Dragon's Photo Blog

Virginia City, 6/2009, visit with Grandma and Grandpa

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Sunset in Nevada, 6/2009

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Birthdays 2009

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Birthday Fun

June 2009, Slip N Slide!

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Beach Trip June 2009

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Drake

Some guy who took FOREVER to jump
Some other guy chillin on a Seahorse
Zoe

Recent Pics

2008-09-09T17:27:00.001-07:00

Zoe's Room

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This took hours!

Meet Chevy

2008-09-09T15:52:00.000-07:00

Love at first sight

Meeting Chevy

MiMi and Chevy

Day 132, Birthday Party

2007-09-26T23:20:00.000-07:00

Ron actually took these, I was busy hosting.

Day 131, Hose Spray

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Day 130, Mud Splashes

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Danny and Kody having a ball!

Day 129, Zoe and Crew

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Day 128, More Jezica

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And I spelled her name right this time!

Day 127, Drake

2007-08-15T00:38:00.000-07:00

OK so I realize I have more pictures of the other kids, but my kids were uncooperative.

Day 126, Kody Again

2007-08-15T00:34:00.000-07:00

Some kids are just fun to photograph, Kody is definatly one of them.

Day 125, Franklin

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Day 124, Danny

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Danny Jumping
Danny Splashing
Danny Melting Down

Danny still melting down
Danny Happy!
Danny Mad
Danny mad, but "smiling" for the camera

Day 123, Caiden

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Day 122, The Dunking of Jeanna

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Day 121, Fun In The Sun

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Day 120, Wedding shoot

2007-07-27T11:54:00.000-07:00

Here is all I can really show. The sunset is cut so high to avoid the..ummm... large shirtless man walking up from the beach. These two photos of the bride and groom (M&M) are 2 that don't identify them which is why I used them. Most of my shots came out really bad, I'm pretty dissapointed. I really need practice.

Day 119, Tiny Bubbles

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Day 118, Clouds

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Day 117, Artichoke Plant

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Day 116, Fly Like an Eagle

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Here is an Eagle I spotted moments after arriving at my moms, I rushed to get a lens on my camera so I was not able to get much. It could possible be a Bald Eagle, but its more likely a Golden Eagle. He/she flew into the sun before we could get a clear view of its head.

Day 115, Kody

2007-07-25T00:31:00.000-07:00

Kody on his 5th birthday, I love these shots.

Day 114, Jezzica

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I just love these pictures of Jezzica

Day 113, Ladybug

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Day 112, Flames from the BBQ

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Day 111, Pulling Up

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OK so he's not actually pulling up here, but in that picture Zoe is in her underwear so I can't post it. Here is Troy just after his firt pull-up onto furniture.

Day 110, Why are the papertowels smushed?

2007-07-25T00:25:00.001-07:00

I went to the store recentlyand came home to find Drake asleep like this... now the papertowels won't stay on the holder, lol.

Day 109, Beach Day

2007-07-25T00:22:00.000-07:00

My kids at the beach having a blast.

Day 108, MZ Ladies Visit Tahoe!

2007-07-08T23:10:00.000-07:00

OK from the left, Maggie, Annette, Amanda, and me (also Amanda, we did that just to confuse everyone)

Annette, Amanda, Maggie in front of one of the Tallac Buildings
The girls taking a picture of me taking a picture of them.
The beach

Out ant attacker. My friend has them bigger than this in her house!
A duck, if you look closely you can see the rocks under the water.
A hoola hoping girl, I was kind enough to remove some cellulite for her.
A tree

Day 107, Sprinkler Fun!

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Day 106, Fire Flowers (Poppies?)

2007-07-07T00:24:00.000-07:00

I took these while out observing the fire, so the colors may seem off, but they are true. These flowers were just so striking I had to photograph them.

Day 105, Some Fire Photos

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Day 104, 4th Of July

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Day 103, Monday

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Day 102, Sunday

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Day 101, Sat

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Day 100, Friday

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Day 99, Thurs

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Day 98, Wed

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Day 97, Tue

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Day 96, Renn Fest (Monday)

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Day 95, Another Bear (Sunday)

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Day 94, Trolly (Saturday)

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Here we are, first waiting for the "Nifty 50 Trolly" then on it. The younger blonde boy is only in one photo since he freaked out and stuck to moms lap the rest of the ride.

Day 93, Cherries Jubilee (friday)

2007-06-09T13:47:00.000-07:00

My favorite ice cream

Day 92, Nylon Flower

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OK it just looked cool

Day 91, For Uncle Dom

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I was at the relatives house recently to honor the passing of Uncle Dom. These were some flowers there for him.

Day 90, Action

2007-05-28T23:01:00.001-07:00

A running lizard and a running chipmonk... as seen by his butt in the air. He was fast and a little neurotic, so this is all I got.

Day 89, Fallen Leaf Falls

2007-05-28T21:17:00.007-07:00

Here is the waterfall I promised. It was wonderful, unfortunatly I had 3 cranky kids in the car with dh, so it was all rushed shots on auto. I will go back alone someday to get some real shots. I love the shots with the women on the bottom left. The woman on the left is handing the woman on the right a present, they look so peaceful. I have wondered what the occasion is and for some reason I feel privledged to have witnessed it and photographed it. I wonder who they are, why they were they. I suspect they might be mother and daughter.

Edited to add more pictures of the women at the falls. There is a flower growing right behind them I noticed. I don't know why, I just feel like their reason for being there was speacial. You can click the image to see it closer.

Day 88, Amazing Tree

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Day 87, Where the River Flows

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Day 86, A Bird in the Bush

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Day 85, more Lilly Lake

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Day 84, Lilly Lake

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This is Lilly Lake, its more like a pond. Very pretty there. You can see the beaver dam in the third photo.

Day 83, More Water

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Day 82, Rushing Water

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I just loved how the water looked in contrast to the tree roots.

Day 81, Sail Away

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This is Fallen Leaf Lake, I took this photo from the car when we had to stop to allow a car to get past on the one lane road up to the falls.

Day 80, My Kitty

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Day 79, 4 Leaf Clover

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Found this in my yard, then my son trampled it.

Day 78, More Flowers

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More flowers.

Day 77, Nests

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These nests are all over the front of DD's school, the flowers are just below them. I don't know what kind of birds they are, maybe I should figure that out. OK I checked, they are Cliff Swallows

Day 76, What is it?

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Day 75, Liquid Gold

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Since I spend SOOOOOOO much time on milk for my baby.

Day 74, Toys

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Better late than never.

Day 73, More water droplets

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I took these pictures in the late evening while our sprinkler was going off, I think some of them came out pretty cool.

Day 72, Budding Soccer Player

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Day 71, My Yard

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Day 70, Learning to Crawl

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He's trying so hard, it won't be long now!

Day 69, Troy

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Day 68, Kids on a Trike

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Dh actually took these while holding my camera for me. I did a little cropping, but otherwise he got good shots :)

Day 67, Sunday May 6th, Food Assignment

2007-05-07T12:42:00.000-07:00

OK I realize this picture sucks. It was taken from my camera phone using flash (dimly lit room) and the waiter caught me doing it and well.... it just looks so "Beverly Hillibillies" to be using my pink mini cell phone to photograph my first course. This also explajns why I didn't photograph the lobster tail dinner or they cherries jubilee that was flambeed at our table. Mmmmmmmmm..... This was probably the fanciest dinner I have ever had, its at least a top contender.

Day 66, Ron and Amanda, May 5th, 2001

2007-05-07T12:34:00.000-07:00

Here we are just before we went out for our Anniversary. I would like to think I looked nice... but the camera really does add 10lbs.

I learned how to play Roulette on this outing, great fun and I won!

Day 65, More

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Day 64, More Fillers

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Day 63, Filler PIcs

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Day 62, Metal Horse

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Dave made this, I used to add a red nose and lights at Christmas

Day 61, More Moss

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I actually took these like 2 weeks ago but never blogged them. I love photographing moss, I have no idea why.

Day 60, Zoe

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Day 59, The Eyes Have It

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OK so its just an eye. I think this is more a show of photoshopping than photography. I have to remove a lot of stray hairs to have only an eye.

Day 58, Stellar Jay

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I am told this is a stellar jay and not a bluejay, he/she sure is pretty either way.

Day 57, Mama

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Look, she's a mama squirel! Too bad her babies aren't with her.

Day 56, More Fever

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At least its considerably lower than it was in the morning at 105.3

Day 55, Fever

2007-04-24T20:23:00.000-07:00

Ds has a 103.5 fever right now. I have given motrin and now piggy-backing with tylenol snuck into his gatorade. I even put him in a tepid bath and the cooling effects only lasted 10 minutes after. This sucks, expecially since he is uninsured because his insurance messed up again. This photo was taken when he only had a 101 fever.

Day 54, Coconut Head

2007-04-24T00:08:00.000-07:00

My friends little boy went through a phase of calling everyone and everything "coconut head" so imagine my suprise when I actually found a coconut head. I took this picture for Kody, coconut head.

Day 53, Roast Zoe and French Drake

2007-04-24T00:04:00.000-07:00

My kids broke one of their toy tubs so I took it out of their room soI could put some plastic in the bottom and "repair" it. But since it was empty it begged to be played in. Soon my kids were "cooking" each other in it (the lid opened like an oven door) and we had such dishes as "Roast Zoe" and French Drake" It was really very cute.

Day 52, April Showers?

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April showers bring... more snow?

Day 51, Enter Sandman

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My two older kids sleep with their eyes open, they have since they were babies.

Day 50, Amanda and Ron

2007-04-19T23:04:00.000-07:00

I am not currently wearing my ring because my fingers have gotten larger. As you can see, dh's ring needs to be repaired. Dh was working on a car one night and something slipped slamming into his ring and now its quite bent out of shape.

When we went looking for rings I knew I didn't want a diamond. It had nothing to do with money, I just didn't want a stone protruding from my ring. I knew a stone for me meant snags and lost stones, I wanted a band and Ron agreed. We went looking for rings one day and these were the first or second we looked at. We loved them right away, but knew we should not jump at the first set we saw, so we kept looking. But we would always come right back to these. We knew those were our rings, it had to be. So we found them at another store for 1/2 the price and spent the next 5 months paying 25.00 here and 50.00 there. Sometimes I would have them bring the rings out of the safe when I came in to make a payment, they were always happy to. I made the final payment just days before our wedding... it felt amazing. Our first TRUE pruchase made toether and the meaning could not be more significant. I love our rings. In fact dh and I decided to have them repaired/resized this weekend so we can wear them again. Yay!

Day 49, Sandy

2007-04-18T23:10:00.001-07:00

Lol, I took 4 pics of this guy, but unfortunatly he/she was mooning me in 2 of them.

Day 48, I Am Speed

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This has nothing to do with my self portrait, I am anything but speed, lol.

Day 47, Candy

2007-04-16T22:59:00.000-07:00

Since I am in a hurry tonight, I give you candy. Oh the little pills are grow capsules, little sponges that grow when you put them in warm water.

I am adding the original and how I did it is in the buddy group :)

Day 46, Snowflake Spiderweb

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This is 3 snowflakes joining together while sliding down a spiderweb!

Day 45, My Backyard

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I took all of these on Friday

and edited Friday night, posting at 1am, so its really Saturday, lol. Enjoy.

Day 44, Burnt Forest

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Day 43, Junk Yard

2007-04-12T18:25:00.000-07:00

I took these in my late best friends dads yard. He's a junk collector as you can see. You can find anything in this yard. The building covered in plates stands in the spot where my best friend died.

Day 42, The Little Things

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Day 41, Nest Peeking

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