Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Pumpkin Patch Color Accent

Taken on Sunday's trip to the local pumpkin patch to pick out our victims for this year's carve-fest. I set the camera for color accent, selected the orange of the pumpkins and shot a few snaps. This one ended up being the best of the bunch and I really like how the orange "pops" in the photo.

I will have to play around with the color accent and color swap settings some more to see what kind of neat trick images I can generate.

Happy Halloween!

Check that last post, this is my best pumpkin I've ever carved. It came out beautifully and is really pretty scary looking in the dark with the orange glow behind it.

It looks alot less mean in the daylight though.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

My Best Pumpkin Ever

Halloween is coming which means more pumpkin carving and I'm excited. I also get to play with my smoke machine and will get the stereo thumping out creepy music to freak out the kids (but not too much!).

I didn't used to like Halloween so much but I'm warming up to it as I get older and my children start to grok what its about and how much fun they have dressing up.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Meditation from a Tomato Cage

This was more of the fun from Saturday when Grady found the tomato cages and thought they were a great toy. He looks like he's praying and stayed like this for about a minute. The video of him standing up in this and turning around and around is pretty funny too.

That kid is just an incredibly funny and inquisitive little guy, It was great fun to watch him work through how to get in and out of the cage. Great and amazing really. He's growing up so quickly that sometimes I just want to hold him and keep him just the way he is right now.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Cage Baby

This was totally of his own doing, I happened to have my camera and snapped a few dozen photos and a couple of short videos. He thought the tomato cage was a great toy.

He's such a sweet and wonderful and funny little boy. Sometimes I wish we could keep him like this forever (not in the cage, the inquisitive and funny little guy part).

When we went to Ikea and he got out of the stroller, he was barrelling through the store like a bull in a china shop. And his run is a bouncing gait that just makes me smile thinking about it. He's a great kid!

Monday, October 16, 2006

MiniCards from Moo

I got my free pack of MiniCards from Moo.com via their promotion for Flickr Pro members. today and they really are pretty neat and pretty and cool and all.

In retrospect I wish I'd chosen some different images but overall I really like how they look and really like the info on the back.

Now I just need to figure out what to do with them.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Nasty from Above

This big ol' spider nearly dropped on to my head last night when I took the veggie waste out to the composter. And then it sat and let me snap a bunch of pics of it.

It is just under two inches from tip to tip and really looked mean and nasty.

I did not squish him though. He's far too valuable in helping to keep the fly population under something resembling control around the composter.

Monday, October 09, 2006

You Got a Problem?

Almost a year ago now, Grady hasn't changed too much in the last year. He's grown up and added many new words but he's still the same wonderful and cute little kid.