denise at 09:45 PM
September 07, 2004
Ameriquest Field
One of probably many photos of the Ballpark that I'm going to post since I drive by it every day.
Posted by denise at 07:26 PM
Train Graffitti #1
Posted by denise at 07:44 PM
September 08, 2004
Abandoned
Tiled roof of the abandoned Sears at Six Flags Mall.
Posted by denise at 07:45 PM
Urban wildlife
Playing with the 4X digital zoom on the camera. It's hard to keep the camera still for zooms this close. I really should use the tripod.
Posted by denise at 07:54 PM
September 09, 2004
I'm the King of the World!
I'm trying to take a picture of the train graffitti and this guy drives by on the train.
Ok, so here's a picture of the graffitti.
Posted by denise at 08:13 PM ~ Comments (3)
Urban wildlife #2
Playing with the zoom again and the exposure settings trying to cut that noon-time glare.
Posted by denise at 08:19 PM
September 14, 2004
White light
Posted by denise at 08:59 PM
Lamp
Posted by denise at 09:03 PM
Clouds
Posted by denise at 10:56 PM
September 17, 2004
They're coming to take me away! Ho! Ho!
My new camera can also make low-res digital video. Click on the picture to see my footage of the attack geese at Highpoint Church. I was in my car and had to drive away because I thought they were going to jump in the window.
Posted by denise at 10:37 PM
September 18, 2004
Bus No. 19
Last January, a suicide bomber boarded a city bus in Jerusalem and exploded a bomb killing 11 people. An organization called Christians for Israel acquired that bombed out bus and took it on tour across the US. Their intention was to make Americans understand how bad things are in Israel. This particular showing of the bus was held in conjuction with a prophecy conference led by prophecy teacher and charlatan, Irvin Baxter. I'm not sure this "bus tour" really informs Americans or just appeals to our morbid sense of curiosity.
I only went to see the bus and did not attend the conference. I did go in to take a look at the swag table, or I should say "tables" because there were many of them piled high with all kinds of prophecy garbage.
Posted by denise at 08:49 PM
September 24, 2004
I Feel the Need...
...the need for speed!
Posted by denise at 08:31 PM
September 25, 2004
Train Graffitti #2
Posted by denise at 03:33 PM
Book haul
Visited the Library Book Sale today and came home with a pretty good haul.
Posted by denise at 04:48 PM
September 27, 2004
Hibiscus
Posted by denise at 07:15 PM
September 30, 2004
Lunch!
Posted by denise at 08:14 PM
Dessert!
Posted by denise at 08:16 PM
Pampas Grass
Posted by denise at 08:51 PM
October 05, 2004
Killer Traffic
Posted by denise at 09:01 PM
October 06, 2004
More killer traffic
Posted by denise at 08:40 PM
October 07, 2004
Clouds
Posted by denise at 09:45 PM
October 08, 2004
Barely hidden
Posted by denise at 08:54 PM
October 09, 2004
Working at the carwash...yeah!
Posted by denise at 07:56 PM
October 11, 2004
Ameriquest Field #2
Posted by denise at 08:11 PM
Ameriquest Field #3
Ameriquest Field in artsy-fartsy Black & White:
And in artsier-fartsier Sepia:
Posted by denise at 08:13 PM
Roller Coaster
Posted by denise at 09:13 PM
Behind Ninfa's
Posted by denise at 09:15 PM
October 13, 2004
Office Space
Posted by denise at 09:23 PM
October 14, 2004
The Silly Season
Posted by denise at 09:56 PM
Gone Fishin'
Posted by denise at 09:58 PM
Need for Speed #2
Posted by denise at 10:11 PM
October 16, 2004
Downtown Fort Worth
Posted by denise at 08:42 PM
October 17, 2004
Sunday Morning Praise
Posted by denise at 02:49 PM
October 18, 2004
Pumpkins
Posted by denise at 08:13 PM
October 22, 2004
More pumpkins
Posted by denise at 10:43 PM
Apples
Whole Foods always has the best food displays.
Posted by denise at 10:52 PM
October 24, 2004
Balloon
Saw this on the way to church this morning.
Posted by denise at 02:14 PM
October 31, 2004
Sunday Morning Colors
Posted by denise at 03:53 PM
November 02, 2004
Night Lights
I've taken about 100 of this kind of photo. (I'm just posting a representative sample.) The fun of taking night shots like this is that you never know how they'll come out. And the colors are pretty, darnit!
Posted by denise at 07:08 PM
November 04, 2004
Lone Star Door
Posted by denise at 07:07 PM
November 06, 2004
The Long and Winding Road
Well, long, anyway...
Posted by denise at 06:18 PM
November 07, 2004
Steeple
Posted by denise at 08:23 PM
November 09, 2004
Ameriquest Field #4
Posted by denise at 08:31 PM
Sunsets
Posted by denise at 08:58 PM
December 11, 2004
Christmas at the Meyerson
My mom and I went to the Christmas celebration at the Meyerson today. It's the Christmas program Channel 5 televises every year. I can't believe I made it over there. There's always that section right before you get to Dallas where I-35 E splits up into about 50 different lanes. Anyway, the theme of the program was "Joy to the World" and featured Christmas carols from all over the world. The only problem I had was the sound quality. We were sitting on the orchestra level about in the middle of the floor, but it wasn't exactly the "sweet spot" as far as sound was concerned. There were a couple of spoken-word numbers and the speaking parts seemed a little "buried." Other than that it was a great program.
There was a hand bell choir with some really huge bells.
Part of the program was a Scots piper playing the Robert Burns' tune "Flow Gently Sweet Afton" which is also the melody for "Away in a Manger." So in that same spirit, the conductor, David R. Davidson, conducted a few numbers dressed in a kilt.
Posted by denise at 10:58 PM
December 15, 2004
Okay to go
These people are just about ready to go any where.
Posted by denise at 10:45 PM
April 19, 2005
Anniversary
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Here are a few photos I took when I visited the OKC last year. It's a worthy memorial.
Posted by denise at 06:30 PM
June 22, 2005
Machine
Took my mom to the eye doctor Friday. This machine was in the office. No idea what it does.
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June 23, 2005
Killer
I have no idea what this is about, but I saw it on the gas station pump and thought it was funny.
I know Andre the Giant has a posse and so does Kit Fisto.
Posted by denise at 12:12 AM ~ Comments (2)
June 28, 2005
Goodbye, Forum 303
Forum 303 Mall/Festival Marketplace is closing for good. It's been a long slow slide to the bottom. Faulty A/C was the final nail in the coffin. It was too expensive to fix so the owners just closed the place up and called it a day.
Though the Forum was never as swanky as Six Flags Mall (a few miles to the north), it was still a great place to shop, eat, and see movies. It had a small amphitheater for fashion shows and the like. I had my first piano recital there (actually a Bluebirds talent show.) My mom was a Bluebird troop leader and I had just started piano lessons. I learned Bach's Minuet in G and my mom thought it would be a good idea if I recited a small paragraph about Bach's life and work. I have no idea why my mom wanted me to be so informative, but I wasn't too excited about having to speak in front of a crowd. So at the rehearsal, I got up on stage, said my speech, played my song and sat down, knowing with dread that I'd have to go through it all one more time the next night. But on show night a miracle occured. Right before my turn, the microphone mal-functioned, so I got to skip my little speech and go directly to piano playing. I don't remember really any more about that night except that sweet relief I felt in not having to tell the world about Bach.
The Forum also had my favorite bookstore, Century Books, and the arcade where I spent way too much money one summer and the movie theater where I stood in the longest lines ever to watch "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi."
The Forum was under a curse from the beginning. The main highway passing it was under construction for years and when they finally finished it, the town had developed toward to west rather than east around the mall. In fact the area around the Forum has never really been developed. The ultimate decline began when they built the Parks Mall in the early 90s and all business was sucked westward. The owners tried turning the Forum into a indoor flea market then. But that business model didn't really work either. Too many tenants owed too much back rent.
The old Montgomery Wards space was rented out as a haunted house last October. I took this picture a couple of weeks ago and they still hadn't cleared away the Halloween stuff. A little self-fulfilling prophecy here, perhaps.
Who knows what will become of it. It's too expensive to fix and too expensive to tear down. I hope some big-moneyed developer will take up the slack and revitalize it. It's got decades of life left in it. I suggest turning it into a movie studio or a skateboard park.
If they turn it into condos I call dibs on the old Century Bookstore space!
Posted by denise at 11:59 PM ~ Comments (8)
January 10, 2006
The Buzzards of Grand Prairie
Buzzards right in the middle of town. Go figure.
And yeah, that's the middle of town in Grand Prairie.
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January 21, 2006
December Sunset
Posted by denise at 08:48 AM
January 22, 2006
Park and Fry is more like it
This is what I call a bad day.
What came first, though? The car fire that spread to the grass or the grass fire that spread to the stranded car?
I think this was a Mercedes, so, of course, not my car.
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car fire bad day Mercedes Benz
Posted by denise at 09:15 PM
February 10, 2006
Little Birds All in a Row
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Posted by denise at 10:09 PM
Minyard Sunset
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Posted by denise at 10:24 PM
March 22, 2006
Yum!
This is one of the buildings that succumbed to the new Cowboys Stadium construction. That might be a good thing.
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Posted by denise at 10:33 PM
March 25, 2006
Lame
It's March and I still haven't taken down the Christmas lights. See how artfully I draped them across the chimney? It took me minutes, nay!, seconds to accomplish that feat!
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Posted by denise at 11:12 PM
May 08, 2006
The Aesthetic Sensibilites of the Electric Company
I think the electric company overdid the pruning around the transformers in our neighborhood.
"The Electric Company. Doing our part to lower your property values!"
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Posted by denise at 11:21 PM
June 21, 2006
flickr
I've added some photos to my flickr site. So check it out!
I'm going to start up an old project I had of taking at least one picture everyday and combining that with another thing I wanted to do which is taking pictures of all the churches in town (or wherever). Consider this a work in progress since I may be replacing some of these pictures as I take better ones.
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Posted by denise at 12:07 AM ~ Comments (2)
July 12, 2006
Great photos
I found a really wonderful photoblog via Fluggart: A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania. The photographer, Kathleen Connally, also has some moving photos of the recent Northeast floods.
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Posted by denise at 10:59 PM ~ Comments (3)
August 28, 2006
Halloween Already?
It's the end of August and already Albertson's has Halloween stuff up already.
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