Day 4

Today we kicked off a bed for staff in the garden. I found this sign, meant to direct kids to taste things.

Day 3

The parking lot at work got "cleaned up" for Dinner in the Woods, but they missed this little guy.

Day 2

Skunk Cabbage from my walk with Maddi. Some day spring will actually follow.

30 days: Day 1

Kennet replaced my old Nikon Coolpix with a new Canon A720 yesterday from Glazers. It was a nice experience all around walking to an actual camera store and talking to a real person before picking out this one. It turned out to be a sunny day and we stopped in the Cascade P-patch on the way home which was full of tulips and people's herbs.

I'm committing to 30 pictures in 30 days to reintroduce myself to taking photos. I used to do a lot of photography, starting with my Pentax K1000 that my dad bought me in high school (Kennet and I still have our twin K1000s). I more or less gave it up when Kennet and I starting dating because he puts considerably more effort into it than I do. When my old friend Rachel noticed on our Grand Canyon trip that I wasn't taking many photos - the fact that she noticed and commented on it --I felt like I was missing out on something. So K surprised me with the idea and here we are.

Here is day 1. I chose it because it represents a lot in my life right now. New shoes, meditation, a 10K, and a knee that doesn't hurt.

More

We've had some requests for a few more photos. Soon we'll post some from our GC float trip. . .

Before

DavidIn the car

During

After

David insisted on this door for some reason

Look

"I believe the most loving thing you can say to a person is “Look.” And the most loving stance is not a close embrace, but two people standing side by side, looking out together on the world.

When people learn to look, they begin to see, really see. When they begin to see, they begin to care. And caring is the portal into the moral world."
Kathleen Dean Moore


And for good measure, here is a gorilla.

Black And White (A.K.A. "Look at me, I'm soooo artistic")

I've recently learned a whole lot about editing B&W photos digitally. It started about the time I scanned, retouched, and printed the photo of Shelley's great-uncle's (great-uncle, I think) wedding. The Luminous Landscape has been a really great source of knowledge.

This last week I went back through all our Africa photos and found three that I had previously overlooked.

Enough talk. Pictures.