The JCC day care is closed today and tomorrow for the start of Sukkot, so as a result, I spent most of the day home with The Pip (SteelyKid went off to school as usual). Which means I got a whole bunch of photos of him playing at home and at a couple of local parks.
The best for photo-of-the-day purposes was this one of him looking out from behind a wooden bench at one of the parks:
The Pip grinning from behind a bench.
I like the way the bench and the concrete pavers behind it are basically monochrome, making his face and hair really stand out. Probably would be even more striking with a different color shirt, but it's not like he considers my photo aesthetics when selecting the superhero short of the day...
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I live in Haringey, an as-yet-ungentrified part of North London, and there's a small park near me with a very curious chair in it.
I've heard you have to sing loud if you want to change the world.
Cloning DNA – lyrics by Sandra Porter, sung to the tune of Surfin' USA
C ..................G7..................C
If everybody had a plasmid, across the U.S.A.,
I just came across this excellent post by Dan Herzog at Left2Right about the common conservative rhetoric of being opposed to "legislating from the bench." When he announced the Harriet Miers nomination, President
"Remains Benches"