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My Foot is Dirtier!

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My Foot is Dirtier!
Photo-A-Day #1577

Cautionary warning. Even though kids showing each other their dirty feet is cute, don’t let them do it on a rock. Eva’s got a little egg on her head because of this photo. More later.

Today Allison, Eva and I went for a cook-out at our friends Derek and Michelle’s parent’s house. Derek and Michelle and their son Nicholas live out in South Dakota.

Derek, Michelle and Nicholas

Derek is a VP of Development out at a college in South Dakota. They only get to come home once in a while. When they do they do a party where a lot of people can get together at once. This time it was a nice relaxing cook-out.

At the cook-out our friends Neil and Andrea, Steve and Erin and their kids as well as Derik and Sarah and their kids were also there. We had a really nice time playing with the kids, watching the kids and making sure the kids didn’t get hurt as kids do. We almost made it the whole time but at the last moment we I was taking photos of Eva and Nicholas and Nicholas picked up his foot and was showing it to Eva. I encouraged Eva to show Nicholas her feet. Well the two of them tumbled back onto a the rock, Nicholas landed on top of Eva and she got a little egg on her head. I felt so bad too. But she is okay, just a little crying and her first bump, sure it won’t be the last.

Hanging with the boys was fun, catching up with everyone and their lives, it was a good party.

The Boys

We had a photo taken of the guys from High School and their families. There was Me and Allison and Eva, Neil and Andrea and Derek, Michelle and Nicholas. I hope that we can get a shot like that each time we catch up as a group. Thanks Kathy for the shot.

High School Friends and Families

Before Eva’s little fall she was having a great time playing with a set of oversized badminton toys as well as a huge volleyball. She had a great time playing with all the other kids and she got really worn out.

Funny Faces

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Uncooperative Cows

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Uncooperative Cows
Photo-A-Day #1565

Things are looking much brighter today than yesterday despite the gloomy weather outside. Today when I picked up Eva from my Aunt Corrine’s house I saw that the cows were out in the pasture across the street. I’ve tried and tried to catch these cows ever since I totally missed a fantastic opportunity about a year ago when I drove by and saw the cows out in the snow. Their breath making steam as they chewed up whatever shoots they could find, some had the lightly fallen snow on their heads and noses and the scene was idyllic. I’ve come across many scenes like this when I am without my camera.

There was another time where I was driving to work and I looked over at a small island and saw a small deer on the tip of the island bending to take a drink, it was early in the morning and the mist was everywhere. I was on the opposite side of the road on a highway with no way to get back to take the show. So I used a little trick that I learned from Ben Barnhart, who talked at work. As he was growing up he didn’t always have money for film so his father told him to take a mental picture. But his father wasn’t just telling him something to shut him up about lack of film, he meant take a real mental picture. Look at the scene, frame it in your mind and capture that one perfect shot. The photographer said that because of that practice of taking mental pictures his physical photography improved. I’ve tried to do that at times when I’ve had a camera and not had a camera. Just stop frame a shot and snap it there in my mind. I can still see those cows in the field and that deer on that island.