The Seven Deadly Chess Sins

From a highly amusing book by Jonathan Rowson.

I wanted to add a succinct description of each sin, but found it difficult to distill from the book.

Anyway, here they are:

Thinking
Blinking
Wanting
Materialism
Egoism
Perfectionism
Looseness

California Quail

Despite their abundance at the Yosemite house, I've had trouble photographing the California Quail.

Using the Google search engine I was able to find many photos of them attractively posed on fenceposts or peeking out of the undergrowth. But whenever I tried to capture one myself, they always scurried away as I fumbled with the camera or a lens.

But this morning, armed with my new Canon EOS 10D and a telephoto lens that looks a bit like a bazooka, I took this one as we returned from the Indian Rock acorn grinding holes:

Still not that great, but OK I guess.