Prospect Park, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

View from relaxville

On top of Big Slide, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

One of the 46er high peaks!

As one other Hewins on facebook put it, I’ve been “collecting Hewinses” on facebook recently. I met Amber Hewins, who also lives in Brooklyn, has a farm share, likes pickles, and twitters. Maybe we’re related, I don’t know yet. But I did determine that there is a Loren Hewins in Indiana who is my fourth cousin. We share great-great-great grandparents. Pretty cool. I want to build a big family tree.

IMG_9591, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

My parents and sister came to visit New York last month and we went out to Liberty Island and a lot of other places around the city while they were here. This is everything but the statue.

UFO at Storm King, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

I found another UFO in a pretty unlikely place. This is etched into the window of the elevator at Storm King sculpture park.

eMusic is planning to add 200,000+ songs to the catalog from a few major labels. This is good news, however it’s coming with a price increase.

I used to be able to get 65 track downloads per month for $14.99. Now, as you can see above, they are drastically cutting the number of downloads I get for the same price, starting next month.

65 downloads for $14.99 comes out to $0.23 per track. That’s a lot less than iTunes.

37 downloads for $14.99 comes out to $0.41 per download. Still less than iTunes.

So, I’m getting 57% of the music for a 78% increase in cost per track.

I really hope the new selections are a really, really good.

This, however, is the eMusic thing. I’m honestly surprised that any major labes are getting in on this. It’s not as good of a money maker as iTunes is on a per track basis. But I guess the labels are at the point where they’ll take what they can get.

The Cougar Label sells Up The Empire tracks  on eMusic and we don’t see much from there (especially compared to iTunes). Maybe that’s why Tzadik took their catalog off of eMusic a few months back. They just didn’t think it was worth it.

Central Floral Supply, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

Taken on a (one of the many) rainy day(s) this Spring.

Here are more of my shop windows.

Lyndhurst 3 with Hillary, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

This was taken the day that Hillary and I got engaged! We went to Lyndhurst, an old mansion on the Hudson River. After that, we checked out the river near Cold Spring and then the town of Cold Spring, where we stayed.