Am I the only dad in the world whose kid plays dead whenever dad's holding a camera?

A bench by the basketball courts/hockey rink near my house.

Trees!

A new age is born w/ the addition of the Olympus E-500 and Zuiko 14-42mm lens.

Patchy grass up the dam into darkening skies.

Extreme macro of a very tiny unknown exploded seedpod.

Marcia took this through the fence at some farm market while I was in the greenhouse looking for full shade perennials.

A picture of Miles above the Caesar Creek dam outlet.

A birthday present from Miles photographed on top of an old picnic table near the Caesar Creek dam.

This, apparently, is how they roll at the Columbus Zoo. To be fair there was a lot of contruction and remodeling going on (none of it anywhere near this, however, which was near one of the wolf exhibits, as I recall). Hopefully that's why most of the exhibits I wanted to see were closed and there were a lot of long dead end walks where you have to backtrack the whole winding ass way you came and walk, once again, past the sad tiny enclosures full of mud and feces where terribly sad looking animals curl completely still with their ass to the public.

Columbus Zoo, 4.2.08. This was one of the few animals who was:
1. Not part of a closed exhibit
2. Outside and visible
3. Not behind chainlink fence or metal screens
4. Observed through glass actually clean enough to take a picture through
5. Not sleeping with butt pointed at spectators