I dream of rain

Try it at someone else's.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Or, more accurately, I don't want to not go out ... like this...

I'm taking more photos now, which is nice. Unfortunately not everyone agrees.

Meanwhile, one of the cacti outside my window bloomed. Over the space of three days, it grew into this flower:

Even mostly closed, this thing is the size of my fist. Yow.

It's been stuck in -rc status for four months. Much less feedback this time around, which can be attributed to less interest, or perhaps the code's been more robust this time around. We'll see.

There are many more user-visible changes than usual this time around, ihcluding a nice dark theme, pretty URLs, and per-folder/album thumbnails. Oh, and a 40x speed improvement on a hot-path sql query. Yikes.

Each release has made PO's internals less obnoxious and easier to change, but I've hit another brick wall and the next set of internal improvements will be pretty invasive, with no real user-visible benefit.

Unfortunately, development has slowed down considerably lately, in part due to RealLife(tm).. but as always, it's nice to get feedback.

I also just switched PO over to using git. Due to differences in the usage model (from svn), there was no easy way to migrate the old history in the same repo and still continue using git's best pracices. C'est la vie.

On a whim, I picked up a 52mm reverse mount adapter. With lenses mounted backwards, one turn an otherwise boring lens into quite a magnifier, as this marauding snail found out:

There's no sense of scale here, but the snail's shell is the size of my pinkie nail. Those small "pebbles" on its shell are actually grains of sand.

...and it's viciously devouring a piece of Meow Mix. Whatever the alley cats leave behind, snails finish off...

A Great Egret trying to run away from me:

A clutch of ducklings:

Even flamingos get morning hair.

Fire Poi, with a twist