In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death

"Road trip!!"

Finally,hit the road for our first summer trip.

We love to go visit some friends who live on the 

Olympic Penisula.

We go once or twice a year and love the 2 1/2 hour drive.

Gives my wife and her twin friends a chance

to catch up on what's been going on and 

relax for a few hours.

They love to steal away for a bit all alone 

in the wine garden.

What they talk about, I doubt if any 

red blooded male would care to know...

... and we are smart enough to know,

stay away from there ...for now.

Ivy says, "please come again "

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Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

Time to share a few

Dirt eaters

with you.

Our team in Red.

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I love my girls...

Today at our Grandson's graduation party

I had the opportunity to take a portrait shot

of my Wife and Daughter together.

Catching them together is like

catching a white blackbird...

I can't wait to frame it.

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Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

Every year I look forward to these

plants to bloom.

I'm sure they have a pretty fancy name , but

I have no idea what it is.

I just call them,

" The Devil's poker"

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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Okay, Okay !!  

Time for a Tomato plant update...

Finally , I have buds on the stock.

It's going to bare fruit !!!!

( last time I said that, my wife had twins....)

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Close your eyes and see the beauty.

Time to share...

a few recent candids of some friends.

Hope you enjoy looking as much

as I did capturing them.

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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

What a wonderful day. Watched another of our Grandchildren graduate from High School.

Tarin is ready to leave the nest.

I have to admit, it is easier to watch a grandchild leave home then it was to stand there while our own left home.

But, none the less, they are missed.

I made this portrait of Tarin recently

The moment we all waited for.

The look of completion.

another task well done.

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