Fly Overs, living under an airport approach.

The air was busy friday afternoon above Centennial, Colorado. There was apparently a traffic jam on the ground near the park where we were playing because an helicopter kept circling the area. There were also several jets coming in and so I just had to try and shoot a picture of them.

A Photo Walk

It was pretty cold Saturday morning and there had been light fog the night before so I went on a photo walk of sorts. It was really quite cold so I didn't stay out too long but still had a lot of fun.

Even the birds made it look pretty cold.

The early morning light made for a beautiful backdrop.

I caught this one in the top of the tree and almost caught him as he flew away.

These geese were just out for a walk in the park I guess. Actually they apparently feed here at a local school yard and there are usually a lot more of them. I didn't get to see the large groups of them that day.

A very fun and fast weekend.

We went to Colorado for our Granddaughter's baptism into the church and then had fun with the other grandchildren while we were all there together. Here are a few of the images of the grandchildren.

Kasia

Kasia and Grandma and Grandpa

Sam

Gabe

Hallie

McKinsey

Fun with talents, carving wood

Carving Staves

When I first became a scoutmaster I was introduced to Bill Birch and Chuck Loveless who were always telling stories and carving bolo’s while telling them, they could keep boys spellbound for hours. Anyway I decided that I wanted to learn as well and so one day began carving and much to my dismay it looked nothing like a face that they would carve, but through perseverance I began doing a pretty good job especially since I used one of theirs to copy the first time after that failed attempt. Later though after making over a 100 of those faces I decided to try doing ones on a stave. I had wood burned staves several times but had never carved on one. However the things that I had learned with the small pieces still applied here and I was able to have as much fun with them as with the others. I ended up carving over 30 staves and possibly more. I would give most of them away to the leaders that were helping me. I often have people whom I have given a stave tell me that they still have it and I often have forgotten that I had even given them one. I carved one stave with animal faces since we had been living with a bear near camp that year. My first face however was done because of a bad day that Tia was having at girl’s camp. Marie had gone to camp that year with her and I took Loren and Brittany and we stayed near the area in a motor home that had been given to me by Dave Nemelka. I took both of them into camp with me each day and would help the Sister’s with whatever they needed. Britt loved it but told one of the girl’s that Tia was her secret friend and that ruined it for Tia. Well that made Tia mad and she was mad at me so I went to the road where I had seen some wood that had been pushed over as they cleaned the road earlier that year. I took a long one from the group and stripped the bark from it. It was a very hard wood and not like the aspen that I had been carving to that point which was quite easy. I went ahead and carved it anyway. She liked it and it made a hit with the other girls and leaders so for the next 12 years as I attended girls camp each year I would do several staves and give to the stake leaders. It was a lot of fun.

More from the Eagle photography, only it is a hawk

We had been driving for an hour but no sign of eagles. However there were a lot of hawks and this was one of them.

A little ice photography on Hobble Creek

So I was photographing a family at Jolley's Ranch and was taken by the beauty of the ice formations in the water so after we were done I stayed around a little longer and took some photos of the stream.

I have enhanced some of these images with LAB color.

New Wheels

It needs a wash job but here is the initial images of our car that is replacing the one I wrecked in November. It is a VW Passat.