Pipe Dream

We took the boys to a local dairy farm yesterday - one that still has local deliveries of milk, ice cream, and yogurt. You can watch them milk and feed the cows, and there's a large, corrugated drainage tube propped up on a stack of hay bales. The bales are arranged so that adventuresome 3 and 4 year-olds can climb them to slide down the tube. And of course, anything that adventuresome 3 and 4 year-olds do will be immediately attempted by their adventuresome 18 month-old brothers.

 

As far as slides go, this one is pretty slow, which allows for a wide range of facial expressions as the rider thub-thub-thub-thub-thub-thub-thub-thub-thub-thub-thubs his way down the ridged interior.

 

Originally, this shot was nothing but a silhouette with some dim rings around it. I saved it as much as technology and my current photoshop prowess would allow, which explains the graininess in Sam's noisy face and form, which I've decided to desaturate, wrap up in texture, and present here as a choice of style.

 

We went last year, too.

Done