Question: I’m thinking this might look better with the bright strip on the left side cropped off, but then I worry that it looks too chopped. What do you think?

I actually got out of my backyard to take pictures this weekend — not too far, though. Just about a half mile down the road there is a little lake community (that’s what we call it, it might have an actual name) with a run down park and a bunch of houses, some little and run down, others are large and new (my favorite is a tiny little house covered in purple asphalt shingles). I’ve taken pictures there before (the eyes in my banner are from a climbing thing in the park), Saturday I took two rolls of film with the Mamiya (don’t get excited, that’s 24 frames, two of which were blank), and developed and scanned them on Sunday. Practically the speed of digital!

I’m really doing well with this posting a picture a day, aren’t I? Anyway. These pictures (also from Thanksgiving) would all be better if they were, I don’t know. Better. But small children being cute with their father has appeal all on it’s own, so who needs focus or decent lighting? Right?

A month or so ago, Len’s sister got a Labradoodle puppy named Seamus. He’s awfully cute.

I know this isn’t technically a great picture, but I find it charming anyway.

He likes to be picked up and carried.