First time to try smoke photography lots to learn

Dog wearing goggles

Inspired by some of my Flickr friends, I've been working on compiling a list of all the birds I have photographed. I started a new Flickr album to help keep me on task. I still have several more new to me birds to share before I am complete. And of course, I hope to add plenty more in the future.

This, I believe, is a black vulture. Usually we see turkey vultures around here. This is the first and only time so far I have seen a black vulture. I was leaving one of my favorite local birding spots and traveling a country road when I came upon this guy/gal feasting on some road kill. I stopped the car in hopes of getting a shot, but it flew off up into the trees. Fortunately, I didn't completely spook it and managed to get some shots out the car window. I was also fortunate to have my camera and zoom lens sitting right beside me since I had just finished searching for birds at the pond.

It appears that this area is in the northernmost range of the black vulture, according to All About Birds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ... link follows ...

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/black_vulture/id

Dog wearing goggles

First time at the stadium! Go chipolopolo go!

We stopped by Jerome, AZ and this was the first time we'd been out of the car around snow on our trip.

Dog wearing goggles

Taken at the Saint Louis Zoo during Trent's first visit

i added a lot of lines from the original book. all of the quotes i used are about nancy's actions.

This is a budding drummer.

my first attempt at wet felting! (not including felted soap)

mason neck state park

On a whirlwind of an evening, three young ladies were feeling frisky and, on a whim, stopped at a precariously purple tattoo shop off of Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. All signs pointed to "Go" and this is the evidence of one life changing decision...and it turned out beautifully!

Just want to give a shout out to my friends at Christa Construction for being so cool about their broken window and baseball sitting on their computer of their construction trailer that was sitting right next to the ball fields this weekend.

Connor put a ball on a tee and hit it over a 6 foot fence and right through the window.

On the way storming home when I asked him why he did it, he told me, "Because Matthew and Trevor told me to do it."

Nice.

Taken during Trents first time at the Saint Louis Zoo

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Olympus digital camera

Dog wearing goggles

Yeah yeah yeah, it's been done a million times before, but i'm so tired, i've got work tonight and I wanted to try out the extension tubes that also came yesterday along with my grip!

some of his first steps

Chris' first tree climb

Now how do I get out of this thing?

too bad it wasn't with a picture I took, rather than a picture I edited. But hey, I'll take it. Thank you everyone!

The picture was taken by Kelly. This is for What's Your Play on Dolce Pics.