House Flip breakdown

Last Sunday's open house was a big disappointment. There were only 3 cash offers and none over $250 K. The other 4 offers all wanted terms and 90 days to inspect anddo mortgages and stuff. Mostly the buyers were hoping for a newer bathroom. Maybe next year will be more successful! The hard part will be getting mom out again.

OK, I lied

Which do you like better, the color, long version or the square black and white below?

Last ones for tonight

Back to the older house again. I know there's a picture here, I 'm just not getting it!


I'm always fascinated watching the great blue herons. Like all wild animals, they are out in the cold, heat, wind and rain 24x7... they look like guardians to me... and remind me of flying dinosaurs when they are overhead.

More Pics I took

A pretty awesome shot of Tim, if I do say so myself!



Shapes in a field

Pics I took Sunday: Yard Flowers

I took these in my front yard yesterday. The crocus is normal size, the other two are probably about a quarter inch or so. I love the idea of hidden stuff that you have to look for to see...

Impressions along the Delaware Bay

Vandals don't take spelling classes.


This one took a u-turn to get


I don't know what the story is here. It must have been pretty bad though.


Colors at sunset.

Horse show Pics

Here are some pics that I'm hoping will be published in the Dover Post this coming week. I took them at the Wicked R Ranch during some speed events. I'm excited because I've sold a few prints from earlier shows! I need to find a way to post them online for folks to buy when they're ready.

Flip that house, sort of

Here are the pics of mom's house for the new walls and painting project we've got going right now. The first 2 pics are before pics, and the last 3 are afters. Mom painted the accent wall in the kitchen! She claims to never have painted before.

3 from Cape Henlopen State Park

I had a meeting near the park tonight, so I decided to take some pics before the meeting started. I like the last one best. It's going from lower left to upper right, sort of, which makes it more dynamic, at least thats what they tell me...

Flip those rooms, part II

Painting today! Look at those two studs! The one in black is my nephew Alex, the good looking one is me!

Flip that bathroom and bedroom, or , how I will so own Linda on the Brownie Point thing

While Mary and Tim are down in Disney, I've been working on my mom's house to do some painting, or so it started. However, I watch entirely too much "Flip that House" and what started out as "No problem, I'll be happy to paint the two rooms" has turned into a classic 'might as well' project. As in, "If we're painting this, we might as well put up some matching towel bars in the bathroom... might as well change out the toilet too, and if we're going this far, we might as well put a new vanity and mirror up." So here are a few pics of the project as we go along. I should have started with pure before pics, but, I didn't think of it till I got into it... The bedroom needed some spackling for the cracks that are inevitable in a 60 or 70 year old plaster house. The bathroom is much newer but did need some upgrades. Mom wouldn't go for the travertine marble steam walkin shower, so, here is whats been removed so far.

Try to top this Linda! hah!

In the credit where credit is due department, Sue has been doing a lot of this too mostly on the design and picking stuff out end though, so far.

Jim

Jim usually has a smile on his face. I was messing with my flash and took this in the kitchen during my graduation party.

I'm walkin, yes indeed I'm talkin

I finally graduated and got my Masters Degree today! Here are some pics from the ceremony and at the little get together at home afterwards. I missed my dad today, wishing he was here to share it. I know how happy he would have been for me and how much he would have eaten up being at the ceremony and party.

The lighting in Schwartz Theater stunk for picture taking. This is the only one from inside that came out...



Sue took this pic. We're so serious all the time!


Sue was messing around with the camera and got this one of our good friends the Nadkarnys and us in the kitchen


Here's the serious graduation pose.

It was a dark and rainy/foggy night...

Some times it gets foggy, and along an empty road or side street, you can see all these cones of light working their way through the fog. The other night it was foggy and just barely drizzling down. Here are a few different views of a road right down the street from me, all from the same raw file. The color image is pretty true to how it looked, but I like the black and whites. The b&ws seem more believable and mysterious. In the second b&w, I cropped out the puddle. I think I like the one with the puddle better.

More Alamo Pics

Two different views of the same spot.

San Antonio Pics

It was grey and nasty for the time I was there last week. Here are some pics from my room, and the Alamo...




The Texas Professional Photographers Association was coming to town the day I left, they turned on the lights for them for a day or two before.


I tried to catch this as the Red light turned green.


This seemed like a black and white shot to me


You can see how grey it was the day I was at the Alamo. The plants kind of 'pop' though...

Wicked R Ranch Speed Racing Photos

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The Wicked R Ranch did a Speed Show thing today. Mary's friend Cindy told me about it, so, I took some pics of Cindy's niece (and the other riders) . Horses and people, you can't beat em for exciting, dynamic pics. These are some of the best of ~ 5 gigs worth of pics. Yes, that's a lot of pics!