Zeus? Adonis? Atlas?

What is this guys name? Well we can just call him Fred for now. He lives in my mothers back yard. Well, both he and is identical twin brother live there. My mom has a great eye for garden statuary. (Have I told you what a wonderful oasis her yard is?)

You can see these two brothers from my mom's dining rooms. They work well in her yard. I was just wondering around her yard one night with my camera and captured the backside and the frontside. I had to do quite a bit of post processing because the original just had too many background distractions.

I am pleased with my capture. Can you keep a secret? I am going to blow this up and give it to someone as a Christmas gift. It will be a funny but appreciated gift. I can't wait!

Downtown

Since my daughter had to be at a reading class at the downtown library, I thought this was a good photo opportunity for me. I spent about an hour and covered all of about 4 blocks. I didn't want to get too far away from the library and it was about 100 degrees outside- miserably hot. But I got a few pics that I liked.

I may try again next week (only if it is a little cooler outside)

Welcome to downtown action city!

Up Up and Away

It is not everyday that you get this close to a hot air balloon. On the 4th of July we looked and just down the road they were blowing it up so they could go for a flight (or is it a coast?) It blew up rather quickly and was airborn and gone. It looks like fun, but I would first have to get over my fear of heights (or sit at the bottom of the basket shaking uncontrollably).

Fireworks and fires

I hope everyone had an enjoyable 4th of July holiday. Ours was nice and I truly enjoyed that extra day off work...can we have an extra day off every week??

My son and husband live for lighting fireworks on the 4th. They save up their money and then spend a virtual fortune (don't get me wrong I like to spend money- I just prefer to spend it on things that will last more than one day, like cameras and lenses...I call them investments)

So I was able to capture a few of the fireworks shots. Not too bad for an amatuer and this was my first attempt.

The fireworks show ended when they purposefully lit the log burn pile on fire.