On Saturday, I took some time to smell the flowers… and take their pictures. We have a couple of different types of lilies in our yard, plus some phlox and creeping purple bell flower (which might be a weed, depending on how you look at … Read More →
Category Archives: Photos
Flashback to France…
Almost 12 years ago, I took a little trip to France. It was my graduation gift to myself, after completing my degree in French (crazy, huh?). I spent a little over five weeks there, about two weeks in Paris, about a week and a half … Read More →
Picnic at Giggly Hills
As part of our recovery from CON, Eli and I took a little bicycle picnic to the Giggly Hills area by the river yesterday. We brought cookies from Fireroast Mountain, and sat about for what felt like hours (but was probably not). We danced around … Read More →
Out and About at CONvergence 2010
This year’s CONvergence was jam packed for the Effinger-Weintraubs. My darling wife gave a great run-down of just how very much we did during our weekend. It was great fun, crazy busy, and rather epic all at once. We saw so many people and had … Read More →
The Twins…
So on Memorial weekend, we took that trip up north and visited with my extended family for my cousin’s high school graduation. It was a great time, as I mentioned in an earlier post, although we spent far more time with the rest of the … Read More →
More fire…
We took a wonderful trip to visit family in Tower, MN Memorial Day weekend. It was my youngest cousin’s high school graduation (she was born just before I turned 16), so we went up for her open house. With the age difference and all, we … Read More →
Free Friday!
I’m back with another Free Friday wallpaper! This week’s desktop wallpaper is a photo taken right in my backyard. The focus is unexpected and the subject might not be readily apparent. So I’ll leave that as a little mystery. You’ll figure it out quickly enough … Read More →
Lilacs
We have a few lilacs in the backyard. One of them bloomed really early thanks to our unseasonably warm weather this spring. I thought the others just weren’t going to bloom this year at all. But on Saturday, I went out back to take some … Read More →
Fire
Here is a selection of fire photographs I took last year. I’m looking forward to building fires throughout the spring and summer this year and will probably do so with camera in tow. This recent spate of cold rainy weather has made me think back … Read More →
Announcing Giggly, a very special Free Friday!
I’d like to announce a very special Free Friday offering here at Leora the Sane: my very first photography book! Giggly is a collection of photographs taken in the Giggly Hills area near our home in South Minneapolis. I created this book as part of … Read More →