This year we invaded the Yuen house. Sandy made a burrata appetizer and lumpia. I made baguettes and a butternut squash cheesecake. As usual I didn’t take enough photos.
Thanks to Sandy for the additional photos.
Thanksgiving 2023
Sun/Moon set
Shot a sunset and a moonset a couple of days apart.
Oakland Dinner
Seems like years since we have all been together.
Thanks to Jim for the photos.
American Century Plant
While on a morning walk I snapped a quick photo of this American Century Plant that must have been 20 feet tall. The intention was to come back during sunset. Well sunset wasn’t very good.
EOS-M discontinued }:(
I try not to write about hardware as I don’t feel it makes much of a difference these days. Many years ago I stopped buying the latest and greatest cameras. Recently I’ve settled in on the smaller APC-C ones. For fast moving subjects definitely the Sony A6600, but for everything else my trusty Canon EOS-M6 mk II. This 33MP camera came out in 2019 and the extra pixels comes in handy when I have to crop. Sadly today Canon finally discontinued the EOS-M line.
Collecting dust is my 2017 Canon G1X mk III and the 2019 Sony RX100 VII, along with it’s full frame brother the 2015 RX1RII.
Blue Angels 2023
Every year I get lazier than the previous year. I thought it would better to go as late as possible to avoid burning in the sun. I only had about 20 seconds to prepare for this shot on Saturday.
Sunday I brought a different camera to get right under the action, but forgot to bring the viewfinder. Sometimes I really suck at this photography thing.
Sunrise Stroll
The sunrise looked promising on my morning walk so I ran out.
Smoking Brisket Island
Tom offered up a brisket that he didn’t have time to cook. I agreed thinking it was gonna be a flat. To my surprise it was a whole brisket, 11 lbs of beef! It was too big for my dutch oven so I cut it in half thinking I was going to do one in the oven and one on the grill. I couldn’t find the ingredients for the pomegranate braised version so I did both on the grill. I was naive and started it at 1:00 PM, which means I was smoking well into the night. The flat didn’t turn out as tender as I wanted, but the point side so excellent. Not bad for a 1st time.
We had brisket, rice & brussel sprouts for dinner. Thanks Tom.
Mothra
I was alerted to a very large Humming Bird Moth during happy hour, so I snapped a quick photo with my phone. I then brought it home and was able to properly photograph it, but in my old age I got lazy and didn’t do a focus stack.
9/11 Alan
The pandemic sucked on so many levels so I won’t enumerate on all of that. There were a few good things to come of that though. I’ve met some great neighbors and one of them is Alan. He’s been responsible for my beer education while filling me up with Costco food. A truly generous man. We’ve been celebrated Alan’s birthday for the past 2 days. His actual birthday is 9/11. Happy Birthday my friend.
