I had visitors!

Miss C and Mister C 1 a photo by Elli :-) on Flickr.

These two sweethearts came to visit me today. They just came (and brought their mom) to see us - not for formal photos - but I took their pictures anyway. They are so sweet! They're such happy little people! They are 4 months old, and cute, squishy, cuddly...so precious!

Just a couple kid snaps

My dad told me today to keep sharing kid shots. I realized that I hadn’t been taking many pictures of the kids, so I decided not to keep waiting for the right moment to get the big camera out. I didn’t even get off the couch! I just went ahead and took a couple cell phone snaps while the boys were just hanging out. The girls weren’t in positions that would allow me to capture them, and I don’t know where Dale was. But here are 4 of my handsome boys.

These guys are just so cute!!

I have to laugh at Nathan though – I don’t think I have more than 3 photos of that child where there is no motion blur. When he was just a year old my dad called him “Wild Man.” Boy, was that the truth! I don’t think he’s still for 5 consecutive seconds!

Thanks for dropping by!

I followed the Daily Shoot assignment to the letter

TDS not seen in a while a photo by Elli :-) on Flickr.

The Daily Shoot assignment was, "Go somewhere you've not been to in a while and make a photograph of something that grabs your interest."

I haven't been to my cleaning cupboard in a long time. I found my feather duster in there! Cool! Note that I did not actually use the duster to dust anything. The assignment didn't say I had to. :-0

Sorry there was no post yesterday.

We still struggled with internet ALL day long, and it was even worse in the evening, so even if I had taken pictures yesterday, I probably wouldn’t have been able to post my blog. So today you get two! (If Qwest is up long enough to post.)

We saw flaky, flurry things today. At first I thought that maybe it was ash from…um…well…the neighbor burning? brush fires? a volcano? But the “ash” kept melting as it hit the car and ground. Some were suggesting that it might be snow, but tomorrow is the first day of spring – it wouldn’t snow on me today, would it? So I knew it couldn’t be snow.

Then I realized what it was.

Ken had been sanding sheetrock. It was sheetrock dust!

(Yes, I know it was melting, but this is my story, and I’m sticking to it!) When Ken quit sanding and doing sheetrock, the snow quit. See? Sheetrock dust!

I just have to say…

…that Qwest is on my naughty list right now. About a month ago we “upgraded” to the higher speed internet that they offer. We were routinely getting very slow internet, so I called them to complain. They told me they would switch me to a less congested server. Problem solved, right? Not exactly. Our speed did improve a bit, but we started having more and more problems with our internet being down. And down. And down. So I called again. They said, “we are expanding in your area – be done by the end of the week.” Well, I realize it’s not quite the end of the week, but I have battled this issue with my work (I work at home, online) all week long, and it’s gotten so bad this evening that we’ve been down more than up. I have a lot of work left to do, but I can’t get through one article without the internet going down. All of this has me just a bit frustrated. Ergh.

So…how ‘bout a cell phone photo. I took this one of Queen Cheerio after Ken (silly man) said, “Get out of my chair, Cat!” I had to laugh at that. Cheerio obviously believes that this is her chair.

So…tomorrow I will have to catch up the work I couldn’t do today. But I guess that’s just the way it goes. Thanks for stopping!

Just for fun

Spring WILL come!

Playing with water and  food coloring…

One more try with oil and water

I really want to get the oil and water thing right! This first one isn’t the same sort of result that Sandra and Alison M. got, but I like it because it sort of looks like a frog to me.

The colors in this one are more muted, but the oil drops seem to have nice “character.” This one was taken more from the side than straight overhead. I like the depth of field that creates.

Here’s a kid shot – Fancy spent some time this morning teaching Caleb how to draw, and he practiced for quite a while. I love the artistic pursuits!

(Taken with my htc Incredible and Retro Camera)