Day 134

Todd was still less than happy about the amount of cleaning he'd have to do, but the fact that he remembered to pack an extra set of legs did mollify him a little bit.

Day 121

The hunt for the elusive white sphere had gone well thus far, but Indy's keen instincts sensed a trap ahead.

Day 101

Drake had finally managed to trap the giant lizard, but after falling into the trap himself, he knew that only one of them would leave alive...







We find geckos like this in the house on a semi-regular basis. This little guy fell into a can that we had stored up on a shelf & couldn't get out, and just about gave me a heart attack when I got the can down. After I took the photo, Drew took the can to the front yard and set it down on its side. It's true that only one of them was alive and able to escape, and it wasn't Drake! I can honestly say that no gecko was injured in the making of this picture.

Day 78

...and he was known from that night forward as Sir Jonathan, Slayer of Dragons.







I am always telling my kids that if you have to explain a joke, it isn't very funny. Breaking my own cardinal rule, here's the explanation for today's photo:

I went to the Plano Balloon Fest on Saturday night to see the Balloon Glow with two of my girls. When all the balloons had their burners on, there was plenty of light for pictures, and my plan was to stick a little man in fthe foreground of the balloons, unfocused, and I'd figure out a caption on my way home later. I held him in front of the lens with one hand and just started shooting. This was the original photo that I thought I'd use:

The balloons looked nice, but I didn't have a clue at the time what I'd caption it with. I figured that was the best shot I'd get, though. Not long after that, this balloon finally lit up:

The balloon glow lasted for another 25 mintues or so. Towards the end, the dragon balloon was the first one deflated by its crew. By the time it started to fall, we'd walked around to the other side, and we watched it slowly sink to the ground. As it went down, one arm fell over its chest, like a dramatic cry of "Help! I've been shot!" It cracked me up and reminded me that I had a new LEGO crossbow, so I tried to get a couple of pictures, but it was too dark to see. At the very last minute, just before the dragon was completely flat, the all-white balloon next to it lit up its burner, and I got my shot. :) It's full of noise, and I probably could have blurred it or smoothed it, but I like it better this way.

Day 27

Ack! Not only did I fall asleep too early last night, while trying to put one of the kids to sleep, but my computer also decided to be uncooperative and install some updates in the middle of the night. More specifically, updates that also required a restart of the computer, which meant that all of the cropping, color editing, and adjusting I'd done to the picture was lost forever. Ugh.

So, my apologies for not having this posted on the correct day. I'm planning on changing the posting date before I publish this, just so it will show up correctly in the archives. The photo itself was taken yesterday evening, so I haven't missed my one-per-day photo challenge. Whew!

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Jake froze in his tracks and stared in awe. In all his years as a hunter, he never thought he'd find the legendary Albino Croc in its natural habitat.