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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Art Concept Photography

Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People's Pictures

This art project by Sascha Pohflepp combines a Sony Ericsson k750i with a black case to let you take other people's pictures. The design works by recording what time you click the button to "take" a picture, then later on connects to the internet to scope out shots other people took with that same timestamp.

It takes a few hours/days for people to upload their pictures, so you won't be seeing anything instantly. But it's kind of neat, in a voyeuristic way, to what other people were up to when you were out being a dork using a camera that doesn't really work.

Now This is Hot Photography

A good photograph is both expressive and imaginative. This is both, in spades and with a big extra measure of SPROING tossed in for good measure.

Its sexy without being trashy (or overly trashy) and damned if I don't just love it.

Luminescent

Not much to add here, I just think this is a pretty nice picture of a flower.

Nande Air Flop

Because it needs to be posted again from time to time, just to remind myself why I so thoroughly love my dog. She's gotten alot bigger since this was taken but her playfulness and fun hasn't diminished in the least.

She's a wonderful companion and friend and I wish I could more easily spend my days playing with her and my two boys.

Someday.