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Dear JV,
Sincere is the lesson that’s taken to heart.
Hear the old men when they tell you “don’t wait”.
The work done from now until then is key.
The success of your season, defining your legacy.
Today is your best opportunity to start.
Don’t let time go by, tomorrow’s too late.
When last in your pads, you are covered in sweat.
Lesson learned and passed on, not an ounce of regret.
With all sincerity,
The Graduating Seniors
Logan is taking swimming lessons. He's a Tiny Tot, and here he is in
his second day. Really, he should be a Water Baby, because he's only
2 1/2 and Tiny Tots start at 3 years old. But goodness knows he's as
big as all the Tiny Tots, so it's all good.
He's doing wonderfully! He tries to follow instructions. But as you
can see in this photo, none of the kids has much of an attention
span. Logan loves kicking, floating and blowing bubbles. And we're
working on him not climbing out of the pool to run over and get me to
join him in the water: "Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama!" This is he first
class without me right there with him, and I do appreciate that he
wants me to share in the fun!
So, two weeks from now, he'll be ready for the deep end!
Tags I made using the stamps from lessons 1 & 2. I used watercolors to splatter and dribble on the tags, before stamping.
Women on vacation in Costa Rica take a surf lesson with Bodhi Surf School. The first step was learning to stand up on a sand-drawn board on the beach
A lesson in pano shooting...when I held the camera vertically to take these shots I didn't give much thought to what I might lose along the edges once the photos were stitched together. This is my first attempt at a vertical pano so it didn't occur to me to over shoot the scene. In spite of the voids after cropping, I think they came out pretty cool so I thought I'd share them anyway.
Photoshop Elements does a pretty nice job at stitching these together providing you give it the goods to work with from the start. It also gives you choices regarding the type of pano you would like it to create. This one has a slight rounded appearance. Notice the buildings appear to be curved. It is called "Cylindrical". There are other choices shown prior to this one. I experimented with all the pano effects Elements offered but these three are the best. In some of the truly quirky pano choices it didn't handle the buildings very well and things got a little weird.
The sculpture is named "Transcending". It consists of two 59-foot high stainless steel arcs encircled by split boulders supporting a bronze relief of scenes from Detroit's labor history. The work is a gift from Detroit's labor unions to the city in celebration of its 300th birthday.
Transcending is a collaborative work by artists David Barr and Sergio De Giusti. Barr's gleaming arc-like stainless steel sculpture complements De Giusti’s bronze reliefs mounted on cut granite stones The work is an interpretation of historic labor events encompassing the symbolic circle of Transcending, representing the never-ending cycle of work.
Note of interest: The building center frame, One Woodward Avenue, was built by Michigan Consolidated Gas in 1962. The architect, Minoru Yamasaki also designed the World Trade Center. The restaurant on the 26th floor appropriately named "Top of the Flame", was illuminated in yellow at night and was a 'go to' place for an awesome dinner and a great view.
I hope you enjoy these experimental shots. Please view large to see people, birds, details.
bracket stamp - I'll probably add something more to this tag, but for right now, I love looking at it.
"Okay, you stay over in the brown grass and I'll stand here in the snow..."
On an decommissioned army depot near us, there's a herd of white white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). They're not albino, but rather an uncommon mutation that makes them white. The county wants to develop the land, but a group of local citizens (Seneca White Deer, Inc.) has started a campaign to save the deer and turn the area into a conservation park. There are also some normal colored deer, and you can see one of each in this photo.
The Depot is closed to the public, but it's not unusual to see the white deer through the chain-link fence. We pulled over and shot a few photos through the fence Saturday on our way to a party in Trumansburg.