I posted a number of pictures I’ve taken recently of flowers, tomatoes and other things.
I had a pretty good time trying to take pictures of the 4th of July fireworks. The few I captured were, I think, from Dana Point. I believe that’s where the Arroyo Trabuco trail ends.
Pictures of Emma from the last half of the 4th of July weekend are now up. She had a blast and played a good bit outside, including her first time playing in the dirt! Dirt is fun!
Working on getting the photo galleries using Movable Type rather than just me doing them by hand. Becoming lazy? Yeah, a little. I’d like to automate archiving, take advantage of comments, use some of the ratings plugins I’ve seen, etc.
The photo gallery index for Emma was growing unwieldy. 22k of HTML and another ~ 250k in thumbnails. Sloooow looaaaading. I’m now posting in reverse chronological order on the main page and have broken everything up by month in an index. If you want everthing in full glory the master is still around.
Hooray! I got my first ratings over at photo.net – without even requesting a critique. My “Post With Barbed Wire at Sunset” didn’t get high marks, but that’s OK with me. As long as they’re not bad! :)
I took far too long a hike in the Arroyo Trabuco Wilderness. Came back sunburned, but had a great time. I suspect the round trip was approximately 7 miles or so. If you check out the 2nd map in the link above our house is near the bottom, where the Tierras Creek Trail crosses the gray line and comes closest to Antonio.
With Emma and Marla on vacation in Seattle I have nothing but nature to photograph. I’ve been taking walks in the evenings in the canyon across the street. It’s part of O’Neill Regional Park and is one of the reasons we love it here.
Marla and Emma are in Seattle, so I’m spending my evenings putting up photos! Two new sets of pictures of Emma that are sure to delight.
We took Emma swimming for the first time this past weekend. She had an absolute blast playing in the water and, of course, looked super-cute in her little bathing suit.
Check out the pictures of Emma’s First Swim.
We took a stroll down in the canyon (part of O’Neill Regional Park) across the street a few weeks ago. I’ve finally posted the pictures, both of Emma and plants we saw along the way. Links below: