Sunday, July 28, 2013

So...It's been a while.


Sometimes I put things on this blog. Sometimes they’re nice things. Sometimes people like reading them, but the frequency with which I write these things is erratic. I think I’ll practice being scheduled and predictable about this whole blog thing. I elect Sunday evenings to be the night that I post something, anything, on my blog. After all, in two months or so I will be out of the country, and because I am blessed enough to have people that love me securely planted in my life, I will have to share my escapades with them via pictures and stories and other such fluff. So here goes, practice post number one, complete with a supplement of unrelated pictures. They're my favorite pictures I've taken so far with my brand new Nikon D3200 which my beautiful parents got me for my twentieth birthday (Thanks, guys!!!)
My mother has one of the most beautiful faces.

This dog is with us for a while longer. We're enjoying the time we get to spend with the old girl.

So. I focused this picture entirely with my zoom lens. I hadn't yet discovered how to focus the proper way. Let me just tell you, it was not easy.

We're washing our fruits and veggies in wash basins since we're cooking out on the porch all summer.

My dad got my mom a camera one Tuesday. She used to be an avid amateaur photographer pre-children/family. We changed that for her. But now we're grown.

My brother's beagle runt is too photogenic.





A family friend, teaching me something. 

My dog is too cute. Even if he is old and freaks out about leaving a gnawed cob of corn unburied in the yard and never will be fully house-trained, I still love him.




My brother looks this good after demolition. In fact, I think this is the roughest he will allow himself to look.