http://blog.markwill.com In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:52:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en He set his tiny feet on the first rock and wobbled against the water rushing over his knees. I stepped onto the downstream side of the same rock and braced against the cold and the current. Standing firm but paralyzed, he turned his head and looked up at ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/19/river-walkers-part-one [photopress:DSC_1001_sm_blog.jpg,full,pp_image] Opportunity. She knocks, yet too many don't bother looking through the peephole, and spontaneity isn't even given a chance. And to think, they could have walked in the footsteps of dinosaurs. At 8:30 on Saturday morning, Benjamin and I had spent about an hour and a half building with Wedgits, eating ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/17/spontaneous-cretaceous (Click to enlarge) I ran and grabbed my camera and took a few shots through the boy's bedroom windows. My subject moved a few houses down the road. "Hey, Benjamin, I need to go outside for a better look. You want to come with me?" "Yes." "You need to put ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/12/waxwing-not-x-wing The photos I post on this site are un-cropped, unless otherwise noted. All three of the images today are versions of the same picture I shot through my son's bedroom window. I'm a firm believer in saving time by composing the shot on the front end rather than later, and ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/11/healthy-crop-of-birds-pic-of-the-week If I show you what's in my couch, will you show me what's in yours? The contents of a couch can tell a lot about a home's residents. The oldest piece in our living room, our couch has supported us through nine years in four houses. A black mesh ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/08/couch-tippin I've always been fascinated by the art of making cotton candy. In fact, at a fair or carnival, or at a sporting event, I'll stop to watch for at least a few moments as the vendors spin sugar into pure delight on a stick. I imagine the size of the ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/04/spun-sweetness-pic-of-the-week To see other Wordless Wednesday participants, please go here: http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/ http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/03/wordless-wednesday-forty-four Considering yesterday's gold medal hockey match featured the USA vs. Canada, I found this timely. Until three weeks ago, I had never been to a hockey game. In fact, besides back in 1980 when the USA defeated the Soviets, I had never watched one at all. Always anxious for an excuse ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/03/01/im-still-not-sure-what-icing-is Alone in my hotel room on a rainy Monday night, I set my Canon PowerShot to manual and snapped a few pictures of my view, which for some reason garbled the Bat Signal. The following Thursday my co-worker and I saw our flights canceled due to the huge snowstorm ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/02/25/obligatory-houston-we-have-a-problem-joke I started blogging when my small family and I moved to a place a minimum 6-hour drive from where we had ever lived. Rather than sending long missives and online photo album links in e-mail, I could just publish the text and images (and more) out here. It was the ... http://blog.markwill.com/2010/02/18/sporadic-sabbaticals