Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! :)

Before the carving...

This year, carving was accompanied by jello. My wife had a wisdom tooth yanked the day before, so we were still on a liquid, soup, jello, Ensure diet. I ate soft stuff with her as a sign of solidarity (and strawberry jello is yummy). ;-)

Zoe the curious.

My spooky robot, Zoe's spooked tiny, and Kim's kitty. Pumpkins '13. :)

Pumpkin Picking

We went pumpkin picking for Kim's birthday. Our visit to the pumpkin patch has become a thing of tradition for us. This was our third annual pumpkin picking journey! :)

Going to a popular pumpkin patch with loads of cameras means you spend a lot of time waiting for people to move out of your frame. My wife waiting...

We snuck over to the corn fields!

The winners... our pumpkins! :)

And Zoe got one, too... :)

Another Walk In The Park

Another walk in the park...

A self portrait of sorts... notice the lower right corner. Shadows of us were on the trees. I enjoyed this moment.

Olympus OM1N, Kodak Portra 800 at 640

Just in time for Fall

Just in time for Fall, I got some photos back from Spring.

Yashica Mat 124G, Kodak Ektar 100

Wildflowers

Wildflowers and a butterfly from our hike in the woods. This is the pretty side of a scary forest full of bugs. :)

Nikon F100, Kodak Ektar 100

Anniversary Hiking

For our "met-each-other" anniversary this year, we decided to go hiking at Washington State Park. We settled on a roughly 6.3 mile trail, packed up our snacks and cameras, and headed south to explore. Surprises were in store though...

This place had so many bugs... huge, buzzing, swarming, annoying bugs. It got so bad at one point, that Kim picked a small tree and was literally waving it around in the air around our heads trying to keep the bugs away. Those bugs eventually got the best of us. Well, one bug got the best of Kim. She got stung on the neck. Thankfully, she doesn't have the kind of reactions that I have to such things. We also ran into what seemed to be a rattlesnake on this trail. Honestly, scared the crud out of us both and our "hike" was more like a "trail run" around that time. Ha!