Potterblogging

And as we count down to only one more sleep, today's issue of crikey.com.au offers an assortment of hypotheses on how the Harry Potter series might wind up. Here is my favourite:

Neville Longbottom manages to convince Voldemort and Harry that they should detain Parvati Patil without charge. This has unforeseen consequences.

In a not unrelated conversation, I was telling My Friend the Lawyer a week or two ago all about my plans for a photo-essay en blog recording the scenes tomorrow morning in Border's when I will be jostling with a lot of ferocious nine-year-olds (plus Ampersand Duck's BB, in spirit if not in fact) to pick up my copy of the final volume.

I had planned to amuse myself by taking pix of the hundreds of junior Snapes, Hagrids, Hermiones and other assorted Hogwarts alumni who abound in the early-morning streets of Adders (and every other city in the Anglophone world, I'm sure) every time a new Potter comes out.

My Friend the Lawyer, scornful still of blogs, looked at me sternly for a moment. 'Uh huh,' she said. 'Do give me a call from the station after the nice policeman has grabbed you by the elbow and said "Excuse me, Madam, what are you planning to do with those photographs of strange children that you're taking in a public place?" and you've answered "Well, Officer, I'm going to put them on the Internet."'

One more for Cliff Hardy

Semaphore, SA, 14/07/07

My local beach and shopping strip.

Walking to the Adelaide Hilton: more Adders Noir

Looking north from Victoria Square, Adelaide: 8.02 pm, 8/7/07

No, it doesn't look like Adelaide to me either

Looking east down Gouger Street, Adelaide: 8 pm, 8/7/07

Still playing with the new toy

Macro mode.

This is a miniature rose; that central full-blown bloom is only about 3 cm across, if that. I didn't see the spider or the web at all until I'd downloaded the photo and could see it full-sized on the screen.

Digicam babysteps meet tomato-growing babysteps ...

Well, shucky darn and slop the chickens.

It works!