well, i'm going to jackson ...

jackson II, originally uploaded by pr9000.

Trotter has a "best friend" (insofar as dogs can have best friends) about four houses down. Jackson is 85 pounds of pure golden retriever muscle; he slammed into my foot last summer and I was certain he a broke a few of my toes. He's strong.

He's also not fixed, and if one dog year is like seven human years, he's about 19 years old and still a virgin. So you can imagine the energy he's got. In fact, I don't have to imagine it, but that's another story for another blog post ...

He came over for a "playdate" today -- yes, I can hear you thinking it, but we don't need a real child, thankyouverymuch -- and the two of them wore each other out in the back yard. Jackson is a very hard dog to photograph sitting still, so I'm kind of proud that I managed to get this one.

processed with Aperture 2.0

trotter p, originally uploaded by pr9000.

Apple released the next version of its image processing tool, Aperture. I'll have more to say on it later, but for now -- it's much faster, it still has a slight lead in interface coolness, but still lacks a lot of the presets and web page tools that made me go Lightroom in the first place.