If it happens again, Fort Collins authorities said I should call the police and they would come out and talk to the children.

It doesn’t sound bad, until it happens to you.
I shudder when I see cruelty to animals, and try to stop it from happening whenever I can.

Maybe it is just me, not Colorado. I was just so mad I sounded off on this blog.

I will get my digital video camera ready so if there is another incident, I will have proof.
You know how it is—some parents will call you a liar and say that there kid didn’t do anything wrong.

Forgive me, I am still angry. I did not have a full “complement” of birds and squirrels today because they do not trust my yard. I hope the rest come back soon.

I am watching Batman, my 15 year-old cat, like a hawk. Not for prey, but for love. He is an unusual, loving cat and a little like Gina will miss Heather, my heart will never heal when he goes—but he will live there in my heart space always.

I love the Canon digital series. My high school graduation present was a Canon D60 about a year after it came out, so an arm and a leg, but not the $5k+ for the Pro level DSLRs of the day and before the Digital Rebel came out (what a deal those are, almost all the goodies and a really nice discount on the price).

The D30 really made waves and started the debate about “can digital beat film” and the D60 really did print 8x10s as nice as film, and there’s no way in hell that I could afford to take 1,000 images at a frisbee event on film. I do it all the time digital.

If you get a good full frame up close shot on 6MP, fractal resizing technology makes printing much larger a breeze with little noticeable issues.

Well, Canon took what they learned on the D30 and D60 and came out with really good digital Rebels when their economy of scale and the ever declining price of sensor chips made doing so profitable. It’s essentially the same camera with a few features removed (like anyone misses them… mostly the features that most of us wouldn’t pay a $1 premium for). Plus, they came out with new models all the time with lost of new goodies worked in that weren’t in the more expensive models because the bigger ticket models weren’t being redone every few months.

GREAT series of cameras. I really think it 20 years the whole Canon digital line will be considered like the Walkman. A major turning point in electronics. A whole class of consumers became “pro-sumers” by having a whole lot of technology put in their hands for a good price.

The Canon vs. Nikon is a favorite flame war in the photog community, with the essential argument being that Nikon has some very expensive lenses that are widely considered better than what Canon offers weighed against the perception that Canon usually wins in functionality of the body. Most of the facts are about bodies and lenses that very few individuals actually own, mostly things so expensive that the newpaper actually owns them or the photog rents them, etc.

In the digital realm, there isn’t even a debate. Canon has really brought digital photography to the masses, both point and shoot all the way up to DSLRs.

Anyway, way too long. I have my own blog. :c)

Here’s my secret: Take a million pictures. Delete 999,999.

(I have a Canon Digital Rebel. This one was shot with a 400-700 lens. Or something like that. My brother and I have joint custody of “The Big Boy” lens.)

Whatever it is, you know your way around it. Excellent series of photos on the site as of late, the kitten, this shot. All very good captures.

Kudos.

The best asset we have is space and a plurality of yards. Not too many other big cities can claim the same abundance of open space and private space for pets as we can.

Is Colorado really an epicenter of elementary school hijinks? We’re no utopia for angelic children (hello Columbine), but I’d say we’re probably well above average.

Gina is in no safe zone for anti-pet travesties. I recall during my Freshman year out in the Bay Area that there was a serial cat killer (in Los Gatos of all places! Maybe Milpitas too.) that was doing seriously disturbing things to people’s pet cats. I don’t know how that ever turned out, but I remember that it wasn’t the usual “pets go missing in certain neighborhoods” kind of stories. It was sick stuff.

Four neighborhood kids (in lst or 2nd grade) came over my high fence to throw stones at the birds and squirrels I feed everyday.

I fear next it will be my 15 year old cats that get the stones thrown at them.

Kids will be kids, but do they have to choose little animals to target practice on?

Don’t worry, the police will be out next time speaking to the dear parents who don’t know how to raise their children.