Happy Valentine's Day

Not my dog, as a matter of fact not even my photo but I thought it was cute. Oh when I say "not even my photo" it doesn't mean I stole it, I found it in the microsoft office clip art section.

Covington Kentucky

So I headed down to the river today, with camera in hand when I came upon, in my opinion, a rather strange happening. Maybe it is just me but who would want to go kayaking on the Ohio River in February? So as I watched I noticed a man with a microphone and a large professional movie camera. My second thought was that this had to be the George Clooney movie that they have been taping in the Cincinnati area for sometime now. This just had to be a scene from the movie. Not as impressed as I thought I should have been I took some photos anyway, went home started to go through my photos when I noticed the rather large piece of driftwood. I mean come on that thing is huge.

I love this door, it is built into the side of a small hill. I am sure it is used for storage but every time I see it I have this overwhelming urge to knock on it to see if someone opens the door. I have to admit that if it started to open I would also have an overwhelming urge to....run.

Happy Groundhog Day

I guess the little fella saw his shadow today which means that spring is just around the corner. Finding that hard to believe as I am looking out the window and watching the snow fall.

New Blog

As you can obviously tell my enthusiasm for taking photographs has pretty much been non existent. This winter has driven me to stay indoors. I have always been a winter person, love the snow, never really complained about the cold, this year with snow storm after snow storm, cold temperatures that have made me feel as though I am living in the arctic and now starting shortly our first ice storm. UGH!! I have found venturing out into the world a complete struggle.

I pass by my camera every day, stare at it with frustration hoping that today I will be inspired, then I walk to the kitchen to check out the temperature, any motivation that I had felt quickly disappears, temperature outside is 8 degrees, another day goes by, my camera will not see light today either.

One difference that tonight brings is I have actually started surfing the web again to find the inspiration that I have so desperately been searching for. I have had a desire to photograph urban decay, urban landscaping and step out of my comfort zone and try my hand at street photography. I thought that since this is quite unique for me that I would create a new blog. I will post the address for the new blog on here. Stay Tuned!!!

Just so you know though, today doesn't look and tomorrow, well it doesn't look good either. I hope soon, very soon.

Lake St. Clair Near the Condo. New Baltimore, MI

Been so cold around here thought I would upload pictures of the lake to remind me that summer really does exists. I usually do not mind winter at all but this year it has been exceptionally cold and snowy.

Mike, Danielle & Sammy

They were enjoying a rare no snow day on the east coast.

Mike & Danielle

I really believe that Mike is thinking "I think I'm in pain."

Happy New Year