getting ready for school

(i saw him doing this...i just had no idea he was filming himself!)

yesterday morning

7:10 a.m. about 18 degrees out.
i watched from my bedroom window...in bed, but olivia went outside and got this shot.
(what makes this more remarkable...if you know olivia...is that she was even up at all.)
thank you, peanut.

black panthers

practice time and a little bit of saturday’s game.
sam is number six.
it doesn’t look like it...but they do actually get it in the basket sometimes.

zombie

found this on our photo booth.
probably taken while they were supposed to be doing homework.
but a little insight on the skeleton zombie costume.

red

my neighbor, carol, has lamented that color-wise, this fall has been pretty dull.
and for the most part, i agree. but then there’s this.
a japanese red maple we received as a wedding gift from our friend jim.

$9.95

at anthropologie.
yes, you read that right. honestly, i think i bought it solely because i was in shock
that i actually found something there that was marked down that low.
the fabric did catch my eye. and i thought, how bad could it be?
(to anyone who sees me today...im really not expecting an answer to that question.)

post-halloween update

a little late, i know.
and although we didn’t get too many photos (read:none) of the actual event,
brian did take some of our display with his “real” camera.
if we get any cool ones, i’ll post them later.
a huge thank you to aunt sheryl and uncle john for passing out the candy
and manning the fog machines. couldn’t have done it without you.
i saw a lot of dorothy’s this year. which surprises me because
i think it’s such a weirdly scary movie for kids.
but hey, i walked around town with a skeleton zombie...so what do i know!

penumbra

brian williams said it last night during election results...and i had to look it up.
the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
i forget just how he used it in a sentence...but i liked the word.
i feel like today, we came out of the penumbra and into the light.

vote

like anyone could forget.
awesome images found at designforobama.org.
and like olivia says...go OBMA!