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Some days are like jittery, malicious clockwork — sometimes things freeze mid-movement and we age several years in a few seconds.

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My camera sensor couldn’t handle this morning’s sunrise with my maple tree in full autumnal glory. Wonderfully happy accidents.

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No simple story can ever be true, and there is no simpler story than nothing means anything.

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You encounter some spooky characters on the night’s last haunted train ride at Greenfield Village.

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A lot of people who are less good characters often are just very compassionate, which makes them wonderful people, because they’re not thermostats, they’re thermometers, they kind of reflect the temperature of the room.

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So happy to have a physical copy of both the Over The Garden Wall series and now the soundtrack. I’ll be spinning this all October long.

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Our tree has bloomed into the full fall spectrum and I am literally here for it, having enjoyed significant time admiring it throughout the weekend.

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One of the more enjoyable parts of reaching an age where nostalgia-based media is being created for you, is discovering that tons of people also loved the “weird” things you did, they just all attended different schools.

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It can seem like every time you grow into a new life, it immediately outgrows you.

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I welcome the fall colors and temperatures with open arms.

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While enjoying coffee on a beautiful day, this giant carpenter bee floated by and settled onto the edge of my brother in-law’s shorts. We didn’t freak out and just let him rest there. This ended up being the bee’s final moments of life.
\nI’d like to think we made his exit at least a little humane.

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The quality of the equipment or tools that you use is more relevant the less experienced you are. But the irony is that, at the beginning of any pursuit, we end up cheaping out on our tools and equipment because we want to see if it’s something we want to try.

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However, I think that when we are new to something, there is a disproportionate benefit to having the best tools as compared to when we’re not new to something. This is because, the more you practice a given something, the better you get and the less relevant the quality of tools becomes.

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Somebody with a ton of experience can make do with ugly, crap tools to do beautiful work. However, when you are a beginner, good tools actually help you do more.

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Alec is a blacksmith but his quote made me think of all the YouTube videos where world famous photographers are given crap cameras and, in spite of the quality, they still end up taking meaningfully good photographs with them.

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Once you reach a certain level of skill, you know how to target good work. Your competency identifies what parts to ignore or compensate for along the path to a result.
\nWhen you’re just beginning, you have none of that.

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Tell me you came of age in the 90’s without telling me: Spending my Saturday labeling CD’s

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Time will pass whether you start that new thing or not; ten years from now, will you wish you’d spent ten years learning that new thing, or be content to be ten years older but still without that new skill?

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THE most old man morning I could have: woke up before 7am, had indigestion from too much garlic at dinner, needed to fix a work thing I forgot last night, and decided to watch the sunrise while exercising. 👴🏻

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Enjoying a post-thunderstorm walk through the sunset.

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A wicked storm shot past us last night, filling the sky with so much lightening that I was able to catch a few. I had no clue what settings I should use but my very old camera and I made the best of it.

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We somehow managed to find ways to carefully store 12+ years of our daughter’s art but all we’ve really done is buy ourselves time to figure out where even more are going to go when she brings them home.

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Took a walk to enjoy the blood moon.

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2026-08-29T13:32:37-04:00", "url": "https://blog.gregmoore.me/2026/08/29/took-a-walk-to-enjoy.html", "tags": ["photos"] }, { "id": "http://gregmoore.micro.blog/2026/08/27/this-bird-has-flown-and.html", "content_html": "

This bird has flown and her mother and I left our hearts in Ann Arbor.

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We got her a new toy as an apology for being gone so long. She likes it so much that she now sleeps with it.

\n\"A\n", "date_published": "2026-08-24T13:51:16-04:00", "url": "https://blog.gregmoore.me/2026/08/24/we-got-her-a-new.html", "tags": ["photos","cats"] }, { "id": "http://gregmoore.micro.blog/2026/08/20/view-atop-sleeping-bear-dunes.html", "content_html": "

View atop Sleeping Bear Dunes. The edge of that sand drops waaaaaaaay down to a, “it will cost you a $3,000 rescue helicopter ride if you can’t walk back up yourself” beach.

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The ferry was rocking and rolling on Lake Huron so much that I’m impressed my camera managed this shot of The Mighty Mack.
\nAlso, my hat got blown off… and into the woman behind me. Embarrassing but now it’s my “lucky” hat.

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Asking the lovely woman at the front desk of our not-fancy hotel provided us with the perfect dinner recommendation.
\nWe also got back in time to thank her, which turned into a very short chat and a core memory of the vacation.

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More human, less tech.

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Tahquamenon Falls State Park

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