What's that?

My cousins Andrew, Frances and me.

You're kidding, right?



No really. look! OMG, I never noticed that!!!




There's something on his loin cloth, there's nothing hanging out!!! 

New England Stuff

I came up to New England for a reunion. I'm staying at my cousin's house and saw this shovel standing in the yard. I liked the colors and angles. The fact that this is a pooper scooper is irrelevant, right????




This sunflower is in another cousin's garden. Her house is on 16 acres, and has so many interesting little garden spots. I liked the sunflowers

Some kind of tool on a stone wall. Neat lines





The garden gnome, another hidden gem

Better Version

Gotta love Picassa! 

Evening Near Silver Lake

Tim and I went out and did some shooting during the golden hour. These were the only good shots I got. Tim kicked my but with some pretty sunset pics. I'll have to post them tomorrow. All my shots were from a bad angle and had wicked sun glare on them. They have suffered the fate they deserved, erasure! The white flower is a marsh mallow. No, really thats what its called. The cloud looked like a man-o war jelly fish. I need to learn photoshop elements so I can have the tree and the clouds shown off at their best. 

Artsy-er stuff

A couple of shots of crepe myrtle in the front yard, horses on a nearby farm, and an awesome sunset at Silver Lake 

I'm a freakin rib artist

Take a look at all the before pics! Don't you wish you were here! Sue took the people pics, I took the food pics. Yes comments were made about taking pictures of the food!

I only made the ribs because my mom likes them so much. The rest of us just tolerate them for her sake. 

Moms Birthday Pictures

here are some pics from the little birthday thing for my mom today. I spent much of the day running around doing stuff so it would happen. It was nice to have her and Gram Kelly over. Rabbit ears seem to be a requirement! 

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I had a long essay (well for me anyways) about these shots and the things I was thinking about, that just kind of vaporized when I thought I published it. Probably just as well since it was mostly depressing stuff, even to me. So... you get the pics without much commentary.


The Family plot with no headstones interested me. What a mystery. This picture looked Japanese to me...



Ann died about 20 years before her husband Josiah, now they are spending eternity together, and gradually their stones are going to be over-whelmed by the forces of nature, as they were...



A cast concrete stone, as nearly as I could tell. She died in the depression. I'm guessing this was all that was affordable.





An outhouse in a graveyard just seemed funny to me. I got over it when I noticed I liked the shapes, colors and shadows .

Last scene in the graveyard

A picture of a sparrow, going about his life, not knowing, caring or wondering about the historys of the people buried all around. There was a pretty blue lizard on one of the trees in another family plot.. same thing.... 

Wrought Iron Fence

This was in the graveyard I was at last week. Someone must have had to replace the one side of the fence here. It took me a while to notice it. Look at the difference in the tops... gotta wonder about the story . I liked the shapes either way. 

Better version of the Reenactors

Used the picasa grain thing... looks older now 

Reenactors at Fort Delaware

I used the picasa thing that changes the pics to Black and white or sepia... 

Oops, missed one

Water drops on leaves, always a winner! 

More New England Garden pics, Last for the night, from a prize winning photographer

Yellow, cool shapes, rain water on petals, fuzz on leaves. How can you go wrong? Well, not quite as sharp as I'd have liked. I should have used the tripod!



I was going for the unseen, quiet little scene mood here. Lots of pretty things here, just gotta take the time to look and grok them all. That's a "Stranger in a Strange Land" reference for those that don't know what grokking is.