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.

As we were looking throuh the pictures Miles took a few days ago we came upon this in the slideshow and Miles said to me "It's your seat without you in it." It was clear from how he said it that thought was behind why he shot the picture.

I believe this was taken by Marcia who was desperate to overcome her fear of bees enough to get a shot such as this.

Miles definately took this one because we suggested he look for letters in the grafitti on the benches.

He impressed me so much with some of the pictures he took a few weeks ago that we've decided to start letting him take his own pictures whenever I'm out snapping. We've given him the HP 945 but we still let him use the little Kodak from time to time. I might put some of his pictures up here. With Marcia and Miles switching cameras it's hard to determine who took which picture. Once we have that sorted we'll know if Marcia is really improving or if Miles is some kind of prodigy.

It's quite difficult to focus a mirror shot like this. Subsequently it's out of focus, but just barely. On this small web scale you can hardly tell.

Grass: 1
Flower: 0

Discovery: Blue tinted lips make you look more grown up.

Suki's getting old but she still has some life left in her.

First Day Of School:

Mission Complete!

Grade: A+
Bonus Collected: 100%
Exploration: 100%
XP Bonus: +10,000

Level Up!

Miles' most excellent self portait.

We put honest to god love into our cookies and we have the pictures to prove it.

This lone photograph, ladies and gentlemen, is the first (or the last in order of posting) of the 4th of July fireworks photos I'll be posting this year. I had over 250 photos and I narrowed it down through a few rounds to these 49 photos. Not all of them are great but there is something about each of them that I like very much. Many of them have been quickly cropped/zoomed but none of them have been digitally altered in any way and, except for things that may have been cropped out of the picture they are all posted here exactly as they were when they came screaming out of the camera and into my desktop at home. Each of these pictures was taken by either myself or my wife. Each is our property and is not to be used anywhere else for any reason without permission (like saying that would stop anyone from stealing them). The photos were taken over 3 different nights in Dayton, Centerville, and Greenville Ohio. I have temporarily changed the page background color so that you can actually see the edges of the photos (black on black... not easy to tell. black on very dark grey... slightly better.) and you can glide on down to the end for a handy little slideshow.