Daily Grind

Mother’s Day

Posted on May 9, 2011 in Daily Grind, Photography | 0 comments

I don’t know about everyone else but I had a great mother’s day. We spent the better part of the day at mom and dad’s, doing various things, but mostly nothing. Later in the afternoon we installed some swings in a big oak tree out back and the wee-kids had some good times trying...

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Spring Shots

Posted on Apr 28, 2011 in Daily Grind, Photography | 0 comments

Here are a few random shots I’ve taken over the last several weeks of Wee-Emma: Eating a marshmallow. Checkin’ out Momma’s new flower garden. Just being goofy. Cookin’ some skillet-corn. Riding...

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The Office

Posted on Apr 22, 2011 in Daily Grind | 1 comment

Lately one of Emma’s favorite things to do is to sit at my desk and draw. She has her own set of markers and crayons at her table but of course it’s more fun to use mine. I suspect this has more to do with the allure of my office, because she knows it’s generally off limits unless...

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The Next Summit

Posted on Apr 19, 2011 in Daily Grind | 1 comment

Every other year Ian and I climb a mountain and this year is one of those years. We’ve temporarily scaled back our man expedition and will be hitting up the Ozark Trail here in Missouri. Ian and I hiked a short portion of this trail back in college while geocaching and it was...

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River Livin’

Posted on Apr 14, 2011 in Daily Grind, Photography | 0 comments

Here are a few other photos from the other night. Spring is always a good time to break out one of my lesser used lenses, the macro. It’s intended to be used for ultra close-up shots, but it also is a pretty decent portrait lens as well. Being fixed at 100mm, you have to stand pretty far...

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Spring Activities

Posted on Apr 11, 2011 in Daily Grind | 0 comments

I’m a bit behind in posting anything so here are a few pics of the last couple weeks. A week ago my father in law and I took Emma to Roaring River State Park for some hiking and fishing. We walked a (fairly steep) 2 mile trail and afterwards threw some rocks in the river. Then we had a...

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