The old version of labco was an index pointing
to several directories almost all of which contained
pictures. When my service provider,
STARTLOGIC
decided to migrate to a new
virtual hosting approach, all my old data was lost.
This is also explained in
UPDATE, which was the first item on the previous
page.
Up until this time I have been very satisfied with the
services of this provider. I needed to get the sight
back up quickly to post data related to my work, and
staying with
STARTLOGIC
was the most efficient thing to do, plus I have more
much needed disk space than I had before. There is
still some hope that they will find my old labco
and other data and copy this new WEB space.
In any case,
I will now start inventing a new labco. This is going to be a slow
gradual process. The old data was accumulated over a period of
around 6 years. The first new posting now exist, March 28,
2007.
Here it is
Sat Jan 30 12:15:17 PST 2010, and my "inventing a new labco" is
surly going slow. I have a lot of pictures to organize, fix
and get posted. I expect they go back to before Christmas
2009.
The pictures are not annotated. I will add some context and
hopefully make up for the lack of specific individual picture
documentation.
This time included a January trip to Florida, where
Jane took part
in the
Orlando 2007 IDEX Doll Show,
and then we visited Jane's Mother in
Bowling Green, Florida
The
rest of this time period is Winter 2007 in the Detroit area, where
I go to work, Jane works at home sculpting dolls, we enjoy Abby our
grand daughter etc. I carry my digital camera most of the time.
Here is a
double picture showing both Abby and Jake
as they came home
from the hospital. Of course, the Abby picture is two years old.
These pictures are camera screen shots from the Local Fox News live streaming
video. The quality is very poor, but the nature of the situation comes
across. How long will some people be without water?
As I went into Starbucks this morning, I noticed a headline saying 3600
homes without water.
I am assuming it was referring to the water main break. So far
our water has stayed on. Before I headed for Starbucks, I was lucky enough
to get
pictures of the actual repair work on the water main. The break is
on the surface drive on the south side of the Jeffiers Fwy in from of the
UPS offices between Middlebelt Road and Merriman. One of the workers said
they had been there all night. There were no freeway problems today. The
Detroit Water and Sewage Department workers got the site cleaned up fast.
In this morning's
Detroit Free Press
it said traffic was flowing
again by 1845 hours yesterday. A you can see the water main is large,
as it would have to be to create the flooding conditions it did
yesterday.
In the pictures of Jake laying on the yellow
blanket, he is watching a small mobile like toy that I am
spinning around. In the last set of picture of Abby,
she is preparing to and watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Any time she watches her TVDs, as she calls them, she likes to "read"
the insert, which is the purple paper she is looking through.
There are two dolls in this group. The one close up is a new
doll
Jane has just finished. The other one is one of the mass
produced copies of a Jane original. It happened to be near by,
where Jake was, and I put it beside him for the picture. I think
some time ago Abby was playing with it, which explains why
the diaper is on the outside.
At the time these pictures were taken,
Jake is just a little over 2 months old and
Abby is two years and two months old.
The first thumbnail, in the upper left corner of the index,
is a quicktime movie,
see_abby_run_pc210056.mov,
which may not play when the thumbnail is clicked in the index,
but you can play by left clicking on this URL or
download by right clicking right clicking this URL.
The first picture is a sample of the day which is rainy, windy and cold.
The next three pictures are of Abby playing with plastic eating utensils.
The last of her three is Abby marking her completing picking them all up
off the floor. The remaining 8 are all of Jake. For the first time there
are more Jake pictures than Abby pictures. It was a good Thanksgiving
day celebration.
These pictures are focused entirely on Abby and Jake. Adults were forgotten. The
same thing happened with Thanksgiving?
The first picture, upper left, is taken from our kitchen window looking into
our back yard The next two pictures are looking north out of our upstairs
bathroom window when the snow was falling. The next 6 were all taken on
my way to work on a day when
the clouds and sun light were spectacular. The last three are from a trip
to Ford Hospital, which is on 15 Mile Road in Bloomfield Hills.
In the first picture Abby is probably telling me not to take her picture.
In the next pictures she is squirming. By the 4th picture she is starting
to get interested in her TVD that is playing Alice in Wonderland. Finally,
she has locked onto the movie.
Unfortunately, I deleted the first batch of pictures, which would have had the
cake eating etc., but I did get the second part of the celebration, opening gifts
and milling around. You will see some pictures of Abby hiding things that belong
to here new doll house. I believe she was afraid the other kids were going to take them.
It could have been a rather stressful time for her.
There is also a picture of Dan in the center of his friends who have known each
other since high school. The last image is Abby's kitchen.
None of the pictures in this have had much editing. I attempted red-eye
correction with Pisca, but it doesn't always work, and when it does work, the
result is not real good. I have also included other pictures I had taken with
out much culling. Sometime there are up to 3 pictures in a row that are very
similar.
The bright red color in one of the cricket's big leg very likely comes from
the decompolsition/putrefactionl in that leg. That bright red thrust in
the shiney black of the cricket's body
makes the scene much more striking than it would be otherwise. Had there been
no bright red, I might not have noticed or investigated what was happening.
She was obviously bored with the whole thing,
and her activities with the little wooden precussion instruments was completely
her doing. There are too many shakey camera movements, which I am responsible
for, but getting some editing done would delay the posting too long. The mp4
file is 147,020k bytes. A better viewing expirence may be had with a download
before you play the clip with, for example, QuickTime. I used version 7.6.5
of QuickTime Player. I downloaded the clip on another system and also played
it with that version of RealPlayer.
posted at this URL along with three older pictures that were still in the camera.
The last three
thumbs in the index point to MP4 movie clips. When you click on one of
these last three thumbs you will go to a page with
big white letters at the top, see the small print below the big white letters and
the solid line that runs across the page.
In the first movie, Jake is doing his excited dance because he sees
Tinkerbell on the TV. He was preparing
to watch a movie.
20100911_after_abbys_first_soccor_game_visit_web
Recent updates from here down:
There is one MP4 clip in the above index. Click MP4 Clip of mostly Abby and a little Jake to go directly to the movie. If you have problems, download the clip, 135,659,520 bytes, and play it locally.
There are three MP4 movie clips in this set of pictures:
This video is of another preschool group graduating. I am not sure why it is here. If you are only interested in Abby, skip this one.
This video is Abby's kindergarten graduation. It is followed by a slide presentation about the preschool in general. I had a hard time holding the camera still, which makes this video hard to watch at times.
This video is taken at the reception in the cafeteria. It shows Abby with her best friend Autumn after Abby has had her cake with lots of sugar.
If you are having trouble playing the vidoes, see what is recomended with the Jake on hotwheels video below. You will see these same thumbnails at the end of the
main index
for all the Abby graduation still pictures and MP4 video clips. I have had
trouble getting them to play properly from there. Doubling clicking on the ones in the list above has worked OK for me.
As you may have already noticed there are a lot of pictures of the inside and area outside of the new Compuware building in downtown Detroit. You see there the water fall that Jake mentions all the time. His Dad is picking him up from preschool to take him to the
waterfall. In the picture it is hard to see any water running over the glass, but it is there and water is also dripping down from the very top of the building and in some cases running off some of the bright colored object in the mobile.
The first set of picures is of dads dancing with there daughters. This was the hit of the show. As for Abby's time on stage, I only got this
one picture.
After the fathers dancing and the one picture of Abby in her class performance, there is a large number of Abby pictures taken at the end of the program when everyone was on stage. It is a sea of red.
Christmas 2011 Movie Clips Updated Thu Jan 12 19:51:19 PST 2012
The collecton, beginning top row left, is 3 pictures of Dan and Abby
when Dan, on his way to work, dropped off Abby for an all day
visit with Grandma and Papa. Next, is
a picture of my sawing station, where I try to get some cardio exercise,
followed by an image of the demon in the brush pile. Next picture is of a
rabbit that was hiding in the grass next to the driveway as I backed the
the car out. Then come the pictures
documenting Abby and Jake going to vacation Bible school.
The entering the church image is followed by 4
pictures of Abby's art work created on the Friday, June 15, 2012 all day
visit. The last
three images show eye augmentation that Jane and I did.
The other objects in the pictures
are, on the left, Cinderella's glass slipper, and on the right, a candy
bowl with candy. The
collection ends with images taken during the time we assembled and setup
the new swing set. Checking out Abby's new fish tank and Dan's remodeled
tank was some how worked in during the swing set assembling.
The tent is one of the
presents Jane and I got Dan for Christmas.
The first 4 pictures were taken at our house before we headed to the party. The last 6 thumbnails reference MP4 movie clips.
Abby, Jake, Melissa and Dan leaving on vacation
The guy with the tattoos
is sitting on a bench close to the door where the travelers were
entering the terminal. I found the
tattoos not very appealing, and that prompted the picture. The broken Fire Bird
sign and the and the Garden City art banner caught my attention, as I headed
up Middlebelt road toward home. Finally, the
last picture is one I just pointed the camera toward the car window and took the
picture of this new store in our area that was advertised on TV last night.
I was surprised to see it, since I had just heard about it last night.
You can sell your cloths there and buy
other clothes that other people have sold. I guess it is a scheme to cut in
on yard sales and Goodwill. Is there a growing movement toward different
ways to exchange things in the world?
Style Trader
is the name of the store. Here is information on the
Style Trader in Livonia. Click the picture for a larger view.
I likeed the sunlight on the breakfast table, which prompted the picture. Since it is here it is made with a
flatout bread, almond butter, spray beutter, splenda, lots of cinnamon, three berries from COSTCO, and toped with colby sharp cheder this time.
Jane discovered the flatout bread, and I have used it for two or three years
now. It is only 100 calories per flatout, with lots of fiber and low carbs.
One more thing: The fish tank is one thing Dan got Abby for Christmas. There were more painted windows, which I forgot to photograph.
There is one short movie of Abby making a potholder that Jane got her
started on. This was done around the time we took the tree down, hence the
ornaments. On a short trip to the stores, I also captured some geese
resting in the snow.
The URL above points to a 27,820,032 byte MP4 clip. Here is more information on
the Queen Alexandra's birdwing
The first thumbnail in the upper left is an image of an alley that I see when I am
leaving the
Rio Cleaners.
The open door is to a bar called the
White Rhino Sports Bar.
The next picture to the right is a tree I found in front of a parking
space somewhere. The third image is of Jane and Abby discussing Mother's Day cards.
Abby said: "I picked out all the cards. Dad just signed them." Then the 4th thumbnail
points to an MP4 clip, which is a 102,891,520 byte file named
dscf2959.mp4. Next are a series of pictures of Abby and Jake. Abby is
playing with
Polly Pocket, which are tiny
little dolls with tiny rubber like stretchy outfits. Finally in this M-day series, the
Bass family is taking their leave. The next images are of a
Canada Goose family. They were
over near Costco, and I passed them on my way out of the parking lot. (When I first
came to the Detroit area 40 plus years ago, you would not see this kind of scene
around any where in the metro area. Now these geese are all over the place throughout
the year. They do not seem to migrate any more.)
Now back to the pictures. The
moo cluck moo is a new eating place that
just opened across Telegraph Road from
Joe randazzo's produce maket
that I go to regularly. Based on the
new eatery's WEB page, some individuals got the idea and opened the place. I hope they
make it. Finally the lilacs. I stopped to pick some for Jane. The smell was
marvelous.
There are 5 mostly short MP4 movies.
The last three thumbnails are for the pictures taken when Jane and I were over at Abby and Jake's home with Abby and Jake while Dan and Melissa were at the big
Covisint IPO party.
At this year's Thanksgiving dinner, I did not take a lot of pictures or make any movie clips. Thus, I have added to this collection other pictures mostly taken in November. In some of the images comments, I have added, in a red font, live links to related pictures and information. Just click the live red link to got there.
A hwak eating a pigeon happens to be the first set of images. Based on
the pictures on the Net this hawk seems to be a
Cooper's Hawk.. My pictures were taken through a screen and a dirty kitchen window. They are presented
here without any editing.
It may have come from Bell Creek, which has Bell Creek running through it.
Bell Creek is connected to the many
small creeks
that drain the area.
It must have jumped our fence to get in, but after leaving the back gate open it left.
No one saw it leave or arrive.
The best way to view these movies might be to start a download, and then do something
else while it is downloading. When it is finished play the *.MOV on your system.
Jane did the minor editing and she uses the one that she took the date out of as her desktop background.
After their trick-or-treat, Abby and Jake along with Dan and Melissa came over to get more treats and show off their
costumes. Jake was a fireman and Abby was a zombie cheerleader. The balloons above the treat table were balloons with an led light,
which made them a little top heavy or else we did not get enough helium in them. The last two thumbs point to movies. The first
is to show what a crappy day Halloween was, and the second is the clan leaving. When they left it was snowing.
(Not done intentionally taken that way, there are several pictures, almost all of Abby, that involve Abby eating.
I wish I had noticed that as I took the pictures. There is one very badly focused picture of Abby not eating,
that I tried to make a little better, and I included a second copy, but that the effort was not successful.)
For at least the past two years, we have seen a developing problem with some of our arborvitae
in the southwest corner of our yard. In the Spring, like now Sat Apr 11 2015, the yard
is very wet in spots. Click here to see the problems plants and the big puddle. The arborvitae with
the rusty brown part is the latest tree to exhibit the problem. Also note that the second plant
form the left has not been affected.
Click here to see a thumbnail index
and more detail pictures of the trees.
Click here to seethe healthy trees. Based on the 69 inch hight of the steplader, in the annotated picture, the tallest tree is about 17 feet.
Introducing Your Cat to a New Dog
Large version of images indexed and
accessed with the line above
When using the first URL above to access the thumbnail index of the images, you will see a name like this dscf2903.jpg following the
title at the top of the image. Keeping in mind you can use hour back button to come baack here to this paragraph, click
dscf2903.jpg and view the image.
If you them use the second URL,
just above this paragraph, and go to the plain text name list index, and for example, find the same name dscf2903.jpg and click
on it in that list of names, you will get a very large version of the smaller image you saw using the thumbnail index.
Finally, the last pictures related to Christmas 2016 are posted. At least it is not the end of January 2017 yet. These pictures span a time frame from Thanksgiving Day to the end of the year, 2016. Once again, here is a direct link to a movie clip of the flying Minion.
As I usually do, I have taken a large number of Spring pictures.
I have not selected a subset to post. I especially liked
the roses by our house and some yellow irises along with another
interesting flower in front of the barber shop on Five Mile
and Middlebelt Road. I have included both the
original size and the smaller size.
Moving left to right in the thumbnail index, the first picture is
a winter picture showing the highest
part of the tree reaching toward the sky. The next 7 pictures are of the large
trunk some with the gradual gathering morning sunlight, which Jane often
watched from the kitchen window.
This is followed by a spring
picture showing how it filled our tree line followed by a picture
of the vacancy it left open to the sky. The rest of the pictures
are of the collapse.
The inevitable collapse of our big willow tree that has been with us for more than 30 years
When we first moved here, this willow tree was much larger than it was at the
time of its collapse. We had a rope around a very high over arching limb with
an old tire
attached that we swung and played on a lot. After some years
this part of the tree fell, and was the beginning of a large brush pile which
is now gone. Finally, the big trunk split open and the rest of the tree
collapsed.
Its fall did not hurt a sibling cutting or a new locus tree on the opposits
side of the trunk.
The tree seems to have fallen down around the trunk, and thus it did not
do any serious damage to other trees or our fence. Neither we nor our neighbor
heard anything in the night. There was very little wind. The collapse was
from
within the tree itself, and it may have happened rather slowly.
It is obviously very rotten inside. I have seen
beautiful fungi growing on the tree over the years,
chicken of the woods for example, which was probably another indicator of
the poor condition of the tree.
It will be many years until the two cuttings I planted get near the size of
their parent.
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These 6 windows, 3 in the little Florida room and 3 upstairs were
the ones most in need of replacement. The old windows in the
Florida/Sun room had a part of the window frame always blocked some of the
view into the backyard. Now, it is possible to have an much
unobstruceted view while standing or sitting
without ducking under or looking over part of the old frame. The
upstairs window were replacements of the old ordinary double humg
wooden 1952 windows. All 6 wooden windows frames were rotten.
Home Depot is where we purchased the windows and the installation. We were
very satified with their work. They came round 0900 hours and were finished
around 1230 hours.
The car and the fungas are there because I had to move the car for the
Home Depot trucks and the fungas because it is one of my favorate things
to take pictures of.
Update Mon Apr 29 08:30:22 EST 2019, the above talks about new windows,
but I failed to hook up the files back in 2018.
I just noticd that and fixed it now
along with adding some 2019 pictures taken around Easter. There
are several pictures with water. We have lots of
standing water in the yeard since the winter. I
do not know how long before it drys enough for Davy Tree to get in here with a
crane and other trucks to cut down
the two big maples close to the house, and clean
up the part that fell last Fall. Davy could not get here in the
Fall when it was dry, the precipitation started, and it is sill going.
I do not expect to be able to mow all of the
lawn for some time.
These pictures are their original size which makes zooming in the best it can be.
You can save the image as with a right click on the image in the browser, and then
once is is downloaded use a local viewer to change its size.
Click on the image to go back to the thumbnail index.
Below are indexes into work in process and to experiments which might be useful some day.
Brazil, Cachoeira Paulista, Viggianno
Main Un-Formatted
Compliments of Google's street level maps:
pics_20080820_color_light_expirment.dir
HFH Twelve Mile and Haggerty location
Dragging ash log out of the water
The first two sets of pictures are of our (Paul, Janie, and Sarah Jean, old
home place just outside of St. Francisville. I took these pictures at least 20 years
ago, Thu Dec 23 15:33:49 EST 1999. These pictures were on older versions of this WEB
site for several years. Many of you have seen these before several years ago. They
were lost in my digital jungles until just recently when I found the old Kodac images
on one of my old CDs. I was very glad to find them again, and here they are in two
forms. The JPG version is created from the PPM images, and then exported
using Google Picaso to an HTML page with thumbnails for an index. I did some editing
with Picaso to make the darker areas lighter. You can blow up the raw JPEG images,
but they get grainy fairly quickly.
The second version has a text based HTML index which I think I created in the 20 years
ago time frame. I have spell-checked it some and made a few edits for clarification. The
images are GIF images. I cannot recall why they are in a GIF format, or the PPM format
which I mentioned above. The original negatives were processed by Kodac some 20 plus
years ago.
The third set of pictures cover the last few days here in Livonia, MI where Jane and I
have lived for 37 years. The old John Deer lawn tractor is also 20 years old and the
mower deck gave us some problems with the idler arm, but with creative welding from
our good neighbor
and his crew at TOP NOTCH UPHOLSTERY & TRIM, LLC
Jane and I finally got the old John Deer mowing again, and I got the very high grass
cut. We had so much rain earlier, I could not completely mow the back yard until now.
Scroll up to see pictures that have not been culled or otherwise edited.
Update
Pictures
NEW Thu Dec 25 21:27:52 PST 2008:
*.MOV file
New Sun Jun 28 10:04:07 PDT 2009
These pictures are large and depending on your browser may require
some panning to view the whole image.
New Sun Jun 28 10:04:07 PDT 2009
At this time, the only item here is a large, 567,869,440 bytes, MP4 movie,
which is of Abby and Jake eating and watching Dora on TV. I was hoping for
a little dance from Jake, which he sometimes does to some of the Doara
music, but Abby did a sort of silly dance. She was dressed
up silly since it was silly dress up day at chield care. Click on the movie
filename URL,
abby_jake_visit_DSCF1439_20090903.mp4
to download or view it.
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File size = 56,426,496 bytes
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Dora backpack toy
and doing his so-called-dance when he hears something he really likes:
DSCF2797.MP4 size 35328 kB
I successfully played this with
RealPLayer. Since
then it also played in Quicktime on Jane's new HP computer.
Abby is a member of the Shy Lions group. Here is what a
shy lion looks like:
A Shy Lion
The other pictures are of other groups from the
Bunny Sanford School of Dance
Both Abby and Jake got bicycles for their birthday from their Mom
and Dad. In
this picture you can see part of both bycycles and what
inspired the look of each.
20100830_jake_abby_new_doll_cloths_posion_ivy_rock_with_marks
Everyone left not long ago. As the name says this was after Abby's first soccer
game where she had a great time, lots of fun. However, the only picture I included
showing her uniform is the one where she is on Butterscotch. I culled these very
agressively and removed out of focus pictures except where it contributed to the
the meaning of the image, play for example.
Sun May 29 18:37:09 PDT 2011,
Wed Jun 1 10:28:56 PDT 2011,
Tue Jun 14 10:02:12 PDT 2011,
Tue Jun 14 21:12:55 PDT 2011,
Fri Jun 17 10:08:30 PDT 2011 and
Sat Jul 16 15:52:55 PDT 2011
hdscf6215.mp4
hdscf6215.mp4
hdscf6215.mp4
Everything said about movie clips above applies here.
Jane interperated the directions and gave Dan and me instructions.
I took the plant picture as I was walking into Korger, and I found the yellow animal on some old soaker hose I had taken out of the wood shed that I have now cleaned and reorganized.
This duck was a present from Aunt Jane and Uncle Don that stayed here at
our house and has since become a favorate of ours.
Some pointers to data on chicken of the woods: Laetiporus and Mushroom Expert
Latest post as of
Sun Jan 6 14:26:41 PST 2013
Abby in talking zoo
at her school
March 27, 2013
Abby's 8th Year Birthday Party
Christmas 2013
The movie is 743,735,296 bytes. If you download it may take awhile.
In these images there is a movie, some annotation on some stills and
live URL leading to additional information.
Post For 2014 Start Here
My birthday, number 72, party still pictures and video clips
Very large pictures.
Four birthday movies, some very large.`
The two pictures and one movie
I only did real Christmas shopping at a brick and mortar store, Costco, when we were looking for a 32 inch TV for Amy and Monroe. I took pictures to show Jane, and she did additional research. That is why these are included as part of our Christmas experience. I also believe JAMH24 might like to see a little of Costco. Perhaps some day I will do a set of pictures that focuses on Costco only. However we ended up getting the TV from Amazon anyway.
When Dan and Jake came by yesterday evening, I took the opportunity to get Jake pictures since he seemed to be a little shorted.
The above site is a detailed description of how to introduce a cat to a new dog/puppy. It is
a site from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
ASPCA.
There are comments on the pictures toward the left after two dashes.
Go to the top of this document.
Abby's brightly colored second birthday present from her Aunt Jane and Uncle Don.
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Letter to Verla's friend
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Coolidge Hwy and Twelve Mile Rd in Berkley
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