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I’ve been playing around with HDR imagery as of late and decided to post several examples of the Daylilies (thx. Alana) in our front yard.

While I’m not completely happy with the way the turned out, it does give a pretty good example of what can be done with HDR.

In case you’d […]

The other night we were getting the kids ready for bed. Sophia was naked and doing everything she could to stay that way. She ran into her giraffe tent and laid face down, with Derek in hot pursuit. Derek latched his arms around her waste and proceeded to blow raspberries on her […]

Derek has had lots of firsts over the last few weeks, including first plane ride, first diaper change in a plane, first time to Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Zion National Park and to Grandma and Grandpas. (Sophia did all that last year). We even took him to a restaurant where we gave him a […]

It’s kind of nice, that it’s nearing the end of July and we still have some flowers alive in the landscaping.

Here’s a macro shot of a rather nice red flower (anyone know what this particular flower is called?):

Sophia was standing by my side while I took this picture, repeating: “Daddy, you takin pict-tur of da […]

You really can’t appreciate this, unless you have a boy

Has anyone missed us?? I don’t even know where to start; I hope this post doesn’t get too long!!

Thursday July 11th after work Kevin and Sophia went to an I-cubs game, which ended up not being such a great idea, since Sophia had no interest in watching baseball, even though she talks constantly […]

I went a little crazy downloading/buying games and applications tonight:

My apps so far:

AIM AOL Radio Band Crash Bandicoot Enigmo Evernote Exposure Google Mobile MixMeister Scratch Ap News NetNewsWire Pandora Radio Apple Remote Shazzam Sketches Super Monkey Ball Twitteriffic Yellow Pages

What a remarkable picture:

I would have expected it to be a Photoshop composition, but the fact it was posted to a Nasa website, gives it a higher level of credibility.

You can get the full story here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070205.html.

Already!?! Well not quite, but we have a lot going on in the next couple of weeks, so we had Derek’s 9 month check-up a couple of days early. He is a happy, healthy and very active 9 month old!! He is a whopping 30 inches tall (95%), he certainly is taking […]