May 19

No Tightrope Required

We camped the night and then on the second leg of the journey the little car overheated. My amazing husband switched out the thermostat while Gage climbed onto the base of this lightpost and jump off. Over and over and over and over....... So grateful for man on bike that just happened to have same kind of car and diagnosed probably cause. Grateful for auto parts stores that stay open 'til 10! And are nearby! And will open up a copy of a Chilton's (we ended up buying the Chilton's, good thing to have with a 24 year old car.) Grateful to have just happened to have tools in the van! But mostly grateful for the amazing husband. :-)

May 18

Off to a Sweet Start

Starting off on the long drive to see my Aiden and her little family. Gage and I took the van and my husband and other son took the little used car that we bought on daughter's behalf. It's exactly as old as she is!

May 17

Love is a Risk

This year Gage was VERY into Mother's Day. Started asking about it in advance: "How many days until Mother's Day?" Someone had told him it was 5 days until Mother's Day and he got it into his head that meant Mother's Day lasted for 5 days. So now he nows what "until" means. It's interesting the things we assume make sense but sometimes aren't as cut and dried as we think! So Gage made his Daddy take him shopping and he picked out white roses and the game of Risk. Pretty cool. He's made that jump from getting someone something HE likes to trying to figure out what THEY might like. We started a game but haven't all been around at once to finish it and it's sat on the table as the roses dried up under the ceiling fan. I'd been liking the way the board reflectd light, and then I saw that the roses had dried and cute the heads off, and decided to take this pic. I'm pretty happy with this as it's hand held at 1/25!

May 16

Send in the Clowns
She was feeling a bit sore as the novocain wore off. This was taken while sitting at the Lebanese Restaurant where we had lunch.

May 15

Furrows

Boy howdy did I sleep a LOT yesterday! I did happen to take just a couple shots on my way to the car at some point. So I've had to go with an edit of one of those. I love the way this town goes through flower phases. As dogwood petals drift over the ground, the flags have all come out. I didn't recall our yard having a yellow one, but I guess it does!

May 14

Fire in the Belly

May 13

En Garde!

May 12

Quit Takin' Pictures and Throw the Frisbee Already!

Yup. My dog is a happy dog. What's not to love about that?

May 11

No Respect

May 10

The Pretty of Love

Gage titled the shot again today. I'm glad these roses are doing so well this year. The past two years they haven't bloomed well, looking as though they had got sunburned or something before having a chance. (I forgot to upload this here yesterday)

May 9

Adorned

As we got home from grocery shopping, I noticed that the evening sun was slanting in just so as to illuminate the trunk blossoms. I've always liked the trunk blossoms anyway, but this was super cool.

May 8

Happy Escape
Actually, just an excuse to take another picture of my dogwoods.

May 7

Swan Song

I'm sad to see the peonies go.

May 6

Evening in the Front Yard

May 5

Well, it's not great, but it's one of the best I got. Sometimes the equipment just can't handle it. Sigh. It was cold and WINDY! But so beautiful and definitely worth chasing!

Windmills Flailing at the Moon

May 4

Faces are Overrated


I asked Gage what he wanted on his cake. "The DC Superfriends, candy, brown sugar and vegetables." He's been amusing me for 6 years and I look forward to many more. Oops, I guess if he'd noticed I'd forgotten candy I'd have said the buttercream decorating icing counted!LOL
And blowing out the candles.

May 3

Have to remember to post here too. Gage chose the pic for today.

Peppermint Twist I had been thinking of going with this one:

Spin

May 2

Drove into Portland with Tim. First we drove way out of our way to look at a used car for Aiden and her little family. We got it. Then Tim's dentist appointment. Pretty much spent the whole day in the car and now have a killer overcast sky headache. As we were leaving the gas station in Troutdale, a truck pulled RIGHT out in front of me! It was a little scary, but at the light I thought the back of his truck looked cool. So that smoothed my ruffled feathers a bit :-)

Rear View

May 1

Yup. It's that time of year again!