Politician

Notice the use of verbal diarrhea! Haha
On a more serious note, I am more proud this than a lightning shot!!

Best Pinot in a while

This special little gnome brought us a gift from the Gods!!

This bottle has been sitting in our wine fridge for awhile now. We have been waiting for the perfect moment to drink it, but realized that there is no perfect moment. As long as you have good friends to enjoy it with any time is the right time. What a spectacular bottle!

Vote

The guy at ACORN said it was ok as long as he filled out an absentee ballot!

Zoo

This is one of a series of photos of this little guy running across a rope. This exhibit allows you to join the monkeys in their territory...they are running wild all around you, in the trees, on the hand rails...The pic below was set to be great until the guy in front of me jumped in at the last moment.

A Wallaby

This tree house right by the entrance is a great place for the kids to start.

Cameron's first visit to the zoo. He slept from the time we got there to the time we left! Maybe next time he can stay awake long enough to see the entrance. We didn't realize that the Phoenix zoo is rated in the top five for kids! Maybe Cameron can take advantage of that next time we go.

More house shots

These little buggers are not easy to get pictures of. They are more skittish than hummingbirds...and they are extremely fast when they want to be.

House shots

Sun coming through the blinds in our living room.

Cool textures from my tempurpedic pillow.

Let the BBQ begin!

Just from shots from around the house.

Holy S@%#

This giant grasshopper jumped out of the flowers (at my face) as I was watering them! Needless to say I made Spud Webb look like he had white mans disease!! After I restarted my heart, I found him hanging out on the fence of our carport. I couldn't get much closer...these were taken from about 18 inches. Two pictures, one with flash one without.

Downpour

Who says it doesn't rain in AZ!! This is taken from our porch (high and dry) as a very mean storm cell moved over the mountain in front of our house. At the time these two pictures were taken in was 97* and sunny!

Just messin around

Just some pics from around the house. The sunset pics were taken from our driveway the other night with the camera set on full auto...no adjustment to the color at all!!!

Night shot

A shot of a mesquite tree in my back yard...messing with the K white balance scale at 9:30pm

Sunset

In these photos I have started messing around with the white balance (Kelvin)

Thunderstorm

Here are some photos of a storm that was brewing in the southeastern part of town. It was my first attempt with the new camera. I tried a couple without the flash and a couple with. Hopefully I will keep improving and be able to catch my brother in terms of photo quality.

Hello blog world

This is my first official blog post! I guess I am a little behind the times, but better late than never. Since this is my first post I will keep it to just this message and try some more later.