My obsession with having a photo for every day of the year continues. Unless my trail cameras yield something, January 28 came and went without an image. No wildlife wandered by the window to bail me out, as happened on a couple of recent POD dates. But as I was sorting through my really old images from 2002 and before, I found three to fill other gaps, and two of the images happened to be from Houston.

The first image from February 19, 2000 is of the Houston Astrodome during the annual livestock show. I took it with my Kodak DC290 which was a relatively big bulky thing but a step up in technology from my previous camera, a Kodak DC210. The Astrodome still stands but is pretty much abandoned now.

This was a family trip, not a photo trip, and I don't have any other images from it on the site. I stuck this in my baseball gallery because I saw the Astros play the Reds in the Astrodome on May 31, 1976. This was at the height of the Big Red Machine, and George Foster hit a home run off J.R. Richard as the Reds won 4-2. The Astros played their last season in the Astrodome in 1999, just before this image was taken.

The next image is from March 31, 2002, also taken with the DC290. It is a strange-looking plant in my brother's back yard in Houston. Once again, I posted no other images from this family trip so I stuck it in my Desert Wildlife and Plants gallery. Houston is sort of in the Southwest, but is much closer to a swamp than a desert.

Third, we have a mediocre image from April 13, 2002 of a spring daffodil I picked in my front yard in Massachusetts and brought inside. The only distinguishing thing about this image is it may be the very first that I took with a Canon digital camera, a Powershot S330 ELPH. This camera was downright beautiful compared to the clunky Kodak. I had been using Canon SLR film cameras for more than three years by then, so it seemed a logical step when I was looking to replace the Kodak. Later in the year I took the Canon DSLR plunge and my conversion from film to digital was almost complete.

There are eight POD holes left, all between January 28 and April 5. And since this is a Leap Year, I'm really feeling the pressure to get something on February 29. I need to plan a studio shot of something if all else fails.