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Fonfarek Glen County Park / Spiced Sardines in Olive Oil, Nuri (FAFS_03)
(This is the third in a series of field reports and tinned fish reviews, forming a component of Frida and Alex’s Fossil Summer 2026. The first of these is here.) Today we explored a third of the area’s best parks, Fonfarek Glen County Park, which opened to the public in 1991. The park has two major points of interest, a 30′ tall waterfall that can be beautiful (today, it was a mere trickle),…
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Music that’s more fun to play than to listen to
(The night that a clearly intoxicated woman wandered into Kavarna from off the street and sang a blues song with Lil’ Rev. It was fine, until it wasn’t and we had to ask her to leave. This photo doesn’t really have anything to do with the topic, but it deserves to be on the internet.) I think that, in most cases, music is more fun to play than to listen to. There’s a…
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I was a teenage Camper Van Beethoven wannabe & music discovery before the algorithm
One afternoon, during the Summer of 1988, I was at a friend of a friend’s house. We stopped by while wandering around his neighborhood. I was 13 years old. I don’t remember what we were doing that afternoon, talking mostly. Along the front wall of the living room was that most indispensable thing of the 1980s: a television tuned to MTV. And at some point, the following cut through the chatter and all…
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Baird’s Creek / Sardines à la Niçoise, La Bonne Mer (FAFS_02)
(This is the second in a series of field reports and tinned fish reviews, forming a component of Frida and Alex’s Fossil Summer 2026. The first of these is here.) The second expedition of the Frida and Alex Fossil Summer was nearly canceled due to hazardous air quality. However we had a temporary reprieve and the air wasn’t terrible in the morning, so it proceeded; though we chose a location closer to home.…
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Wequiock Falls / Sardines with Preserved Lemon, Fishwife (FAFS_01)
I don’t remember the exact train of thought that led Frida and me to declare this Summer “Frida & Alex Fossil Summer 2026.” Turns out that it was an excellent train of thought. We’re both interested in geology and fossils, and it’s nice to have a reason to get outdoors. (And, paternalistically speaking, Frida’s going off to college in August, so I’m feeling a little pressed for time.) We’re also both interested in…
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Stitching, Grids, Panoramas
(Please note: So far, I’ve done one test of the web app below and it didn’t do very well. I hope to do another test soon to try to understand the variables better. Proceed with caution!) I have, over the past several years, been really interested in creating photographic compositions comprised of multiple shots. The photo atop this post is stitched from about a dozen photographs. It’s probably impossible to discern from the…