What on earth is that header image?

I had meant to explain the (current) header image for this blog, but hadn’t yet.  My lack of visual creativity made it difficult to pick a header image because the dimensions are nothing at all like a regular photo.  And since this is really just a personal blog I wanted to use some picture I had taken, as opposed to just using a theme that already looked decent by default.  In any case, I wound up going with a further crop of the following already-cropped image:

I took the above in January of this year, and it was never intended even to be an actual photo.  Rather, the wife and kids – and by now, you know I have just two of them despite what the above image suggests – were still in Asia, and I was trying to clean up our home a little.  Considering that they brought a completely adequate supply of bottles to Asia (another half dozen or so), it seemed sort of ridiculous to me that we had so many remaining bottles completely occupying a drawer.  So I took a picture the above just to say “isn’t this a bit much” and to ask permission to throw some of the less used bottles out.

I got a header image for this blog, but I didn’t get permission :).