“It’s cold out, but with clear skies and no wind, it’s a great day for a walk. Spotted a Bald Eagle perched by the edge of Potter’s Lake.” — Henry Domke
Category Archives: Family & Friends
Image Playground
Apple has issued updates to the iPhone (18.2) and the MacOS (15.2). It’s going to take me six months to explore all of the new features but the Image Playground app seemed like a good place to start. This video provides a good introduction. The app enables non-artists (like me) to create images. You can just describe an image and then tweak until you get what you saw in your head… or you can upload a photo and let the app use that as a starting point. Watch the video above if you’re curious. Below are some early efforts: Steve, David Brazeal, couple of Golden Retrievers, John Robison and Allen Hammock.
Barb’s new Lexus
After 7 years and 173,000 miles, Barb treated herself to a new Lexus 450 RX Hybrid Plugin. Barb loves to road trip and is probably happiest when behind the wheel going somewhere fun.
Allen Hammock pays a visit
Coffee Zone Munchkins
Wes Fewell’s Club Juana
Some guys will put a big screen TV and a couple of BarcaLoungers in their basement mancave and call it a day. Not Wes Fewell. Wes is an athlete and a hunter. And an artist. He designs beautiful furniture and his skills are on full display in his basement.
He didn’t offer much history of the original Club Juana so I went looking online and found this from 2006 (source unknown)
The Club Juana was a landmark in Casselberry, Florida, for 43 years, first as a nightclub, later as a strip club. It attained national notoriety in 2002, when its owners staged regular productions of “Macbeth in the Buff” to circumvent local lewdness laws. The Club finally closed in June 2006 and was demolished on November 2 to make way for a freeway overpass. Its famous “Club Juana: Parking In Rear” neon sign, however, was spared by the Morse Museum of American Art in nearby Winter Park. The Museum, best known for its Tiffany collection, saw the sign as a worthy example of public art and local history. The Club Juana sign will join other neon signs from vanished Orlando-area businesses in the Museum’s collection. All of them are warehoused, and none are on public display.
My most embarrassing photo
There must be plenty of them but nothing comes to mind. The question popped into my head after seeing photos of J. D. Vance in a blond wig and floral print skirt. A halloween photo from his college days. And former U. S. Congressman George Santos wasn’t camera-shy during his drag queen days.
Our annual Halloween parties were the social event of the year and I showed up dressed as a woman at least two of those parties. Once as a nurse, the other time as a nun.
The nun photo is memorable because Barb and both came as nuns (from different orders it would appear). Neither of us aware of the other’s costume.
Once I saw just how good a man could look in a dress and wig, I gave up on that costume idea.
While searching for my most embarrassing photo, it occurred to me that it wouldn’t be in my collection. It would almost certainly be a photo someone else took and that I didn’t know existed. If you have such a photo, I’d very much like to see it. (My embarrassment bar is pretty hight these days.)
In my youth, people didn’t walk around with a camera in their hand (or pocket). And if it was nighttime you’d need a flash. And then the wait for the film to be developed and on and on. It was just too much trouble. So there just weren’t as many photos. And if you had a good one, sharing it meant a trip to the post office. And what is an “embarrassing photo” in an age when teenagers text each other pictures that can only be described a pornographic?
The photos of Vance are only a problem (if it is a problem) because of his homophobic anti-trans comments on the campaign trail. And I’m not sure George Santos minded at all.
I’ll keep looking for my most embarrassing photo and update this post if I come up with something.
Sad T-Shirts
Came across this photo while cleaning out my office closet. First thought was, “Those are the saddest promotional T-shirts I’ve ever seen.” (I had almost no budget). My second thought was, “Looks like a scene from a remake of Napoleon Dynamite.”
If you’re happy and you know it…
John Robison
My friend John has also reached the age where a little digital enhancement is called for, so I fired up the Prisma app again.
Edited in Prisma app with Thota Vaikuntam
Edited in Prisma app with Dallas
Edited in Prisma app with Daryl Feril
Edited in Prisma app with Mosaic