Tag: Winter

Snoopy -- view source for mobile Safari

Snoopy is a bookmarklet for snooping on web pages. It's intended for use on mobile browsers (such as Mobile Safari on the iPad) where you can't view-source to poke around under the hood of sites to see how they're built. You might find it useful for your desktop browser, too. Mark Perkins

I discovered this excellent solution while helping a friend solve a CSS problem with his website. We were at the client's office and unable to access his site due to the client's web filter restrictions. So we pulled up his website on my iPad but couldn't view the source to see what might be causing the issue. Snoopy helped a great deal.

Before They Pass Away

Putting aside a successful career, British photographer Jimmy Nelson embarked on a treacherous, lengthy journey to document the last remaining indigenous people of the world. From the thick, wet Amazon rain forests of Ecuador to the frigid tundras of Siberia, Nelson sought out and spent significant time with each native culture, grasping a genuine understanding of their lives and traditions. Shot with a 50-year-old plate film camera, Before They Pass Away is a poignant chronicle of heritage and humanity that threatens to be lost forever.Jenna Garrett

His images are beautiful! Check them out.

Nature's Chandelier

Do Winter photos look better in black & white?

This is a sassafras tree Shaan and I planted in the backyard about 10 years ago. He brought it home one day from kindergarten. He was excited because he had just learned about native trees and why we should plant them instead of the invasive European and Asian trees that some people prefer. The sassafras is native to New Jersey.

The tree has grown over the years. From a small six inch "twig" it has grown to the second level of the house. Shaan can see it from his bedroom window but it is planted right under Kiran's bedroom window.

"Sassifrasi"-- that's the trees nickname -- lost some limbs during the last hurricane but it otherwise very healthy. Today the freezing rain has turned its branches into a sort of crystal chandelier.

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