Photostory Friday: 365 Weeks 49 & 50

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

Limping toward the finish line...

Day 334

December 3: I swear it's NOT made in Heaven.

This stuff sucked -- but it came in a cool bottle...

Day 335

December 4: Say hello to Maddie. I was her favorite target at the neighborhood Christmas party (I was also a wise man in the live nativity :).

But Maddie didn't want to throw snowballs at me -- she wanted to throw snow boulders at me.

And she did...

Day 336

December 5: A couple of Christmas ornaments.

(And a couple of inadvertent self portraits)

Day 337

December 6: Kinda says it all, doesn't it?

Day 338

December 7: I love Christmas lights.

(maybe not to the extent of, say, Clark Griswold...)

I love turning off all the other lights, and basking beneath the soft warm glow of the Christmas tree.

Day 339

December 8: Dawn + rolled down window + camera + 50 mph = this picture.

Day 340

December 9: "Fun" at the beginning band concert.

Day 341

December 10: Magi...as interpreted by Jim Shore.

Day 342

December 11: Eventually I may photograph every decoration in the living room....

Day 343

December 12: This Sunday afternoon, I was really feeling down. I felt like I hadn't taken a good picture in -- well, it felt like months. So, I determined to get in my car and drive, until something caught my eye.

On my way up the canyon, these gnarly old trees were everywhere.

It's hard to explain to someone else, and I don't know how it is for other photographers, but I feel that everything -- every time, everyplace, every moment -- has a picture locked inside of it.

Like a soul.

I don't always know what I'm going to find, but I always know when I've found it.

I took a hundred pictures of this scene, and eventually, I found it's soul.

Day 344

December 13: Have I ever told you how much I love my son?

Spending the evening with Matthew at the Jazz game, just the two of us (and 18,000 other fans), was a fantastic night.

Day 345

December 14: Day number 345.

Actually, let's call it what it really is: Day 710

I am so ready to be done with this little project.

Day 346

December 15: What it's all about.

Day 347

December 16: Happy Holidays, from all the people I work with.

I wasn't in the picture.

I was in the middle of the road.



Two more weeks.....

Photostory Friday: 365 Weeks 47 & 48

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

Day 320

November 19: Guitar. Again. Burning out. Glad this year is almost over...

Day 321

November 20: Evidently I missed another day. I'm finding it really hard to care at this point. Don't ever commit to taking a picture a day for TWO years.

Ever.

Day 322

November 21: Chris just pawn in Game of Life.

Day 323

November 22: This little polynesian fish hook has been hanging from my rearview mirror for about ten years.

What hangs from your mirror?

Day 324

November 23: Armageddon.

To listen to the news reports, this was going to be a whopper of a storm. People left work early, they invaded the stores for survival supplies. They hoarded gasoline and food. I was prepared to eat one of my children, if necessary.

We got two inches.

Day 325

November 24: No matter what else you've done that day, you can't NOT take a picture of your little angel, asleep on the couch.

That's in the manual folks.

Day 326

November 25: Thanksgiving!

I LOVE Thanksgiving, and it saddens me to see it more and more overlooked each year.

This year, my caramel apple cider was the hit of the holiday. Let me know if you'd like the recipe.

Day 327

November 26: Up close and personal with one of my wife's latest crocheted creations!

Day 328

November 27: The last day of the regular college football season. Rivalry day. The cougars held strong for fifty nine minutes and fifty six seconds, and then....

Four seconds...

Field goal to win it...

BLOCKED!

Great game Utes. Have fun wallowing in the middle of the Pac 12.

I'm not bitter...

Day 329

November 28: Ample reward for shoveling the driveway, and the sidewalk, after the REAL snowstorm.

The one no one told us about.

Day 330

November 29: I love to shoot into the sun, on a crisp winter's morning.

Day 331

November 30: 'Tis the season for Christmas movies! Which ones are your favorite?

Day 332

December 1: Eye see you!

(sigh...is the year over yet?)

Day 333

December 2: Flying my spaceship out of the mouth of an ice monster.

Really.

Photostory Friday: 365 Week 46

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Day 313

November 12: Some people identify with generals or presidents or great athletes or philosophers or any number of other notable personalities.

Me? I identify with three characters: The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, Charlie Brown and my favorite character all -- Kermit the Frog.

Day 314

November 13: Yeah, we're still working on the family protrait...if we could just learn to smile...

Day 315

November 14: We had a houseguest for most of this week. This is Bella, and she's just as cute as she looks.

My philosophy, when it comes to dogs is the same as my philosophy on babies: they're a LOT more fun, when you can give them back.

Day 316

November 15: A truly rare photograph.

Bigfoot? The Loch Ness Monster? Child's play next to trying to find a sharpened pencil in our house.

Day 317

November 16: This didn't turn out quite the way I imagined it would -- I was envisioning an abstract amalgamation of autumn colors.

Instead, it just looks like potpourri.

Day 318

November 17: Emma crafting a personalized birthday card for my mom.

Incidentally, it was my mom's sixty-FIRST birthday -- not her sixty-SECOND, as I discovered, much to my chagrin.

Day 319

November 18: As if Thursdays are not hectic enough, along comes standard time, and takes away all of my evening light, making it that much more difficult to get a decent picture.

Soooo....when you're driving home, and the sunset is beautiful, and rapidly fading, you stop the first chance you get, and shoot it -- even if you have to shoot through a chain link fence.

Photostory Friday: 365 Week 45

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Day 306

November 5: When it's just you and dad...

Why get an extra bowl dirty?

Day 307

November 6: The end of Daylight Saving Time.

The last evening light for five months.

Day 308

November 7: A night of no sleep.

A raging abscess.

An early Sunday morning, emergency trip to the dentist.

Swelling, ibuprofen, lortab, vomiting....

Not the best day of the week.

Day 309

November 8: Matthew, putting the finishing touches on his Earth.

 I wonder if this is what it looked like when God did it?

I'll bet God clips his fingernails.

Day 310

November 9: I took a picture! I swear I did!
I know I did!

Of course, I was still on a lot of narcotics...

Day 311

November 10: This is how Chris "C's" it.

Day 312

November 11: Between the sore teeth and the "falling back" into the darkness of winter, my attitude could sure use a change of latitude.

About twenty degrees ought to do it.

Photostory Friday: 365 Week 44

Hosted by Cecily and Lolli

Day 299

October 29: For as much time as I've spent on the computer lately, I would have thought the keyboard would be a little less dusty.

There is honking in my head.

Day 300

October 30: Who knew you could say so much with your feet? I wish I could think of more to say about this shot, but my daughter is practicing the clarinet ten feet from where I'm sitting, and I'm losing my mind...

Day 301

October 31: A sure sign of the coming of winter: dusting off the old Wii controllers. Earlier this week I went to an actual batting cage...I hit more balls on the Wii...

It's not that I mind the clarinet, and Jordan is learning to play pretty well...it's just so...loud

Day 302

November 1: I'm fourteen times smarter than I was before I ate this candy.

Day 303

November 2: That guy there is a pretty good golfer.

At least he was before his kids deleted him from the Wii.

There is a gaggle of geese flying through my brain.

Day 304

November 3: The aborted first attempt at family pictures.

Honking...honking...honking...

Day 305

November 4: Getting closer...

...it's a work in progress...

Just like the clarinet.