Photos from our visa trip to Boston

 

Last week we went to Boston for our Visa interviews for our French Visa applications. This was more like a "turning in loads of documents appointment" than it was an actual interview. But it went well as all the papers did get turned in, apparently. And our handprints were taken. So... that's hopeful.

Despite being sick with a fairly vigorous cold all weekend, the trip was a great deal of fun. I love traveling with my wife. Boston is surprisingly (to me) terrific. The North End is astonishingly like Italy. We also went to Providence, Rhode Island and Newport, Rhode Island and I learned that I have reallly missed out on the Northeast for all these years. I was shocked to learn that Saint Minneapolis is, alas, a bit like watered down versions of these cities, slightly inferior copies, at least in architecture and in the rich, historical feel of the cities. Coming from the west I was easily impressed by the midwest, but perhaps unduly so! I have been in Boston before, but not in nearly as interesting parts as this time, and I've been to New York a lot, which is so its own wonderful thing, but fundementally bespoke in all the world. So my eyes were opened on this brief journey!

Anyway, enough of that. I mainly meant to present the trip in cartoons today. And so here they are:

Plane:

Boston's North End:

Boston's South Station:

Boston's Legal Seafoods:

Boston's Chinatown Gate:

Newport, Rhode Island:

Plane:

A proper Sunday cartoon panel!

 

Saturday library funny: Just to be safe

 

My distributions of posts got a little tangled up this weekend! But now everything is corrected and the ceiling panel is restored in case ice agents drop by.

My quota

 

Early in a busy morning at the front desk of my library, a library patron was looking for a book that the computers said was on hold for her. It had come in recently for her and she couldn't find it.

"I will track this book down for you if it's the last thing I do!" I declared with an early morning passion for library work.

It was on the cart behind me. I checked it out to her.

"Thank you." The patron said. "You all are always so helpful at this library."

"I'm glad it worked out because that's the last thing I will do."

The patron shrugged. What was that to them.

They got theirs.

The key is in using the correct camera

 

For a long time I have been experimenting with the alteration of my photographs through the use of increasingly sophisticated AI's. These are a lot of fun. But sometimes my original photographs are better than the altered photographs.

This is why I have started experimenting with using specialty cameras. 

You have seen dozens of photographs like these ones lately:

These pictures were taken with a camera I got a month or two ago, my Muppet Camera:

But this camera only whetted my appetite for more of these experimental cameras! This morning, after a considerable investment, much fretting, and a great deal of impatient waiting, I received in the early delivery my newest camera. It's the latest design! You can surely imagine how super excited I was to try it out. 

Here I am this morning with my new camera, all freshly put together, and starting on my first outing with it:

 Luckily I didn't start work today until almost noon! So I had some morning time to try my camera out. I went into my local neighborhoods to take pictures of flowers and streams and anything I could find as I worked my way over to the River, and then I continued along the paths there.  I only had the one rather pricey roll of Seuss Film that came with the camera, so I tried to be careful with it. But even so, I shot the whole roll in my one walk! 

I was pretty excited to see how they all turned out.

I wasn't disappointed.