Strawberry

I love strawberries. I never seem to be able to quite capture the deliciousness of them though.

Crystal, Karl and Rocco stayed over last night - we had a huge meal at the Olive Garden. Delicious. Rocco is adorable! 

Rocco

This is Rocco - Crystal and Karl's dog. They just announced their engagement - CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Prescription Pain

Warning: Rant ahead!!

So, today I got a prescription refilled. Gotta love this. About 2 years ago, my doctor gave me a prescription that she had tons of samples for because I didn't have insurance. For months she gave me samples. When I did have insurance through work, they wouldn't cover it for 11 months cause it was a pre-exisiting condition. So now, a year after that, I am excited cause it should be covered. Ha ha ha. Wrong. They want me to take a generic verison (which is not yet available.) So they say I should switch prescriptions instead. What a pain. So we just sucked it up and paid the $90.

Seriously, does this photo say $90 to you?

Broken Teapot

Previously I had posted a photo of the flowers that Boots had knocked off the kitchen table and shattered the vase of. Well, shortly after she knocked my Grandma Timperley's teapot off of our fridge and smashed it to pieces. These are only the big pieces. I have the rest of the china set, dinner plates, salad plates, bowls, teacups and saucers. But no teapot. :-( I have searched eBay and the internet to no avail. Guess the teapot is the largest and easiest to break!

A Picture Share!

I like this one of Bailey & Curns. It comes up on my Treo when Curns calls.

Bailey's Fan Club

Curns claims that Bailey has a fan club. He claims that my site gets more traffic when Bailey is on it, and that he has people asking when I'm going to take more photos of Bailey. (I think he was half-loaded when he said this.) If you visit the site mostly to see Bailey, please leave a comment!! You don't have to have an account to leave a comment on my site.

After the game...

This was right after finishing playing "the game." It doesn't have a name, but this is how it goes.

The teams are always Bailey vs. everyone else. Usually it is Jon and Curns playing. They stand in the kitchen, back by the fridge. Bailey stands in front of the 6 steps leading down to the family room (the goal). The boys kick a tennis ball around and try to get it past Bailey.

If the ball hits the family room floor, they get the point. If Bailey blocks the ball, she gets the point. She can catch it in the air, after one bounce, on the steps or steal it from them. Whoever hits seven points first, wins. The boys pass to each other, try to fake her out and use various methods of launching or rolling the ball with their feet.

They kick, Bailey grabs the ball and prances in a circle twice before releasing the ball for the next play. Play can be temporarily suspended when the ball gets soaking wet from dog drool.

Bailey usually wins.

Little Red Flowers

This will be the last one from the Butterfly House. The last one for now anyways!

Grandma Creta & Baby Butterfly

This little butterfly left his cocoon about 3 minutes before the photo. Grandma is about 45.6 million minutes old. (Give or take.) Crazy, huh?

Red Butterfly

Thought I would try something a bit different. The red in the flowers was about twice as vibrant in the original shot but I think it looks better toned down.

Big Flower, Little Butterfly

More butterfly photos - I like this purple one! Happy Valentine's Day.

Butterfly II

Same type of butterfly, different photo! I like this one because of the flowers. This could be my new favorite photography site.

A Picture Share!

Today we showed Jon's family Daktronics, where we work in Brookings. This is Jon in front of a video board, taken with my Treo.

Butterfly

I took about a hundred photos in the Sertoma Butterfly House today. It was about 85 degrees in there - what a great break from the SD winter! The butterflies were just beautiful! I will probably post more photos later. It was an awesome place to spend a few hours with hundreds of beautiful butterflies floating around our heads in a green, tropical environment.

Falls in Winter

Jon's mom, dad and grandma Creta came to visit. Of course we had to take them to the namesake of Sioux Falls!

Waterfall in Brazil

This is not my photo - it was taken by my dad in Brazil. He just got back today. It was his first time overseas and a great experience (and his first long trip with a digital camera). This photo is just like it was when it came out of the camera. I love the framing, blue sky, boats and lush green in the photo. What a beautiful scene - way to go dad!

I like flowing water shots. This water must be freezing - I like the way it looks with the snow on the ground. 

Rocks

I like the texture in these rocks.

Geese

The dark water and winter background made these geese look pretty bland, so I thought I'd try them in black and white. Shot with my 300 mm lens.

Berries

The sun was hitting these bright berries just right.

Cliff and Moon at Palisades

Doesn't the title say it all?

Flowing Water

Well, I know this is a "Photo A Day" not five photos a day, but I thought I'd make an exception this once. The camping trip went well. It was really cold, but the cabin was very warm and nice so it made up for it!

Night Sky

I have always wanted to try the long exposure at night photo. This one was the first one I tried - the shutter was open for 47 minutes. I had to adjust the levels in photoshop to make the sky darker. The sky had turned too light during that long of exposure.

Shadow

I was thinking about entering this for the "Shadow" speed challenge at DCP, but I think it would get creamed. It just isn't sharp enough. I didn't think that taking a picture of your shadow could be so hard. My camera wouldn't focus, and I couldn't be composing the photo and in it at the same time! The desk lamps also didn't cut it. We took down our super-bright aquarium light to use, but that washed out all of the shadows. *sigh*

It may be a crappy photo, but at least I took it today. :-)

Can't wait to go camping tomorrow. Beautiful scenery, fires, etc. Should make for some decent photos. However, it means that I will not get to process or post until Monday. So.... don't expect anything for a couple days.

Foam

More drinks photos - foaming beer.

Tall Beer with Olives

Jon and Curns are watching the Presidental address on Matt's new 52 inch TV. I'll be joining them soon - Jon forgot to bring a few beers. :-)

I thought that I needed to photograph the beer before I came. Jon built a bar in our basement, complete with shiny bar top, foosball table, dartboard, and mirrors behind the bar. I need to create some art for the bar, so perhaps my next mini-series will be drinks. We'll see.

Does anyone else put olives in their beer? I've heard it was a mid-west thing or maybe even a South Dakota thing. I am more of a wine drinker, but I like beer with olives.