With everything in bloom, I decided to get out my macro lens and take some photos of the flowers in the garden. It’s a very sweet lens, I should do macro more. John likes his yard to have native plants in it. So I didn’t have to twist his...
How am I raising Laura right? John uses Pentax, I use Canon, and for a long while now, Laura was using a Nikon. I thought we were going to be a three brand camera family. 🙂 It turns out that Laura has made a big switch, not only from a...
It’s not unusual for me to announce, “Nice light on some mushrooms outside” or “Spider on the side of the house.” while rushing into the house grabbing my camera gear, and Laura doing the same. Today we had a spider, he was quite large. Well, Silas must be learning by...
Yesterday, my son Enric brought in a caterpillar and then later Miquel came in to tell me get the camera ready, there was a stick bug on his car. Later and very enthusiastically I showed John my photos. His comment? “Nice bum shot.” I didn’t know that on the stick...
We’ve been keeping Silas pretty busy these days. Today he had great fun with a daddy long legs. And later, his nana got him a bat and ball, and well, it was a bit confusing to him, but he had fun!
Yesterday, my actual birthday, I had a very relaxing day. We had a nice family dinner together, ordering take-out from Texas Roadhouse. I got even more presents! Petra sent a designer doormat. I know what attracted her to it, the art work is tremendous, and the subject is birds! So...
Mom handed Cameron one day a car to play with. I wondered where it came from, as it was obviously old. She told me it was my dad’s. Since it was my dad’s, the very moment Cameron wasn’t interested in playing with it, I put it on my shelf, and...
We’ve had very little winter here in Maryland. The temperatures have been cold, but no snow. Today we had a few flakes. Inspired by Beth Ellen’s snowflakes, I thought to take a close up photo of one as they fell on the car windshield. So, here is my first (and...
