Brookside St. Patrick's Day Parade 2006

Today was the annual Brookside St. Patrick's Day Parade. This is always a sign that Spring is close: green everywhere! In fact, the weather obliged today and although the day began gray, the sun eventually burned off the cloud cover and we couldn't have asked for it to be more beautiful. Almost 80 degrees. I always take a bunch of pictures at this thing: all our neighbors are around, our neighborhood parish school, St. Peter's, marches in the parade, and it is a bit of a freak show, to boot. All my favorite kinds of things. Additionally, it reminds of the many reasons I love Apple products so much: the ease with which I can create media so quickly after an event like this. My wife has completely given up making photo albums. We take gads of digital pics and then load them into iPhoto. From there I either import them into iMovie and burn a slideshow through iDVD (i.e., our family's last two summer vacations), or I make a slideshow right in iPhoto, upload it onto my iDisk, then connect it to my .Mac homepage for viewing. The only disadvantage to this is that they are consistenly large files and as a result take awhile to download for viewing (even with high-speed connections). If you want a sample of what I'm talking about, click here. There are two other short movies on my .Mac homepage as well: the same parade in 2004 and a trip I took to Taize in the summer of 2003. Be warned though, they take a long time to download. My other new favorite deal is using my phone to capture short video clips. Today I caught the bagpipe corps warming up as we walked to the parade. Check it out here.

Comments

[Daniel]

A friend recently sent Lindsay and me a greeting card, on it he wrote, and now I pass to you:

Keep the spirit Irish:
Love violently,
Fight passionately,
Live fiercely,
Drink mightily,
Eat sensationally,
and be blessed abundantly.

Thanks for the updates.

[Jason Braman]

Good to read a post Tim! Glad to hear life is good and rich. Peace.

[Daniel]

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