I am in the process of adding a full picture album to the site. This has been the most frustrating part about maintaining a web site, since I really like the platform I am using, but it has not supported a nice, simple, integrated photo album feature. So I was finally convinced to go with Flickr, since it has a very robust API and great upload and management tools. Getting it to work with Picasa is not as simple as it should be, but I have a workable solution for now using Flickr Uploadr.

I hope to get into serious photography in the near future, but have hoped to do so for years. We now have a cheap point-and-shoot, and it does what we need: it is small and can capture the moments that we want to capture without making a big deal of things. The pictures are not as nice as they would be with a Canon 20D, but they work for now in our current situation, and I have learned that even a bad picture is enough to provoke numerous memories years later.

So for now I am working toward a full integration of this blog with Flickr. And the first step in that is setting up Flickr with images, sets, and collections. I will work with this for a while, and get dynamic feeds into this blog as time permits.

Until then, enjoy the pictures that are posted so far.