Tag Archives: nature

Am I a Model Now?

From this photo, it almost looks so! New friend Erin Morgan took these with my phone, a Pixel 7. She staged and posed me, and it really worked out! It makes it look like I’m capable of posing casually for a photoshoot!

Cicadapocalypse Now: 2024

When I was at the Nashville Water Lantern Festival, I also got to experience, for the first time since childhood, the booming burst of cicada emergence! And man, was it loud — you could even hear it in the city, which was startling for me. I’m just north enough now that they actually haven’t shown […]

Photo Friday: Nashville Water Lantern Festival

Lanterns carry our wishes on water. My wish is that Tina is happy and contented over the rainbow bridge. My other wish is that Palestine be free. These are the things occupying my mind foremost these days. What a lovely day it was on Saturday to have experienced this. A great event for the sentimental […]

Photo Friday: Baby Birds

A few weeks ago, I saw two baby birds in my yard in the same day. The first one was in one of the flower pots in the back… Not pictured: I saw the mother fly down to it there and feed it a worm. Sweet! I took this picture from inside my garage, since […]

Photo Friday: Part One

Here’s an idea for regular posts that are just a little easier to stick with than Fanart Fridays or Sketchy Sundays – Photo Fridays! Every couple of weeks on Friday, I’ll post some of my more interesting photos that I’ve taken throughout the course of my daily life. I finally got a camera that’s worth something, so […]

Mixed Nuts Textures #1

My first texture set, originally distributed through the Asterism! 20 textures here, all high-resolution. Download Full Download Mini (These were taken over the span of several years with different cameras, so the quality between each differs slightly. I made sure to select the best for this pack! My personal favorite is “woodcavern”.)

Great Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami

I actually have a lot of articles planned right now, all lying dormant due to a momentary dip in language-studying momentum and real-life happenings. Yet all those things pale in face of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami which has rocked northern Japan. Last Thursday I went to bed at a decent time, for […]

Japanese Nature: Bugs

Mushi! 虫! Bugs! They’re all over the place! And the Japanese variety are just as abundant and cool. I’ve always been a fan of bugs, but sometimes people in Japan have a different level of fandom going on… Popular Mushi Japanese rhinoceros beetle If you’ve got any familiarity about Japan or even just anime, you […]