October | 2014 | Beth Byrnes

Spinning Fall tails

Posted on October 17, 2014 14 Comments

Vince Lombardi famously called football “controlled pain”. Given everything that has been going on over the past year here, I don’t think any of us would disagree with that. Clearly Lombardi meant that in a very positive way. I agree with control as an aim, pain, not so much. A couple of weekends ago, Geoff and […]

Bearly Oktoberfest

Posted on October 10, 2014 36 Comments

Despite any appearances to the contrary, this is not primarily about photography. Oh, photographs will be involved because they figured heavily into the plan I dreamed up last weekend to catch an early Oktoberfest somewhere here in the Southland. How can it feel like a Bavarian alpine autumn celebration, complete with dark, warm beer, when […]

Oblivio Oblivias Obliviat

Posted on October 3, 2014 18 Comments

I am no Latin scholar, despite having studied it for four years in high school. I took Latin because I planned to be a psychologist or psychiatrist and as such it was recommended that one of our two required languages be either Latin or German. One of my quirks is that I have to love […]