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

Paczki

Oooooh, it's Fat Tuesday! Sure wish I had me a Paczki! Eat 'em up, yum! A jelly for D and a custard for me, please! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Road Runner Sighting

Note: this is not my picture. However, I just saw this bird wandering around outside the Queen Creek, AZ post office, not ten feet from me! A real live road runner, genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, Cuculidae! Time to place an order from the Acme Co. and fast!

Mom's Birthday!

It's my Mom's birthday today! Marylyn is 72 years this fine day! She doesn't have a computer, so she'll never see this, but those of you that know her may want to drop a line.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM! Love, Ronnie, Dawn and Cosmo!

Johnson Ranch Daddy Daughter Dance

Another DDD (Daddy Daughter Dance), this time for our community here at Johnson Ranch from the 13th. So cute.

Karoake Night!

That school of Dawn's...... they sure like to keep things lively! Reading night, or math night, or orientation, or a music presentation, movie night, meet with Santa, daddy/daughter dance, or, OR! even karaoke night!

Yup, Harmon Elementary hosted a karaoke night and the kids (and some teachers) got up and warbled a few bars for fun (and presumably FUNdraising). The kids seemed to have fun. And even the ones that weren't singing were enjoying the pizza. Mmmm, that looked good....

Birthday Girl!

That's right! It's Dawn's birthday! Woo-hoo! Yee-ha! Happy Birthday, Dawn! I love you!

carousel time

Here's Annette and Jack playing around with a 97 year old carousel that is listed on the National Registry of Historic Carousels.

When I'm 97 I better get on some sort of National Registry of Historic something or others. Hmmm... bald guys? Cantankerous reprobates? Left handed loogy lobbers?

As you can imagine, I'm open to snarky suggestions!

The Trikin' Tike

Jack

Met up with Glenn and Annette and, of course, Jack, today to play at Schnepf Farms and get a bite to eat. Here's Jack before we got to the petting zoo.

Bride's Choice Award for 2009!

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that Ron Warren Photography has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means Ron Warren Photography is one of the very best photographers.

Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.

“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”

We'd like to thank our past clients for speaking on our behalf and helping us win the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award!

daddy/daughter dance

On Saturday I shot formals at a daddy/daughter dance at Dawn's school. Here's one of 'em. Aw, ain't they cute?

ultimate geek multimedia

Stole this from Sharon's site. It's a little long, but hard to stop watching...

W and G

A wee bit of Wallace & Gromit, Governor! Much more entertaining than looking at my pasty mug with the hardboiled egg topper!

I shaved for this!?!?!

my friend frondy

This image is all about being a little lazy and a little colorful. Walked into the backyard yesterday, shot the palmy frond, and voila! color and a few nice compositional elements.

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