Treasure Mt. Lake!

So this was my lake for six weeks, the thermometer kept saying the temp was 72 but it definitely was NOT! It was so dang cold but once you got in and got use to it, it felt great. If you notice the two white dots on either end of the lake those are the milk cartons we used to mark the mile swim. You had to swim from one to the other and back, 9 times to earn the mile swim! We had a couple of kids do it with Lucy the moose about 20 yards away :) The lake at the deepest was about 7 feet and that was in the middle. Perfectly clear water until the scouts jumped in and muddied it up. All in all, it was a great time and I'll miss swimming in the near freezing water!

Silver Lake Panoramic

Some images from my trip to Houston!

Sorry these are so out of order!

 Sierra with the pot man.

 My favorite picture of Anna, sorry it's so green though...I really need to fix it.

 Sadie, Sierra and Audrey on the fairy island.

 Emma's rolling baby idea!

Avery as a bear or chipmunk

 I made Katie into a fairy! Thanks Emma for taking the picture!

 This was the best, Storie wanted some money so we made a deal with her...We could take her picture for an hour straight and then she would get her dollar! She didn't find us funny but after about 2 minutes mom gave in and Storie got her money!

 She's awesome!

I just love this kid!

 Grandpas and granddaughters are so dang cute!

 I love these next four...

 Twins.

 I think she was suppose to be a bird...

 He sure does love having his picture taken :)...

Up to bat.

Camera Obscura

We found this cool shadow thing on our bedroom wall one sunny afternoon and couldn't figure out what it was until I remembered from one of my photography classes a little thing called camera obscura. Camera obscura is what started photography. Makes no sense right.
Camera obscura is a flipped image projected onto the wall. So I flipped this last image. It's our apartment complexes parking lot.

Cool huh?

Storm photos

This one is for you mom, notice the large dark tombstone? Yep, it does say Davis.

Poor guy.

But at least he has some friends to weather the storm with.

Final for History of Photography

For my final project in History of Photography I choose Alfred Stieglitz's work to follow. I fell in love with his series on hands, so I used Maynor's hands to emulate Stieglitz's work. He did a light on dark and I choose to do the opposite, dark on light. So I broke down Maynor's life into four segments, youth, teen years, early adulthood and adulthood. For his youth I had him clasp his hands to represent what a good child he had been (usually good for a kid). For his teen years he wanted his hunting rifle in the picture since he used to go water fowl hunting before school every morning with his friends. For his early adulthood he had been into wood working and made the vase himself. He fell in love with climbing so I had him play with climbing rope to represent that time period.

Kinda late but some images from City of Rocks

Maynor made a new friend! Lol, poor Maynor (he's a germaphobe) Ky had a cold and was dripping with snot the whole weekend, had Maynor super stressed out! Wandering around.
Corey on roller coaster.

Ky entertaining himself.

Maynor belaying.

This is how you keep a kid entertained while his mom is climbing, give him a pringles can let him figure out how to open it.

Maynor on Pigmy's got stoned. It's a fun climb, it's a 5-10 and almost completely smooth.

Jentri on Pigmy's got stoned. This is her favorite climb and she did the initial lead.

Maynor on bread loaves. This was a cam climb.

Keeping Ky entertained with Maynor's helmet. He's such a cute kid. (although thinking about it now, Maynor really should have had his helmet on.)

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

~John Muir~