Trip to the art museum.

I went downtown today, to the art museum. Cost of parking: $1. Cost of admission: $10.

I spent about $9 too much, and it wasn't on the parking, which was cheap. The exhibit they had looked fascinating. Alas, everything about it that was fascinating? Was in the ads. Bah. But I had a good time walking around downtown and taking pictures. Oh well. About every other time I go to the museum (which is rarely), I regret it, so it's not a huge surprise.

But hey, I had fun with a camera. The parking was definitely worth it. ;)

Okay, that was fun. But it could've waited 5 minutes longer.

Decided to go out again and take pictures, knowing I had only one set of batteries (the one in the camera), and that they'd been used a fair bit earlier in the day. I didn't really know how many pictures I'd get, before they said "enough is enough", but I figured I'd try. I parked at the Tigard public library and I got some shots of this great ("great" as in atmospheric, not "great" as in I'd want to live there!) house near there, and rows of schoolbusses, and other sorts of stuff. On the way back to the car, I stopped to photograph a couple of pine cones on the ground, and batteries gave their last "urk" and ditched the shot. So I only missed one of the shots I wanted, but now the recharger will be busy at least through tomorrow, maybe Monday....

Argh! If I want pictures tomorrow, I'll have just the one set recharging to work from. That's not bad - as long as they really, fully recharge. Because Scott and I are going to meet the realtor. We're not going to see houses tomorrow, however, she's in an area of Portland we don't often go to. So I'm thinking of taking the camera anyway, to get shots if anything catches my eye. Still, I'm sure I'll see her office again before this is all finished (well, maybe not, but probably). So...we'll see. I should have a set of batteries, and that should be plenty. I hope.

Oh, pretty.

I adored this image, which is linked off the bottom of this page.

Thanks for the initial link, dad. Pretty! And yes, you can definitely tell the more industrialized/richer nations....

( And a gratuitous quiz. )

LiveJournal topic survey.

Survey, borrowed from someone else. Mind you, I don't answer a couple of the questions, but I included them for completeness in case anyone borrowed it from me and wanted 'em. This one's a LiveJournal survey, about your interaction with LJ.

( I still talk too much. )