Day 331/365 - Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana.....

...daylight come and me wan' go home...

Day 330/365 - In a crooked little town, they were lost and never found....

CJ and his pal Wyatt dove into the huge pile of leaves in our front yard. We raked for about 3 hours and still only put a small dent in the amount of leaves in our yard. I think I need a dump truck to get rid of all these things. I think I should warn the kids to get out of the pile first though, huh ? Ok....

...fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves on the ground.....

Day 329/365 - Put on your little red coat and come out with me tonight.....

I snapped a few quick pictures this day and thought they came out better than they did. I tried metering off the bright light which caused too quick of a shutter speed and all of the coats look red in the picture. One of them is an orange one and others are different shades of red. I didn't quite achieve what I was trying here...

...our love is all she wrote
they said to hold me tight
the Weasel and the Stoat
will not forget to bite
but you are at my throat
and we'll make it through alright....

Day 328/365 - Can you hear me now Elmo ?

Brendon now has his own cell phone. When he is not chewing on it, he loves pressing the buttons and hearing Elmo count ouf the numbers, I wish my phone had Elmo talking to me too...

... la la la la, la la la la Elmo's World.....

Day 327/365 - Cold turkey has got me on the run.....

Strange picture perhaps but I love the way it came out. Just a bit of ground turkey getting ready to be cooked into a wonderful meal of sloppy joes. It tastes the same as ground beef once you add all the seasoning in. I really like the color and texture of this photo, came out the way I wanted.

...Cold turkey has got me on the run....

Day 326/365 - I'll never beat the view From my front porch looking in....

There's a brown haired top who can barely walk with a sippy cup of milk...

Took this picture after a long day at work and I really needed something for the day. I see this view everyday but you don't think much about until you see it in a picture. We gotta change that storm door one of these days....

...Nothing takes my breath away
Like my front porch looking in...

Day 325/365 - What a feeling, bein's believin'.....

I can just hear the flashdance song playing in the back of my head as we are exercising on the floor of our great room. Started a fitness program and we are off to a great start. I picked up 2 of these exercise balls one my size and one for Michelle as well. Just doing a little arranging here for the photo...

...Take your passion, and make it happen.....

Day 324/365 - Cause baby love, my baby love....

Somebody was happy to see us when we got in the night before, we were away for 11 days which must have seemed like an eternity for the little guy. Tough snapping pictures of him, the bugger won't sit still for me, too busy playin'... :)

...been missing ya, miss kissing ya....

Day 323/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Now I love pigeons, and I love how they walk. And I've invented a really cool dance called......

Sitting and sitting , we sat for around 8 hours at the airport waiting for our flight. There were no earlier flights that day that we could get on so there was nothing to do exept wait it out, which sucked, this bird apparently had nothing better to do either. The picture is blurry but I captured what I wanted otherwise..

....Doin' the pigeon
Doin' the pigeon...

Day 322/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me....

We went and saw a culinary show in the Princess Theater and afterward were treated to a tour of one of the many kitchens on board the ship. At the end of the walk through they had a table displayed with many artistically displayed food items. Here you see an entire sailing vessel made out of bread, some sort of hard bread mixture, in the background is a bouquet of roses carved out of turnips.. Very cool, the galley tour otherwise was dumb...

...Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho....

Day 321/365 (Honeymoon Series) - You said our love was like a bonsai tree And of course, you were right....

Here I took a few pictures outside of the Lotus Spa as I waited for Michelle to finish her full body massage she was getting and well deserved after her rough day at the beach the other day. I spent some time in the pool while she did her thing there and I know she enjoyed because she came out feeling so relaxed and all smiles!!!

...Oh, that's why, darling, it's a tragedy
To find me drawing bonsai trees tonight.....

Day 320/365 (Honeymoon Series) - There was a fair maid and she lived alll alone....

After yesterday's debacle the two of us didn't really want to venture into the water, Michelle had got sand and salt water in her eyes and they were still bothering her today and for days after. The safari tour driver even let her sit in the front of the car with him so she could keep the wind out of her eyes. Here is the winding down part of our tour where we had a few hours at the beach, I walked in a bit and the undertown was insane, so very pretty to look at though, the scenery is so unbelievable here....

....she lived all alone on the shore....

Day 319/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Oh I swear over and over It's you like a wave into me.....

On the beautiful island of St. Lucia , it was supposed to be a fun at the beach day, however the beach they brought us to was terrible, a short section of steep shoreline behind some resort. The waves got so big that one walloped half of the people in the water , knocked me under and hit my head against the sand, got up and out of the water. The red flags were flying but nobody told us about them. The water was pretty , just really dangerous that day. You can see our new friends Jeff and Carla in the water here...

...When you come crash into me baby
Please come crash into me ...

Day 318/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Shock the monkey to life....

on Barbados we signed up for a monkey encounter where we got a chance to see monkeys in the wild, and in a lucky chance Michelle got a chance to feed them, check for pictures on Facebook!! They'll be there soon... I used this picture for my dail because of the artistic look of it and I just thought the clarity was superb!

...Wheels keep turning
Something's burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning

Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey.....

Day 317/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Southern trees bear strange fruit....

Here on the island of St. Kitts we took an off the beat path tour of the island. We got to see so many cool vegetation growing, papayas, mangoes, star fruit, and many many more, our tour guide stopped in a nice scenic area and prepared for us a snack of some of the local fruits and treats and of course some rum punch. Pictuers is some Sour Sap (prickly pear we call it I think), some Sugar Bread, and some Coconut breat. We also had some green oranges and some Golden apples, and some sugar cane, what a great way to sample the local flavors.

....Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.....

Day 316/365 (Honeymoon Series) - There's and iguana in Botswana Miss Marie...

On the island of St. Thomas we had a little tour of the island and some time at Magen's Bay , what a great beach, this picture was taken at the area where we got off the boat, there were hundreds of these guys all over the rocks, and I liked the look of this picture quite a bit!!..

...there's another on the rocks here by the sea.... there is one right by your sister, oh look i think it kissed her, there's and iguana in Botswana Miss Marie...

Day 315/365 - her face is a soft canvas painted white......

Taken in the the lotus spa pool in the front of the boat up on deck 16, what a great little quiet pool on a big cruise ship, it was always rather empty in this place and we met a couple great people here as well , Jeff and Carla!!! Hi guys! Well not much to say about this statue, I took the shot from below in the pool and this is what I got...

.....like a beautiful Japanese water sprite ....

Day 314/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Ain't got a Cadillac or big old De Ville I'm just a little guy not a big tire wheel....

Taken on the beach in Princess Cays , Bahamas while Michelle got here hair braided by one of the locals. I love the colorful tires and the brilliant blue sky here , just amazing. The water felt so great wading through. Such a pretty place set up for the cruise ship people only, would like to check out the mainland someday though as well.

...But I can prove my love is true
On my rockin' bicycle that's built for two....

Day 313/365 (Honeymoon Series) - Why don't we (sail) away....

Here is the one of the main pool areas on the boat where everyone was gathered for our sail away celebration from Florida, it was a surreal experience very fun....

Just point and click ( not going to comment to much on the photos in this series since it was most automatic with the camera in this case)

...Why don't we (sail) away, into the night...

Day 312/365 - little fish, big fish , swimming in the water...

Our first day of our honeymoon was spend in the pool at our hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. I was trying out my new underwater camera which is what I brought along on our trip so I didn't have to bring the huge camera bag and such, although i would have liked that too but this was easier. This was my self portrait taken under the surface.

...come back here man, give me my daughter...

Used a Pentax Optio , underwater mode, neat picture good clarity, love the palm trees in the background.

Day 311/365 - Just give me some candy....

CJ got a lot of candy walking up and down just one street in our neighborhood, well it's the big houses behind where we live and EVERYONE goes there for halloween, it's insane!

Don't have time for much today , busy busy.... !!

Day 310/365 - Ee chee wa maa!.....

Trying to get a shot of the baby in his Ewok costume proved very difficult, he refused to keep the headpiece on, so this is the only clear shot of the baby I got, he's been sick so I didn't want to bother him more.

I used some side lighting with an orange backdrop, trying to be more creative with lighting as you can see....

....Yeha....