Doug's Project 365

You know that when you see this on Rte 16 in Newton…

… that traffic inbound on the Pike has got to be horrendous.

Here Parker is playing with a cat toy driven by Rachel, showing his normal quotient of grace & cat-like poise.

Photo note: the color’s a little funny here (even on the big camera) because I pushed all the way to ISO 6400 to get a fast enough shutter to stop the action.

Once again, the view from my office’s big conference room is compelling, especially in the early morning light.

Lis and I went for a walk down by the river with the Murphy/Elzweig household today.  What a beautiful day for a walk.  All the rain yesterday prompted these mushrooms to do their thing:

I made two batches of biscotti today.  I take these to work to have at breakfast — they help keep me out of Dunkin’ Donuts. 

Marc & Michaela (and Calvin, not shown) are in from Chicago, staying with us for a week while they visit with area friends & relatives.

The view from my office at work as the sun went down. 

I thought this was a great name for a mobile pet-grooming business.

Once again, the view from the big conference room at work is pretty spectacular.

We had an insulation contractor come today and button up a few areas of our house that needed it.  My picture today was going to be of that process … insulation-blowing tubes running all over the place, guys carrying bats of insulation, etc. 

But they also managed to knock into the pipe that feeds water into our house and cause it to spring a leak!  Totally not their fault — it had been “temporarily” repaired previously and was ready to go at any minute.  Fortunately the town came out and was able to do another temporary fix (for free!).  This was really more excitement than I really needed today.

At some point — could be next year, could be 10 years from now — we will need to have the front lawn ripped up and the whole pipe replaced.  But for now I say — thanks Newton Public Works!