Every morning I wake up, groggy and relaxed, and looking out my window I can see the sunlight shining on my neighbors power line connection on the roof of their house. For some strange reason, this pleases me.
Yes, I did tweak this image in Photoshop to give you that "just woke up and can see something cool through my bleary eyes" experience.

Macro shot of shapes and colors. Plastic beads for bracelets, necklaces, etc.

While babysitting Bella the other night with Meghan, we made some beaded bracelets. Bella really enjoyed the task. Meghan took this picture of Bella's little hand in the colorful beads.

Tiny bubbles in a water glass from last night. Maybe this picture would make a nice desktop/background image.

Cutting board with remnants from last night's dinner.

I can't resist putting up this cute shot of my little niece in her red velvet holiday outfit. She's showing me the puff ball on the top of her little "santa" hat. Have a great holiday, everyone!

Last Sunday we all went out to Minnetonka Orchards to pick apples and pumpkins and Bella had a great time -- eating apple donuts, climbing on hay bales, going on a hay ride, picking apples and pumpkins, and just watching the tractors. This was a really quick snap but I love how it turned out.

An experiment: the view from the champagne glass at Anita's wedding.

This is Jake at last night's 6th Annual Spring Dance Party. He loves music. Sometimes he has to make do when his guitar isn't around. This is a bit more animated, but Jake also has the indie-rock shoe-gazer pose down pat.

This picture is here just to show you the capabilities of the new Sony DSC-P71 digital camera that I wrote about in my main weblog. As you can see from the image, this little camera can capture some pretty amazing detail. I don't think I need to say much more.