034/366: Dinner

A big chunk of Sunday was lost to a wretched cold-- despite a two-hour afternoon nap, I was asleep by 10pm-- but I did get the camera out for a bit while doing some late-season grilling:

Pork chops on the grill. Pork chops on the grill.

Not the most amazing photo, I know (though it does take deliberate work to get those cross-hatched grill marks...), but it pairs well with this:

Thermal camera image of pork chops on the grill. Thermal camera image of pork chops on the grill.

Which is the same basic scene in the infrared. Because I have a thermal camera, so why not?

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