Carvers unite!

Pre-carnage anticipation.  Note that the two pumpkins in front were grown in our own garden!

Tuning In

Got our beautiful "inherited" piano tuned today.  Sounds great!  Well, apart from a couple of broken strings... Hopefully those get fixed next week.

Violinista!

A feather in her cap

A Bear-Faced Lie

Her sister did books . . . apparently I's trying bears!

Uh-oh

So, this thing happened...

Pie'd Green Tomatoes

As close as we realistically get to a pie cooling on the window sill...

School Time

OK, so the post rate has been very low.  We'll try to get back in the habit.  Maybe I need some guest posters ;-).

SCHOOL TIME!

First up this week, M headed out for the first year of Kindergarten this week, and the first time riding the bus to/from school!

Ready to go

First time on - she did very well!

 Waiting for bus, day two.

 Think the backpack is big enough?  For her lunch?

Isla waiting to "take a picture" of Margot's bus.

I's turn to start a new school is next week...

Cape Cod Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm over the Bay, seen from East Sandwich on June 24, 2013. Had to work on the technique for a while, but the storm was obliging and the air between us and it was clear. Winning formula is to have a long shutter speed (e.g. 30 seconds) to give the greatest chance of catching a flash, but a high f-stop (e.g. f-10) to catch detail in the lightning (and so that the hand-held 30-second exposure didn't having moving, blurry, weak-lit foreground objects).

These have had no processing - JPGs off of my Rebel T2i and EF 28mm 1:1.8. I have RAW copies which I can play with more later.

The following two were earlier attempts with a low f-stop so they lose detail of the lightning, but show more context of the storm over the water.  Similar shots with bigger lightning strikes just washed out (though they show some interesting reflection artifacts, I think, in the lens).

Choices, choices

Margot: (trying to pick which mac and cheese to have for lunch) Eeny, meenie, miney, mo.  Catch a tiger by the toe.  Ellie Hoffens, let him go.  Eenie, meenie, miney, mo.

You've gotta watch out for that Ellie Hoffens!