Filing photos, favorites of Megan
Today was the day to get my photos from 2006 organized and backed up. I filed everything I’d taken over the holidays, went through every folder from the year to verify contents and correct any filing errors during the year, and then backed up everything.
After that year-end bit of housecleaning, my 2006 totals are 7167 pictures totalling 18GB of storage space. That’s up from 6040 photos and 13GB in 2005, which was over twice the 2004 totals. (I went to 100% digital in September 2004, and sold both my film cameras at that time, an F100 and an N90S.)
While going through my photos to verify everything was filed correctly for the year, I decided to pull out copies of some of favorite pictures of Megan from 2006.
I decided not to include any photos from the day of the wedding, because I’ve already posted our favorites from the wedding, and I wanted to try to show a few photos that have never appeared on the personal blog before.
Thanks for putting up with a camera in your face all year, Dear. Signs are that 2007 may be even worse.
This entry was posted on Monday, January 1st, 2007 at 11:30 pm. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on January 2, 2007 at 11:03 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
WOW! I’D FORGOTTEN SOME OF THOSE MOMENTS! And, hadn’t seen many of them.
on January 2, 2007 at 11:06 am Doug wrote:
I posted these in a shameless attempt to curry favor with the in-laws, really. Glad to see my evil plot is working.
on January 2, 2007 at 11:07 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
and the Megan file! Of course they’re your favorites—how could they not be? There’s one I just labled and saved as: THE BEST PIC OF MEG EVER.
Know which one?
on January 2, 2007 at 12:09 pm tracy wrote:
doug, you have been blessed to be married to such a beautiful and photogenic woman.
on January 2, 2007 at 1:07 pm Doug wrote:
I agree, Tracy. And her friends are so glamorous, too.
Marsha, I’m thinking you’d like the combination of sly smile and sexy necklace in this one. Close?
on January 2, 2007 at 2:26 pm tracy wrote:
ugh. i hate that picture of me. all that caked on bridesmaid makeup combined with the unfeminine persperation on my oversized forehead makes for a very unattractive picture. and my head looks like it’s sitting upon a treetrunk, as if it were blugeoned in a medieval execution. “the beheading of lady jane grey” for example. oooooohhh… look how glamorous i am now.
on January 2, 2007 at 3:50 pm Mom wrote:
I liked the wide variety of pictures–and they all good. I imagine the one of Megan reading by candlelight was during the power outage–but some of them, I wasn’t even sure which continent they were taken on. When I see you you’ll have to fill in some details.
Mom M.
on January 2, 2007 at 4:44 pm Doug wrote:
Sorry, Tracy, I couldn’t resist. I love that picture, although I agree it’s not the least bit flattering or attractive. But it’s … oddly spectacular. (For the record guys, Tracy is actually an attractive woman, that photo notwithstanding.)
Mom, that candlelight picture is Megan reading the instructions on the carbon monoxide detector she was installing, after I got the gas fireplace going. Hence the serious expression. And as for continents, here are two of the photos labeled: South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Barcelona).
on January 2, 2007 at 8:35 pm nick wrote:
ummm, I thought that all pics of the wife were the favorites? that is what I’m told..
on January 2, 2007 at 11:20 pm Doug wrote:
You’re so right, Nick.
How can a man really choose just a few favorites?
There were countless worthy candidates, including these eight that I left out because they had already appeared on the blog last year.
on January 3, 2007 at 7:42 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Doug! You hit it on the nose! That sexy/sly pic is almost on its way to the world of my own readers—once the PO opens.I gave one big one to Granny who looked at it and sighed. (She sees herself in Megan of all the grands, and therefore, saw herself in lights?)
I was so enthralled by it, I want it bigger–like poster size. And may do it.
Tracy!(did I actually ask if you were Buster’s daughter???? Dear God. Am so sorry)
Gorgeous picture. love the drama.
Oh, I just love pictures!!!
on January 3, 2007 at 7:46 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Hey—why do you feel you need to curry anything from the in-laws??? Someone giving you some trouble?
Their names, please.
You know me.
You know my powers.
The “contract” offers in the wedding planning days–still good/no shelf life/let me know.
WHACK—problems gone.Future bright.
on January 3, 2007 at 9:02 am Megan wrote:
Oh good grief (Doug), when will this end?
Okay, I guess I’m due for a favorite pictures of Doug post. Oh yeah. And videos. Can’t forget the videos. Hold my beer and watch this!
on January 3, 2007 at 9:04 am Tom wrote:
Wow — I don’t have ANY aunts who would react to my difficulties with “WHACK—problems gone.Future bright.” Megan’s Aunt Marsha, you’re just fantastic (happy belated birthday, by the way!).
on January 4, 2007 at 3:16 pm AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Why, thank you, dear!
And in lieu of my birthday ….might I whack someone for you, Hon? It is a simple pleasure, somewhat lost in these high tech days, you know.
Oh, yes….back in time, one was whacked with far less waiting around for fate to kick in and karma filling in the hurtful gaps as is the case these days. That Saddam fellow—he got it rather quickly, did he not? We westerners are not used to such satisfaction as those Eastern types engage in. We need our nuked foods done in less than 37 seconds or we go out and eat—but a hanging? Noooooooooo! Let’s wait about 30 years, why don’t we?
They say ….something about something best served cold…vengance…? ( I have a dictionary but it is so far away. My spellcheck was never installed on this computer. I AM a Katrina survivor after all! I shouldn’t HAVE TO SPELL ANYMORE!). In any event, I don’t buy it. Not one for any deferred pleasures, me. Swift and clean, that’s my motto.
And dignity—a must.There is honor among thieves—and the whackers among us.
Tracy, dahling—You simply MUST meet Dr. Evilla, my alter ego, so to speak.
She can help in so many ways!
yes, yes….Dr. Evilla—how long has it been, Doug, since you’ve enjoyed a session?
OH! the power she wields…!
on January 4, 2007 at 3:21 pm AUNT MARSHA wrote:
ooops, again! Oh, and I thought my glass was empty!(and yet—look! It is quite full! Oh, I see….tis the 2nd glass.Yes, well…)
So sorry, Love. The offer of whack help—to that dear Tom it should have been directed— Tracy can be next in line.
I mean, in honor of my birthday,you see. Like the Godfather on the day of his daughter’s wedding. No favor turned down…
on January 4, 2007 at 3:33 pm AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Glass # 3…
ha ha ha ha….oh, is life grand, or WHAT?
wheeeeeeee !!!
hello, Tom!
hello, Tracy!!!
Now, what subject shall we discuss?
I feel so alive and vibrant (oh. no, that was Meg in that turbo thing).
Yes, well….
………sorry.Back to my room. Today was not actually a day in which I was scheduled to be out. But I thought I had an appt. with my cardiologist. It’s tomorrow.
We’ll talk then?
wheeeeeee…
oh do allow me one itsy bitsy comment, do, please.
Miss Julie,a remarkable movie. That short, footman fellow—BRAVO!! The control of that dialogue. O! took my breath quite away. He was absolutely chilling. reminded me of Quills. The command of the king’s English—no small affair, that. Oh, is there someone out there who does watch movies?
Can we talk? Tomorrow, when I’m allowed out?
I don’t require much of an audience, nor too much of a forum, for that matter. Why, I often just carry on all by myself! And the things I hear—-burn a whole right through your ear, I tell you.
Tomorrow then….I will so look forward.
on January 4, 2007 at 4:46 pm Doug wrote:
Marsha, we all look forward to tomorrow. May the Godfather’s daughter’s wedding never end!
Is that the wedding where that Sonny guy was banging one of the bridesmaids upstairs? That was the first description of a sex act I ever read, in Mrs. Thompson’s copy I found in their living room one day. Still burned into my brain. Of course, most kids these days have seen a lot more on video or in person by age 12, but I grew up in more innocent times.
on January 4, 2007 at 5:05 pm AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Oh, I’m back, sorry,
But, yes!!! Yes. You read the book, then?
shh….be still my heart. The Godfather has become so indelibly inked into our brains as a movie that the truer, far more insightful images from the book have been dampened (or was that that turbo thing again?).
YES, AND IT WAS FROM THAT PARTICULAR UNION—SHE WAS ONE OF THE BRIDESMAIDS, I DO BELIEVE, THAT THE LATER HEAD OF THE FAMILY WAS SPEWED. SPEWN?
SONNY’S HIGH HANDED, QUICK TEMPERED SON FROM OUTSIDE OF THE MARRIAGE.
LATER RECOGNIZED AS ANDY GARCIA. I COULD BE WRONG…GLASS # 5 AFTER ALL….
OK, ONE MORE THING AND THEN I AM REALLY OUT—DID EVERYONE KNOW THAT ANDY GARCIA WAS A CONJOINED TWIN?
HE’S SEPERATED NOW, OF COURSE.
on June 13, 2007 at 6:47 pm justine wrote:
Hi Doug
I found you website and got this page.
http://www.mahugh.com/asia99/asia08.htm
At the end of paragraph 2 you said Nope — we never did find Taj
Mahal stamps, so maybe they aren’t available.
There are some taj mahal stamps. I found some on indianpost.com
indian philately.net and ebay, as well as
http://members.aol.com/shobansen/A/agra.html
I would like these stamps as well. I have also got a site with these
stamps on them. One is from a place called Ajman, the rest are from
India. My site is located @
http://www.geocities.com/justinekenny777/justinesstampwishes.html
I kow that your site is a few years old and I would like to hear if
you have been able to track some down between then and me sending this
email
Regards
justine
Justine Kenny
HTTP://www.geocities.com/justinekenny777/countryside.html