neighbors and poochies

This is (L-R) my neighbor Victoria, her dog Lady, and Victoria's daughter, Hope. Victoria and I (and usually her friend Kathryn) walk dogs near every morning. Hope visited this past week from college in Omaha. I dug out the camera gear, of course.

Where the Wild Things Are

How cute does this thing look? Spike Jonze seems like he's on top of it!

would you like another cactus.....????

Welcome to the Cactus Hotel! You can check-in any time you want, but you can never enter!

twitter, tweetin', and facebook

OK,
I'm trying out all the fancy technologies that the young people seem to like. I'm on Facebook, although I don't really understand what I'm supposed to get out of it. And I just signed up with Twitter and it's the same story there.

So... I'll check 'em once and awhile if anybody wants to leave a message there.

Thanks,
Ron

one from yesterday

Yup, Dawn's newlywed boss and his newlywed bride. Not too shabby if I do say so myself!

pix from friday's rehearsal din

Just a pair of adorable kid pix from Friday night. Shot the rehearsal dinner for the wedding of Dawn's boss, Principal Lineberry. The two girls belong to his fiance, Erin. He has a boy, too (not the young fellow in the second pic). Today they all become one big happy. Congrats!

Dogstrip

Just a four-fer of me ol' dog, Cos', making faces. You can never go wrong with that. (click on it for a slightly larger version)

greetings and exercise

Hullo Everybody!

First off, to all those who have expressed well-wishes about my health, thank you very much. And you'll be happy to know that I am feeling much, much better. Good enough to get some exercise (more on that in a second) and good enough that I am very much looking forward to my very busy photographin' weekend.

Tomorrow I shoot a rehearsal dinner related to Saturday's wedding of Dawn's boss, the principal of her school. I rented some fancy lenses that should be arriving today and I'm all excited about that. Then Saturday, we shoot the wedding, of course. Then, on Sunday, I'm covering a birthday party for a one-year-old! It is a paying job, but I've also been promised food. So now we're talking my language! (Related to my recent ills, or more precisely the med I'm on to help my ills, I'm very peckish all the time. Where's the next meal? What can I nibble on? Quick, servant, get me a milkshake! It's not all bad.)

Anyway.... yesterday, we saw Annette, Glenn, and little Jack. Annette was fighting a cold, but Glenn and Jack joined Dawn and Cosmo and me for a jaunt out into nature. We went to Papago Park in the north of Tempe, near the zoo and the botanical gardens. We climbed a little walking mountain called Hole in the Wall (because it has a big hole in the middle). Wasn't much of a hike, but I'm out of shape (I'm in shape -- round is a shape) so it was probably just as well for starters.

Didn't even take a camera. Can you believe it?

Then, just to defeat what little good we might have done and to appease my hunger issues, we went for a superburger at the Chuck Box in Tempe. One of the finest burgers around these parts. let me tell you. Note: Don't go at noon! Huge line. They were having people shout out their orders from halfway back in the room!

In the evening, I talked Dawn into a short bicycle ride around our neighborhood. So, more exercise! Gotta get the muscles stretched out before the weekend. Wedding shooting can be surprisingly hard on my back, neck, legs.

OK, that's all I got. Thanks for reading. Later!

san xavier mission

San Xavier Mission in Tucson, AZ. Beautiful church with a lot of history.

Space Cowgirl and the Biplane Kid

Astronaut Sketch met Ace Ronnie and a lofty time was had by all......

Pima Air and Space Museum

Hullo Everybody~

Dawn is on Spring Break! So, of course, we're straight off to the white sands beaches of Cancun! Ha, I wish! But we thought we would get out and do something. So, today we ventured down to Tucson to the Pima Air and Space Museum and then to the famous San Xavier Mission. Can you guess which location the above picture is from?

Dawn earned her wings in no time at all. So keep your eyes to the skies to see her buzzing your house any day now!

Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

OK, just saw this over at Sharon's site and I gotta pass it around.

Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

it's just terrific.

R

a no post post of postiness

Hey everybody~

I haven't blogged in a couple of weeks, because.....

I've been under the weather and nothing's been going on, really. Dawn is busy and I'm still dreaming of being busy. Although I have several jobs at the end of this month. It'll be good to shoot something. And, like any good hunter, I always eat what I shoot. (huh?)

Anyhoo.... Dawn has next week off for spring break. There has been some talk of a jaunt up to Flagstaff. We'll see. Cosmo is good. Dawn gave him a bath on Saturday. Now he smells a nice.

That's about it for me. I'll try to get back on the blog bandwagon. Hope all is well for all of our friends and family and we're thinking about you and we miss you!

R