Greens

A friend asked, "Whatcha takin' a picture of that for?"I replied, "I dunno. I just like it."And so I do.She said I am strange. Maybe. There are worse things a girl can be. The box has been sitting there for a week now. Empty. I can't figure out why, but conjecture is fun.

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Leaf Pile

Why is it that children love piles of leaves?  I remember jumping in huge piles of leaves when I was a kid, and now I laugh as I watch my daughter do it.  I was inside cleaning the house last weekend while M was out cleaning up the yard.  It was gorgeous, and Zoe would much rather be outside than in, so she was there with him, “helping.”  I glanced up from my work to see my child race past the family room window with a huge smile on her face.  The second time I saw her do it, I had to find out what was up.
M had created an enormous pile and she was having a blast.  Running and jumping into the pile, and then rolling around in the leaves.  M buried her up to her neck.  I grabbed the camera and headed outside.
Being a rational adult, all I could think of was how leaves aren’t really that comfortable, especially when they’re brown and scratchy.  I don’t think it matters to kids, though.

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Pumpkin Patchwork Quilt

A few years ago, I purchased some interesting gourds when we took Zoe to the pumpkin patch.  Then they sat around for a month while I didn’t have time to shoot them.  Then they started looking a little funky so I had to shoot them.  And while they were fun, I got bored pretty quickly and that was that.  I was glad I had spent only $1.50.

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Estes Park & Rocky Mountain National Park

Turns out I have a boatload of images from Colorado.  I definitely like what I was able to pull from that trip better than the take from Newport.  Of course, I had five days to shoot in Estes, versus a couple hours in Newport.  Anyway, I have way too much to post here. I had way too much to post on Facebook, too, but I did it anyway.  Here, though, I tried to be a bit more selective and just pull my absolute favorites.

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Sleep needed. And more hours in the day.

I’m tired.  Just flat-out pooped.  So much going on at work…there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day.  It’s a good job, though, and I am enjoying what I’m doing (while running about like my hair is on fire).  And, thankfully, I work with great folks. I know just how bad a bad job can be, and I’m about as far from that as a girl can get.

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Colorado: 1 of XX?

Turns out that when you’ve shot a bajillion images in Colorado, it takes more than one night to edit and process them.  Been at this all night since Zozer went to bed, and I’m nowhere near done.  So I’m calling it quits and throwing a bone out before I go to bed.

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13 Years

Happy anniversary, my sweet M!  13 years of wedded bliss.  Okay, not always blissful, but always, always worth it.  Everything we’ve been through has made us who we are today, and I wouldn’t change a single thing.  (Okay, I might change the emergency appendectomy timing so it didn’t coincide with Zozo’s baptism…maybe put it off a week or so, and I’d probably insist you do the torn labrum surgery before we had a child, but, you know, that’s about it.)

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Newport Pix

So, I’m not sure if I’m just cranky, or tired.  Or cranky and tired.  But I sat down tonight and thought I’d go through the Newport shots and see what I could get.

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Something fun to share

Wow.  This is about the coolest damn thing I’ve seen in a long, long time.  I’ve never embedded someone else’s video before, so let’s see if I can get this to work.

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