Husband: Honey, what did you do with the storage shed?
Wife: Nothing.
Husband: Well you must have done something with it because I didn't touch it and it's not here anymore.
Wife: I didn't freakin' touch it!
Husband: Well it's not like the wind wadded it up into a whirling guillotine of glinting ferrous savagery and flung it down the street and parked it between two vans, leaving the vans almost completely unscathed!

More trees.

I'm starting to think I'm the only person who digs the trees.

Like lighning made of wood or like roots that the Earth puts into the Sky to hold on to it.

Don't

Sunset in St. Cloud, MN

I, in a previous post, mentioned the "visual non-sequitur" and, I think, what I really meant by that was a photograph that, by nature of what it is, has to be a direct representation of a real object and is still, somehow, abstract.

You can say whatever you want and it won't bother me because deep down I know that, no matter how much better than me you are, my kid is cuter than yours.

A rare view of a whole tree.

The price of copper is so high now that people are stealing these left and right here in Ohio. I've seen enough evidence just on my own to know the person/people stealing them in my area are in the industry. I have some, as yet, unproven theories about what they do and who they work for but I'm not going to make accusations until I've got some real concrete proof.

Mundane crap around the house makes for good pictures, I think.

Another brilliant accidently on purpose shot from Miles.

Find the bug. Find the 2nd one. Find the 3rd one!

Freaky grasshopper thing. Bet he's delicious!

He just turned 5. This was so long ago. *Sigh*

This is an older picture from an older model camera (like most of the others I've posted today) and so when zoomed in fully the details are kinda crappy. I don't care. I felt I needed to put this one up so you could play find the bug. Here's a tip, they're totally doing it.

Yeah! Crap floating on water is my idea of a cool picture. Want to make something of it?

If you get really close to the screen you can hear me being a dork.

Taking a picture of a giant kite while you are flying it is hard. Out of all the pictures I took this is the only one even remotely presentable.

It had been too long since I'd posted a picture of a tree until just now.

I love these sort of roadside places to enjoy autumn. There are lots of them in MN but I've not found too many in OH. This one had baby chicks in a corner of an old barn that was so rickety I think there was an inspector actually waiting impatiently outside for one more piece to fall off so he could condemn it. I recall that Miles was fascinated with the baby chicks until he realized that the floor he was standing on was precarious. I wanted to look at the chicks but figured if the floor was weak enough to worry a little kid I'd be better off standing back a bit.

Abandoned sandals at the park near our place. I though I had posted this before but a quick scan reveals I was incorrect. I find this picture creepy. I remember thinking it was sad, when I took it, that some poor girl had left her sandals behind. Later it occured to me that maybe they weren't forgotten. Even later it occured to me that the Centerville police station is about 15 running strides from this play area and I seriously doubt and kidnappers and perverts hang out there.

Practicing an homage to footloose.

One day they're all chubby faced and adorable and the next they're boosting cars.

Here's a seriously old picture of Lao Tsu. This was in the house in St. Cloud. Back when Miles was just a far off dream growing ever nearer. I see Rush Limbaugh's book is in there so he must be standing on the comedy section because I don't think I had a pill popping hypocrite section then.