Happy Thanksgiving!

View from the ground of Cat in the Hat in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, 1996.

Tuesday's Photo: The Pilgrim

My favorite pilgrim home from school!

Wednesday's Photo

Friday's Photo

We had a nice indian summer here in central Ohio today, and I took full advantage of it tonight as I enjoyed the comfort of my deck, sipping a well-deserved glass of wine. Oh how I wish it would last.

Here's the view from below.

Monday's Photo

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Thursday's Photo

I've always wanted to post a daily photo on this blog, whether there was writing or not accompanied with it, but of course it just became one of those things that became overwhelming and I didn't follow through.

Well I really would like to start that up again and stick with it. I can't promise that they will all be good, or exciting, or museum-worthy or even self-promoting. I just want it to be like a photo essay of daily life and what surrounds me.

So first up: one of the last few blooms on my hydrangea plant. I see it everyday, and I wanted to remember what it looked like when I'm dreaming about spring in January.



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Photo Shoot: 9/25/09

Today was the day I needed a break. I needed to get some mojo back; work on new ideas and get some new work going. Even though I have production work to do, I needed to stop thinking about that today and release a little tension by doing something creative. I have been cranking out the same things for the past couple months now, recycling old photos, old patterns, and it is getting really old to me. I feel like my products are getting stale. My kids were both off of school today, so I asked my older son who loves photography, if he wanted to come with me on a little adventure to look for something to take a picture of. And we found plenty.

We live in Northern Franklin county, pretty close to the beginning of Delaware County which is much more rural than our neighborhood. We pretty much live in suburbia thanks to good schools, safe streets and affordable homes, so it's fun to venture outside of it whenever I can because frankly, if I didn't have kids, I just wouldn't be living here.

So when we reached Delaware County, we pulled off the busy highway of Route 23 and got some great shots of the old Circle L Motel. And then a little ways down the road we pulled off onto what may have been private property due to what the sign read:


Warning: Crooks and thieves will be shot on the spot. Alarm will sound

It was starting to freak my son out a bit, but I just said, "Hey that's what an adventure is!"

After the barn and the motel, we headed back to an old cemetery that we've both been wanting to see, and got a little sad over the amount of small children buried there from the 1800s. CJ shot a video of that. He wanted to take all of his still pictures today with our old Pentax analog. I remind him constantly how to use it, and he's getting better with focusing, but the concept of adjusting the aperture and the shutter speeds seems to trip him up, so I have no idea until we get the film back how well his shots will be. He prefers film over digital. Can you imagine... an 8 year old preferring film over digital?

Anyway, it felt good to get out and get the shutter going. Here's a couple of my faves from today's photo shoot:

Columbus from the pavement

Yesterday we all went as a family to the Columbus Art Museum to catch the last day of the Charles Burchfield exhibit, and then went exploring around the city a bit. Having been city dwellers for quite some time before moving to Ohio, my husband and I really like to get out of the suburbs and hit the dirty pavement once in a while. While Columbus is by far the cleanest city we've ever explored, it has some interesting nooks and crannies when you just walk the streets taking in the sights. Here's some I found:

Stay for the Buffe

I was back in the motherland again---Zanesville, for those who are not familiar with my posts about my parent's hometown---for a family reunion this time. After a long day of catching up with relatives I hadn't seen in years, my mom, me and the kids were exploring the downtown searching for this old paddle boat that I used to ride on when I was a kid. It's called "The Lorena". I loved riding that boat when I was a kid. Me, a Jersey shore kid, and I thought this paddle boat going down the Muskingham River was the coolest thing.

Anyway, a short walk from the Lorena was a little area of shops and a small train-car themed restaurant. And it gave me yet another classic shot of Zanesville:

Today's Photo

Morning dew on the leaves of a strawberry plant.

Today's Photo

Train parts of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railway.



Specs:
Canon xSi
18-55mm lens
Colorized

Today's photo

The door to the round table?



Photo specs:
Panasonic point and shoot
Enhanced in photoshop

Today's photo

Taken with a really crappy camera phone, but I like the perspective and the colors.

Today's Photo

Sharing just because he's so damn cute. And one of the first photos with my brand new toy. Oh, the joys!