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This weekend we had big plans to attend Great Grapes. Unfortunately it has been one hundred degrees with a heat index making of one hundred ten. Definitely too hot to be outdoors drinking. We chose instead to do a little gift shopping, a little housekeeping and some reading. Around four o'clock a big storm blew in and cooled things down to a muggy eighty degrees. Patrick and I headed to Kinder Farm Park for a walk. I love to walk there. The trail is just hilly enough to feel like you are working a bit and the scenery is beautiful.

Some parts of the trail are out in the open.

Some parts are wooded and shady. (You can see all the debris from the storm.)

The farm as seen from the far side of the park.

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I have not been taking as many photos as I usually do. It is too hot to do much outside. With temperatures and humidity in the upper nineties Oliver and I are spending much of our day indoors. The room we hang out in is small and not well suited to photography. I have also been a little bored with the same old shots. Today however I found myself longing to take photos. Since the camera has not been out as much as it should Oliver was totally intrigued and kept racing towards it. My toy was much more interesting than his. I grabbed this shot just before he grabbed the camera.

Those eye just melt my heart!

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This weeks Digital Photography School assignment is "In The Kitchen". The assignment had been in the back of my mind but I just couldn't think of the shot I wanted. Then after making minestrone soup this afternoon I was cleaning up the cutting board and inspiration hit. The end of the celery was flower like so we had a quick photo shoot.

straight out of the camera

black and white


I submitted the black and white as my entry.

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We found out about a year ago that Max is allergic to almost everything. His dog food is make from herring, sweet potato and oats and that seems to be working well for him. If we add other ingredients to his diet he gets itchy and his ears and face swell. Finding treats is difficult. At first I spent a fortune buying dehydrated sweet potato treats, then I started dehydrating them myself. After dropping a piece of raw sweet potato on the floor we realized that he liked it and so did Sophie. So now that the outside temperatures are in the nineties (dehydrating requires running the oven at two hundred fifty degrees for six hours) we have been just giving them raw sweet potato. Last week I was out of sweet potato and Max really really wanted something. I looked in the veggie drawer and found carrots. It couldn't hurt them so we tried. Max loves them....

Sophie isn't quite sure.

Kate and Matt decided last week that they would adopt....

(photo by Kate, edited by me)

meet Luna Lovegood.

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On Sunday Oliver will be ten months old. It has been very hot here and we have not been able to be outside for very long. We braved the heat for a few minutes to get some ten month photos this morning. I am hoping to be able to got some "studio" shots next week.

Did you notice the post number? Only five more post to go!!

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My first attempt at photo restoration.

This photo was taken in 1954 (photographer unknown). It is of my father in law receiving an award for being the Soldier of the Year. He is the one in the center, shaking hands. The soldier to his right had been taped over and was missing an eye. There was tape residue in the lower left corner and staples in the bottom.

(If you click on the images you can see them larger.)

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While we were in Gainesville we visited the butterfly museum at the University of Florida. I could have spent hours there. It was magical to be in a huge room full of fluttering butterflies.

The butterflies loved Andrew. While I was busy taking pictures else where he had as many as four butterflies on him at one time.

I tried and tried to get a photo of the big blue butterflies that just never seemed to sit still. I had given up when Patrick told me he found one just sitting with its wings spread wide. It was on me! I slowly handed him the camera and he snapped this shot. Not really flattering for me but the butterfly looks great!

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