another new technique...

usually the point of good photography is to try to put things into focus....but sometimes it's fun to capture things out of focus too!  It usually drives me nuts but this time i was able to capture the photo just right...enough in focus to know what it is, but out of focus enough to make it interesting...

practice

Today i spent a little bit of time practicing my closeups and flower photos as well as my black and white editing.  I am such a fan of b/w photography but it's actually difficult to edit just right.  Some photos call for overexposure, others require filters to bring out certain colors as brighter white or darker black.  Either way this bright yellow flower created some good practice for me!

i was capturing some water beads on a piece of grass and the second i started to snap this grasshopper joined me.  He was so well behaved as i was within about 3 inches of him and there he just sat!  What fortune!!

sick babies

We are going to have a high water bill this month.  I have washed our son's sheets like 7x in the past 3 days, and have started using my daughter's pink sheets on his bed in between washings.  This poor kid can't catch a break. I guess he is like his momma in that when he gets sick...he gets sick.  I guess it's just a small stomach bug or something because there is no fever...just a lot of...mess...all over.  But his cute quotient has probably doubled since he's been sick.  His little sleepy puppy dog eyes are always begging to be cuddled, and his smiles are somehow bigger?!

edit...he has also become bipolar today...