The stone Soup Community Center, a neighborhood outreach, education center, and co-op at 4 King Street, has been gutted by a fire of currently unknown origin. Nobody was hurt as far as I know. The building has been evacuated - all 3 floors are involved and several ladders are at the scene. I hope that the people who built and relied on Stone Soup can find what they need to continue.





More photos. My heart goes out to everyone who lost a place to live and an important part of the community today.

I've had a fascination with photography and capturing the moment for a long time. Back in November, I realized that the world of panoramas was within my grasp when hugin, a panorama stitching program popped up on Reddit. Since then I've learned quite a few of the finer points of hugin based panorama stitching and made 4 panoramas in total.

The White Mountains

Every Thanksgiving my Dad's side of the family makes a pilgrimage to Pinkham Notch in the White Mountains for a weekend of family, hiking, board games, and eating too much.

From Square Ledge

I took this shot from Square Ledge, overlooking the pass:


White Mountains Full Size Panorama

Lion's Head

That Saturday my cousin Jacob and I climbed up to Lion's head (foolishly without enough gear, but we survived). I got this view:


Lion's Head Full Size Panorama

Vermont Weekend

Last weekend I went up to my friend Jack's Uncle's Friend Dave's house. I got these shots while there:

Sledding Hill

We decided to go sledding on Saturday. I got this one from the bottom of the hill.


Sledding Hill Full Size Panorama

Dave's House

As we were figuring out what to do with the day on Sunday, I stood in the corner and took a lot of photos of the inside of the house... here are the results!


Dave's House Full Size Panorama

Panoramas are Great

I hope you liked my work. If you like photography, you'll love panorama-ing, or whatever the verb for making panoramas is.

Cake. Everyone likes cake. I recently found my mini bundt pans.. so what to bake except mini bundt cakes? I found this recipe at cooks.com but it was not complete.. I found some general figures for bundts and fleshed it out.



Looks tasty eh? Here's...

The Recipe

Prep time: 20 minutes
Bake time: 45 minutes

Ingedients

• 2/3 cup butter
• 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• pinch salt
• 2/3 cup milk

Nothing fancy there. You don't need yak milk or anything weird and hard to find like that.

Steps

• Cream butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
• Separate eggs.
• Add egg yolks, separately, beating well after each.
• Mix in extracts.
• Mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to creamed mixture.
• Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into greased and floured mini bundt pans or cup cake pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Mmm, tasty. It's been suggested that I try chocolate drizzle next time. I'm thinking of either doing that, or lemon glaze next time.