a photograph of droplets suspended on a spider's web with bokeh of droplets in the background ..

Western Trillium (Wake-Robin)

looking for a dandelion

She gets intent on working with colors and numbers. Especially close to bedtime.

thankyou to ghostbones for the texture ..

and apologies to ppl who dont like flies .. :)

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Every morning the kids stand in the school courtyard, do some exercises, say the pledge, and listen to anthems. (yes, plural - American and Japanese). This was her first day, waiting for everything to begin.

She WAS sleepin... but then the eyes popped open. Jay hung out on my lap quite a bit as a wee one.

a tiny snail shell...

Halloween as a ladybug really takes it out of a kid.

April Snow, the a few days after the storm.

Small Thing woke up Easter morning to a message from Peter Cottontail, who had left a basket o' goodies and hid over a dozen eggs around the house... while she slept! Santa's got NUTHIN on that baby!

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Polyanthus Gold Lace from above

Fly 1 - overexposed - but I like it.

Yes, friends and family - they have a seagull exhibit at the Zoorasia Park.

Seagulls. I have this vision of a bazillion of the sqwaky things in the parking lot of the NEX back at Whidbey... Jase, of course, drove straight for the parking spot that 92,000 seagulls were occupying.

The Kia was never the same...........

And look! Now there's a small horde of seagulls driving some massive bird of prey crazy at the zoo!

when you can just climb the slide?

It is cutlery that looks like many others but is different. A dub of cutleries which produces a child everybody has always longed for, but will always be a little bit Frankie. You may be able to tattoo it, to engrave it, or to dress it up in silk, but don´t fool yourself, it will always be Frankie.

New bike!

this is a product of play...

copyright: Laird R. Haynes, 2011.