• personal,  travel

    rain & rainbows

    More from Colorado, different ends of the road at the same time. Loved the way the sun lit up the patch of rain. The rainbow was the best one I’ve ever seen.

  • personal,  travel

    waiting for the storm (colorado)

    Finally, finally started editing the pictures from our summer 2014 trip to Seattle and Denver. Not sure I took the camera out of the bag once in Seattle, but while the boys were at baseball (where else would they be?) and after I went to the gun range (where else would I be?) I hit up a park and shot with my camera. The parks out there certainly don’t look like the parks here. Even strip mall parking lots had amazing views of the mountains, tons of untouched land and the biggest skies. I’ll be posting a few (or just one) picture a day for a bit, till I get thru them all.

  • children & families,  personal,  travel

    a trip to tampa

    Luckily, we have friends that are good enough that I can basically invite ourselves to their house for a weekend visit. Which is pretty much exactly what happened. So happy to see my U of Miami friend Nate (friends for 27 years!), his fantastic wife Colleen and their gorgeous little girls at their new(ish) home in Tampa. We crashed at their house for a long weekend to sorta celebrate my birthday. Didn’t take the camera out much, but had to get a few shots for them. We had a great visit with lots of laughs, wine, range time, wine, food, wine, swimming, wine and the hot tub. And wine.

    Never believed I would have lived to see the day that this would be happening.

    A few instagram shots from the weekend. Visited our niece Rachel and Kristen at U of Tampa. Took the girls out to dinner. Nate took me to the range. Omg, so fun!! And he fixed my technique on the handgun so I was doing much better. Private Benjamin lives, reflected by an almost stroke I gave the poor guy talking about my plan to get a Tiffany blue Glock. Girls in the backseat of the Mustang convertible John rented for us.Those eyes. These are the sweetest girls I have ever met. Ever. Yes, Nate was ready to kill me. So basically nothing new to see here, move along. Miss you guys so much. We’ll be inviting ourselves back again soon…be ready.

  • beach,  personal,  travel

    the beach

    I know its only the first day of spring today, but after the winter we’ve had, summer and the beach every day cannot come soon enough!! We had some unusually “big” waves down in Hallandale this trip, along with some jellyfish. Timmy got stung a little by a small one- thankfully not one of the man ‘o wars we saw washed up on the shore. He smelled like a tossed salad w vinegar the rest of the day.

    Im so sad these are my last set of pictures from Florida. But they’re my favorites.