Doug's Project 365

There is a mail chute in the old 11-story building my office moved to. Despite there being a post office in the building, I doubt dropping a piece of mail in here would do anything useful.

In preparation for our upcoming trip to Iceland, I bought a camera lens that’s wider-angle than any I’ve owned before. I am not used to shooting with a lens like this, so today I went out for some practice.

The shot of this building that I like the best is 24mm, which is previously as wide as I could go (except for my fisheye lens). Below is the new widest, 14mm, from the same spot.

 

Kat has this adorable holiday decoration, hand-crafted by a friend of hers.

Lis took me to see the Squirrel Nut Zippers up in Beverly.

This pic was taken earlier in the show than hers, when the musicians were all still playing the same instrument they came on stage with.

I took advantage of ducks being available in my market today, and bought one to cut up for the freezer. The proceeds include a whole pint of this liquid gold.

There’s more than one cultural reference that can get stuck in your head when you’re preparing fava beans.

I looked out the kitchen window just in time to see a hawk land on our fence. It stuck around for long enough to get a few pictures. We’re pretty sure it’s a Cooper’s hawk. It wasn’t until reviewing the photos that I realized in one, it was looking right at me.

We went to Honk Fest in Davis Square today for the first time since 2019. It’s a good time, and we’ll definitely go again.

Two icons of a bygone era, both victims of corporate America. The Custom House is now a Marriott, and Durgin-Park was run into the ground and closed in 2019 by corporate ownership that represented only 12 of the 190 years it had been open.

We visited the Museum of Science on this rainy Thursday, where we saw a Boston Dynamics Spot dog-like robot doing its thing.