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OK, this is it! The last of my Photography favorites for 2025. As I’ve noted before, all of my photography ends up on Flickr, where I really try to organize things into albums for convenience. (I also use Flickr for image hosting on this site, so there’s a lot of stuff there scattered throughout that isn’t mine. These are always noted in the image descriptions.) In terms of photographic gear, all photos are currently taken either on my Lumix FZ1000ii (“Miranda”), or my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (“Ophelia”). Now, the photos…and at the end, my six favorite self-portraitsDown the rabbit hole….

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Here we go! Via Sunday Stealing (and in turn via Roger): 1. Describe your favorite cake. Chocolate cake is always lovely. So is vanilla cake. Cake is generally lovely…but my favorite? Carrot cake, with tons of cream cheese frosting. My favorite carrot cakes have golden raisins in them. And if I’m not sharing the cake with The Wife? Walnuts! (She hates walnuts and pecans. I do not understand this.) 2. Think of the best party you’ve ever attended. Were you a host or a guest? Huh. I don’t think I’ve been to a non-work related party since my college years.Down the rabbit hole….

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Me this past weekend, that’s what! Because it was wonderfully crisp and cool out all weekend, I decided to fully embrace my favorite look, poofy shirts paired with overalls, during both days. And that’s probably a big reason why it was a really good weekend indeed. When you’re at maximum comfort, both in terms of just physical comfort but also just plain looking the way you want to look, it’s hard to have a bad day. And I had two pretty good days: trips to the farmer’s market and our favorite bakery and a different library branch where I checkedDown the rabbit hole….

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I saw, a while back, a content creator I follow on social media wearing this shirt in one of her videos: I saw that shirt and immediately thought, “I want one of those shirts!” Of course, I quickly surmised that I wouldn’t be able to get that shirt, exactly. For one thing, it’s a woman’s shirt. Is that necessarily a deal-breaker for me? You know, maybe not. I’ve always wondered why it is that women-wearing-stuff-made-for-men was a thing while the other direction is generally not. But the other problem with that isn’t so much the potential weirdness, perceived or real,Down the rabbit hole….

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…when eating popcorn while wearing overalls. Sometimes after an afternoon or evening at the cinema I’ve had to shake myself out. It’s not a great look, folks. (Now, you’d think I’d wise up and choose one of my many pairs that have bib pockets that actually close up, but who thinks about details like that?) Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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I don’t knowabout a wheelbarrow but things also depend on a redcableknit sweater old and wornand soft like the blue-and-whitestriped overallspaired with it (Apologies to William Carlos Williams) There used to be a store in the malls, back in the 1990s, called Britches Great Outdoors. I didn’t shop there often, which I kind of regret because the two things I own from that store, I like a great deal. One is a pair of overalls that is among my favorite pairs of overalls ever, and I periodically look on eBay to see if any are hitting the market (no diceDown the rabbit hole….

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“Inspo” is a word I see online a lot. Obviously it’s a short form of “inspiration”, but it seems to me to imply a more informal kind of inspiration: it’s something that provokes an enthusiastic response, and possibly a desire for emulation. The other day Pinterest served up this photo for me, and…well, for me, that’s straight-up inspo of the highest order. This is almost precisely the kind of vibe I find myself striving for these days: a soft and cool poofy shirt, worn under a pair of softly broken-in bib overalls, and a fun hat. (Maybe I’m not wearing thisDown the rabbit hole….

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They call this fabric “duck”. I don’t know why, but they do. Duck is a canvas fabric made out of cotton, and the way it’s made it’s a lot tougher than, say, denim. And it can be a lot tougher. Apparently duck fabric has a grading system, with the lowest number indicating the heaviest and thickest duck cotton out there; that’s what you’d make sales for a yacht out of. At the upper end of the number scale is the lighter duck, for “light clothing”. Somewhere in the middle falls the duck used to make tough workwear like your Carhartt jacketsDown the rabbit hole….