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Looking out my back door

Emily — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:59:55 +0000

I love light & shadows – they create such interesting patterns if you stop and look at them. I’m trying to be more intentional about carrying a camera with me and actually taking pictures. What a concept, I know. This is one of the gates to our apartment building, facing west. I pretty much only use when coming home from work on my bike, because there’s a ramp leading up to it rather than a flight of stairs.

Lantern at Dusk

Emily — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:28:15 +0000

Flowers

Emily — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:38:06 +0000

From a walk around the neighborhood this weekend.

Colorado: The Vistas

Emily — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:05:34 +0000

Looking out at the mountains from the tundra, off Trail Ridge Road.

Trees starting again below the tundra, down the valley.

Elk in Moraine Park

Aspens & mountains, on our way up Deer Mountain

From our hotel balcony in Denver, looking out over the city to the mountains. Beautiful.

Colorado: The Details

Emily — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:15:52 +0000

Ryder and I got to spend about 10 days in Colorado last month. First, some of the details:

Gnarled roots. We saw a lot of these, and I really liked them.

Aspen trees, their yellow leaves, and their shadows.

A bright red tree stump – burnt perhaps? Or naturally colored? We saw a lot of these bright red exposed tree insides.

Another anomaly – distinctly twisted tree trunks. I speculated that this was caused by wind, but that’s just a guess.

Next up, Colorado: The Vistas

The making of a giant thank-you card

Emily — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:55:46 +0000

A sculptural tour

Emily — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:31:32 +0000

While in Grand Rapids for my lovely cousin’s lovely wedding, my family took a trip to Meijer Gardens. It’s a combination botanical garden and sculpture park, and the exhibit while we were there was of Dale Chihuly’s glass sculptures. It’s a pretty fun experience, actually – sort of like a treasure hunt to find all the sculptures that are hiding in the ponds, waterfalls, and fields. Or at least as many as you can manage before you melt from the heat.

Chihuly Cranes in the thicket

Ryder in Summer Dance

Grand Rapids Arch

with The American Horse

a man of letters
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Water Rocket

Emily — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:40:05 +0000

If only I had a video camera to capture this – this rocket launches fast (the 3 pictures above were all taken within one second). Ryder built it out of PVC pipe and a 2 liter bottle for our church’s VBS program. The short story of how it works: slide a half-full 2 liter bottle on the end of a PVC pipe. Hook up a bike pump to the other end of the pipe. Pump until highly pressurized. Pull string to release bottle. Get wet. Over the 4th of July, we took it out on the river with Ryder’s family and had a blast (ha ha ha) with it.

Budgies & more budgies

Emily — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:19:03 +0000

A few months ago, Zoo Atlanta had a “special” Tech day at the zoo – admission was $1 less than the normal student rate. Woo hoo. We took advantage of the “deal” and braved the sweltering heat to see some animals. We ended at the Budgie house:

This pairing was probably the smallest gathering – in the small budgie area there were hundreds upon hundreds of budgies. You could buy little sticks of food to feed them with, but we quickly discovered that the end of the afternoon was not the best time to try to entice them. We had expected them to fly down to the food, but after hundreds of little food sticks, they seem to have realized flying was not necessary. The only way they’d eat the food was if you stuck the stick right in front of where they were already perched.

More zoo pictures

Cacti

Emily — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:38:36 +0000

Cacti at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

I was trying to think of something clever to say, but I have nothing. I posted a few more photos of our trip to the gardens over in my photos.