Quality time...

with Daddy!

Michael wanted to target shoot with his bb gun and Daddy's help!

He acts like he knows what he is doing, lol...and yes he shoots left-handed!

Daddy and Jake watching!

It was 60 degrees out this afternoon and a bit chilly!

Showing Michael where he is hitting the target.

Finally hit the red bullseye!

Do y'all think this boy loves his DAD!!

Jake has to get into the action too...here he is telling Daddy off or another words sassing!

Enough sassing...time for ACTION!! ATTACK mode!!

Jake has turned out to be such a wonderful dog...we all love him so much!

We say he is Michael's dog but in all honesty he is a true family dog and loves us all equally...He has also had a hard time with Scarlett leaving us and has been pouting right a long with me...But with Fred home this weekend he's perked up a bit and seems to have his bounce back!

We all love spending time with Daddy!!

Kindergarten ~ September 2008 ~

Here's our boys first School Photo!

Kindergarten ~ September 2008 ~ 5 yrs old

He sure has the cheesiest smile I've ever seen (grin)! Now to bad Momma didn't get his hair cut before picture day, Ekk!!

Photo Challenge # 25 ~ Low Light

This weeks photo challenge is hosted by Amy and she has asked us to take...

Low Light ~ Night photos!

Below are my attempts at low light...

The Moon at 5:30am just before setting in the West!

I used a monopod instead of tripod that is why it is not a very sharp photo!

My boy snoozing away and Nope even with the racket of tripod and camera I did not wake him...he's in dream land! I didn't use a flash and had just the light from Michaels 40 watt lamp in his room...

Kit Cat looks a bit annoyed with me but I think he is just generally annoyed all the time...he was laying at Michaels feet and again I just had the 40 watt lamp for light...

I went outside the other night and took photos of the moon and got this photo...Not sure what I did to get this but I thought it was cool...Michael thought it was a star when he saw the photo but I told him No it's the Moon...

Thank you Amy for a wonderful challenge...

Photo Therapy...

I needed some photo therapy today...

Ms. Karin M. dared me to try for a photo of Michael...the particulars being a shot of his beautiful brown eyes, sometimes green but today brown...If you haven't seen the recent photo she took of her daughter jess's eye please go check it out...click here She used her Macro lens and I was just in awe...So below is my attempt using 28-105mm lens...NOT macro...These are cropped but other than that I did no editing...

What I don't understand is Karin M. says she has no patience and is awed by my butterfly photos...well I have news for her she's got all kinds of patience if she can get the photos she does of her daughters...I had enough patience with Michael for 4 photos, lol...yep that is all I could handle...I'd prefer butterflies any day....

After that little photo session I went on to something I could handle....

Butterflies!

Then I noticed something interesting...

Do y'all remember the photos of the Green Lynx spider with her egg sac that I took awhile back?

Well her babies hatched...and My OH My she has a bunch of babies...

They're so tiny...

Okay on to why I needed photo therapy....

I made a decision last night that it is time for us to say goodbye to Scarlett. This morning I made an appt. for the vet and tomorrow morning we shall say goodbye to our sweet girl....

She's been with me for 13.5 yrs and I will miss her...we've been through thick and thin, goodtimes and bad...She's been a good dog and a great buddy!!

Bless you Scarry for all you been to me! I love you sweet girl!

Photo Challenge # 24 ~ Macro

This weeks photo challenge is MACRO....

Below are the best I could come up with...The wind has been blowing all week and I was not to pleased. I kept waiting for it to die down and I finally just gave up....

If you would like to see everyone elses photos please visit our

Photo Challenge Blog

From what I've seen so far there are some really fantastic photos!!

Just a few photos from the Yard...

I went outside today to get a photo of a Monarch butterfly and it seems the birds were enjoying themselves too...

Chipping Sparrow...

Be prepared to see a lot of photos of these as they love my feeders!

Caroline Wren (above and below)

These little wrens make me laugh, they are so nosey. Always checking things out. I've caught them in my stock trailer and today they were checking out the TV antenna.

A Monarch being attacked my another butterfly...

I love the monarch's but the only time I see them down here is when they are migrating...and the little butterfly was having none of this big guy invading his territory either...

Aransas Wildlife Refuge November 9 2008

I needed some Photo therapy so this past weekend Michael and I made a trip over to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Austwell Texas...

We saw so much wildlife and had a beautiful day...Below are just a few photos...

Mom are you coming or what?

A view of Dagger Point.

A nine banded Armadillo.

A caterpillar but not sure what species, it is not in my books. Michael actually spotted it in the ground cover and it was tiny...My son has a good eye!

Great Blue Heron

A Great Egret

There were alligators all over the place...The area is in a drought and the water is drying up so the alligators are moving together in the few watering holes that are left...These two we spotted on the coastal canals on one of the walking trails...

Julia butterfly
This butterfly was fast and it was windy
So not to many great photos of her but
I had to show you the colors, beautiful!

Wild Turkey

If you click on the above photo you should be able to count approx. 24 alligators. This was taken at a place called Jones lake but what you see there is about all the water that is left. I was stunned at the amount of alligators in one spot...


LOL...Are you taking my photo? ARE YOU?

I'm outta here....The End!

There are a lot more photos on my flickr site...and after putting those up on flickr I noticed I missed a few, yikes, lol...

Wendy's flickr photos

I've also been trying to upload a slide show of Michael and what he was doing while I was taking photos but I haven't been able to get it to upload yet...so bare with me...

Have a wonderful week!