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01/17/2012

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City Hall.

You can’t fight it. But you certainly admire it’s majestic beauty.

Can’t you?

The Talker

This guy. He just talks to the pedestal all day.

It makes one wonder… and give thanks for life’s blessings.

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The Red Tree

01/14/2012

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the red tree

The 365 Project continues.

I snapped some photos through the day, and the big things happening today were a fiesta for Fr. Bob, who is the alumni of the year at Holy Cross School, and the Saints game.

This red tree is down the street from a friend’s house where I watched the Saints game. Dunno why it’s red. Didn’t want to ask when they came out to marvel at my taking a picture of it. Didn’t have any other pics to post, even though I tried to make this a bit interesting and artsy. I tried!

I was tempted to use this. It’s a light bulb that reminds me of an old TV show from the 60′s called the Prisoner. There’s a huge white bulb type thing which comes up from the sea, and… that’s about all I remember because I never did like the show. For some reason it also reminds me of Dr. Who.

But, the Red Tree it is for today’s exercise.

Shalom.

Splash, out.

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On the Third Day

01/13/2012

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Sweet Petunia

Photo for the day, for my Project 365, wherein I post a photo a day for a year.

It’s a petunia out in the garden, taken as I was moving plants around for the cold weather blowing in.

Similar to the photo posted yesterday, it was taken the day before I actually posted it on my photo-a-day-photo-shoot-extravanganza.

But I’m guessing that’s OK, and that the project 365 police aren’t going to come after me for being a day behind on this. Because … I’m not really a day behind. I’m early, and have been planning ahead.

Tomorrow on the other hand, will find that I’ve taken zero pictures today, and will have it’s own photo of the day at which point we’ll be all caught up, and everybody can breath a sigh of relief and stop stressing out over this entire issue. (Not that anyone was of course.)

“Around here we’re always on the go. We don’t need caffeine bringing us down!” Name that commercial?

Splash, out.

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Well we can see what happened here.

I took a picture Wednesday night, posted it Thursday on my 365project site, and am just getting around to posting it here tomorrow. That is, today, because yesterday today was tomorrow, but now it’s history. Of course.

grill pic

Color Me Bronze

To caption or not to caption. (Shakespeare didn’t realize how easy he had it.)

Splash, out.

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Masculine Saints

by Fr. KA January 12, 2012 Weblog

This morning I took to looking around the internet for images of masculine saints. It kind of goes with the territory in Priesthood (I’d imagine,) as many images of male saints can kind of stylized, or even efete. That led to some interesting blogs. Prophetic Vision of Saint John of Kronstadt Di Meliora, which has [...]

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Coffee Klatch

by Fr. KA January 11, 2012 365 Project

Today’s photo for the 365 Project is my stupendous capture of a coffee mug. Isn’t beautiful, noble and grand? Yes, I know. Thank you, thank you! Today is actually the first day of the project. The photo I uploaded yesterday wasn’t actually taken yesterday, and the exif data clearly reflects that. There’s no fooling anyone [...]

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365 Project

by Fr. KA January 11, 2012 365 Project

I’m diving into the 365 Project, ready or not. I call it “Progress, not Perfection.” Winter’s been on the mild side and the flowers are loving it. A photograph a day will help develop some sort of skills aside from basic portraiture and snapshots (perhaps.) And it’ll be a fun little slice of priestly life [...]

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On the Third Day

by Fr. KA January 3, 2012 Daily Walk

This. This is the picture which brought me to cancel out my 365project.org account. “What a completely awesome shot this is going to be.” Fizzy mineral water catching the sun, against the dramatically smooth bokeh provided by the 200mm zoom and the mossy backdrop. What a headache. So, when I have a moment I’ll have [...]

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Subjects Matter

by Fr. KA January 2, 2012 Daily Walk

So, I started a 365 Project, which consists of documenting your life with one photo a day. I thought this would be easy. Things started out with this one. See, the A/C was out, and with the cooler north wind starting to blow in, I opened the doors before Mass to help cool the Church [...]

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The Holy Inncocents

by Fr. KA December 28, 2011 Daily Walk

Today, right on the heels of the Nativity of Our Lord, we remember the horrible massacre of children who have come to be known as the Holy Innocents. “When Herod realized that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity [...]

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“Wherever You Are” – the Military Wives Choir

by Fr. KA December 27, 2011 Weblog

My good friend Gary Sinise (right! He has no clue who I am, we’ve never met and more than likely never will, God bless him,) tweeted this link, to this video. It’s awesome.

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Wonderful Clip Art Site

by Fr. KA December 27, 2011 Weblog

Great site here with scans from old books. The page shown here is filled with art, and the site itself has a number of other treasures, worth a leafing through. It’s great if you happen to need a bit of art to add to a post, or if you’re designing a site and need some [...]

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Feast of St. John, Evangelist

by Fr. KA December 27, 2011 Daily Walk

Beautiful readings from St. John’s letters in the readings today. Here, from the USCCB’s site, the Bible section, 1st Letter of John, we have a bit of explanation on the First Letter of St. John the Evangelist: The author sets forth the striking contrasts between light and darkness, Christians and the world, and truth and [...]

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In the Woods – Diving into PHP: Video Series

by Fr. KA December 26, 2011 Weblog

On a separate note… Years ago I learned CSS by reading through a book written by Molly Holzschlag. I learned everything I needed to know, and immediately decided to learn php. I never did, but recently the bug resurfaced, and I cam across the video series Diving into PHP. What, this should take a few [...]

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Merry Christmas! O Magnum Mysterium

by Fr. KA December 25, 2011 Weblog

Latin text O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. Alleluia. English translation O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the new-born Lord, lying in a manger! Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear Christ [...]

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The Feast of St. Ambrose of Milan

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St. Ambrose, a Father of the Church, is certainly an interesting character to study. Take for instance this bio-blurb from the Catholic Encyclopedia over at New Advent. Through the door of his chamber, wide open the livelong day, and crossed unannounced by all, of whatever estate, who had any sort of business with him, we [...]

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Advent and All Things New

by Fr. KA November 27, 2011 Homilies

Ah Advent, the long awaited season of the year when we wait and prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ, liturgically speaking. We don’t speak or sing the Gloria, the Sanctuary is draped in purple, a color of mourning. Well, it’s also a color of royalty, and the violet Advent hues also echo the colors [...]

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A Party with Irma

by Fr. KA November 21, 2011 Thought for the Day

This past weekend one of my oldest friends celebrated the Feast of Christ the King with a great party, featuring New Orlean’s own, Irma Thomas. What a great time it was! (The friend happened to be be turning 50, which was actually the reason for the party.) Enough of that for now! Lot’s of changes [...]

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The Iron Lady

by Fr. KA November 15, 2011 Weblog

Well the long awaited film on Margaret Thatcher’s life is coming due January 6. Baroness Thatcher’s friends are distancing themselves, saying it is a ‘left wing fantasy’. Concessions exist though, that it may help to demonstrate that she was the ‘Nostradamus of her day’, regarding the economic future of Europe. Meryl Streep’s performance is garnering [...]

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The Zoo

by Fr. KA November 13, 2011 photography

It never occurred to me until the other day, after I had taken this picture, that orangutans earned their name by the color of their fur. So, I looked it up over at dictionary dot comand found out that ‘orangutan’ is actually from pidgen or ‘bazaar Malay’ and means ‘forest man’. So there. And with [...]

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On Martin of Tours, and on Wikipedia Being Wrong about Katrina

by Fr. KA November 11, 2011 Weblog

Wikipedia has a lovely article on Martin of Tours. It’s very well documented. This was especially informative: While Martin was still a soldier in the Roman army and deployed in Gaul (modern day France), he experienced the vision that became the most-repeated story about his life. One day as he was approaching the gates of [...]

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A Bit of History

by Fr. KA November 11, 2011 Weblog

OK. I have this bad habit of leaving groups of tabs open in my web browser so that I can come back to them and either read them or make note of them for future reference. Then, I never read them and end up just closing the browser and forgetting about them all completely. Or [...]

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Tocqueville’s Impressions of New Orleans

by Fr. KA November 10, 2011 Weblog

From the Tocqueville Site comes this report, or translation, or Tocqueville’s impression of the city, from January 1 -3, 1832: Impressions of New Orleans Arrival at New Orleans. Forest of ships. Mississippi 300 feet deep. External appearance of the town. Beautiful houses. Huts. Muddy, unpaved streets. Spanish architecture: flat roofs; English; bricks, little doors; French: [...]

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The Gift of Music

by Fr. KA November 10, 2011 Weblog

One of my friends is constantly berating me for not knowing the words to popular R&B and rock tunes. What can I say? Here are some of the ways I spend my listening time… Awesome video of Horowitz playing Rachmaninoff. And a fun (and awesome) video of Martha Argerich playing Prokofiev. She’s so beautiful to [...]

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Buying American For Christmas

by Fr. KA November 8, 2011 Weblog

This is an e-mail going around, with a great idea. Why buy cheaply produced overseas stuff, when we can give American goods and services instead? Great point. Christmas 2011 — Birth of a New Tradition As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of [...]

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Our Fair

by Fr. KA November 3, 2011 photography

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Ansel Adams Redux

by Fr. KA October 31, 2011 photography

I hope you’ll forgive me for posting Ansel Adam’s photographs. But, when you ponder upon the beauty of creation, and then see his photographs of said creation,… well, it does a soul good. No harping about megapixels here. He knew about his camera, his exposures, his natural subjects, lighting. And being a musician he knew [...]

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Ansel Adams – Updated

by Fr. KA October 29, 2011 Weblog

I’ve been investigating a few links on Ansel Adams today. Did you know he was an accomplished musician, and a trained concert pianist in real life? I guess ‘accomplished photographer’ was just his day job. His son had this wonderful excerpt to say: “The great American artist’s darkroom techniques—through dodging and burning—allowed him to see [...]

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40 Days for Life

by Fr. KA October 27, 2011 Weblog

Today our Parish helped pray through the hours of the 40 Days for Life, along with St. Charles Borromeo Parish and Our Lady of Divine Providence Parish. Talk about an amazing day. These kids were sitting here singing contemporary hymns after praying their Rosary. I also met the directors of the Louisiana Right to Life [...]

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