DUCK!!!

Hey! Look up in the sky! It's blue!

MONSTER TRUCKS!!!!!!!!

They sold us the whole seats, but we only needed........THE EDGE!!!!!

My son.

Last night when the kids were getting ready to leave for Mom's house, Aidan was asked the following question: "What shape is the back bedroom in?" the back bedroom being the impromptu playroom for the kids, and it tends to get destroyed, you see. Aidan answered in the following manner (I will spell it out the way he said it, as it will be important later) "Um....wecktangle". I almost wet myself.

When Abby came into the room to find us all laughing like idiots, she asked what was so funny. I told her what Aidan had said about the room and she laughed as well, and then said - wait for it - "Wecktangle, that is funny, because it's 'rectangle'"

Friday fun food!

Following you'll Find my Friday Fun Food Foto For my Friend Fer. Foolish? Fugeddaboudit!

Tee hee

P.S. - You too Steven, but dammit, I just thought Fteven was going too far for the sake of alliteration, just.....I don't know, silly.

My beautiful daughter.

This is a picture that Michelle has christened: "The wall-eyed mucksucker". I think it fits.

Portland on a rare dry February evening.

Here's hoping it's not raining (or snowing??) where you are!

From the Tram trip!

It was like a circus out there!

What a difference exposure makes.

I find it amazing sometimes what a little difference in opening of the camera lens makes. The top photo is more representative of the actual sky whereas the bottom picture has the correct exposure on the grass. Though truth be told, I kind of prefer the grass black and abstract. This picture, like many, is also interesting in that what is in front of the lens is vastly different from what is behind it. I was standing in the shit-smelling dirt on the side of an unremarkable farm road with a house (an ugly house, at that) just to the right of the frame. Kind of makes me think of some of my favorite pictures from famous photographers, what kinds of distractions were just out of frame? That is the wonderful part of photography to me, picking out the little bits of beauty among the mundane, and seeing the world for what it can be, if you know how to look. Wow. That's kinda pompous, sorry.