These are my two favorite recent pictuers.  The top one is a sunrise we had this week.  I played with the contrast and the saturation a bit to make the rays more evident but it really was this beautiful in real life.  The bottom is a Morning Glory at my mom's house.  It was around noon when the sun was really bright so it glowed.

I have been so neglectful of this blog lately.  This time of year it's just so hard to find the time to sit and actually put my thoughts down.  Everything is going pretty well as far as school goes.  Things at church are starting up and keeping me busier.  I have to get moving on the stuff for our next Photoclub meeting.  I'm also in charge of taking photos of new members at church for the bulletin board.  I only have two families to do but I am putting it off too long.  I suppose I just don't feel motivated in lots of areas.

I found Nicole a great camera for her birthday.  It's used but in excellent condition.  It's actually probably better than the camera I'm using.  RRRRRRRRRRRRRR  It's so hard to find a good Optical Zoom on a small digital camera but this one is great. 10x optical zoom (whereas mine has 8x).  It also has Image stabilization for shaky hands and it has a Leica lens. Iit's a Panasonic Lumix  DMC-TZ1.  It's only 5 mp but it should be perfect for Colee.  I sure wish I had a camera like that when I was 13.  Of course, I wish I had it now.  Actually that's not true.  I'd rather have my Olympus Evolt E-510 with the two lens package.    I WILL have it soon.  I just have to sell something...like the boat.  (yeah right...Mike would NEVER forgive me).  If I didn't have these medical bills hanging over my head it would be so much easier to justify a $1000 camera.  Freakin' GR opthamology...I have never felt so wronged by anyone in my life as I do by that woman who misdiagnosed me.    But I'm trying to forgive her.  Really.

Speaking of them...I got my medical records back from the lawyers and I was looking them over and realized my CRP test showed I was at a higher risk for Coronary Heart disease.  I'm thinking probably the test was wrong because I had that detached retina though.  I hope that is what it is.  I told Dr. A last time I was in there that I thought maybe I was having a heart attack once and he kindof wrote it off as a response to stress or something.  Geesh...I sound like a hypochondriac.  I guess I just figure there's got to be SOMETHING wrong with me.  But evidently I'm wrong.  Other than my stupid eye I'm the picture of health.  Oh and that Fibromyalgia thing but I still don't  believe that.  I think he just wanted to tell me something to shut me up.

I made my dad a picture of George Bush...I inserted My dad  into the picture with Photoshop so it looks as if he's standing there with George.  It didin't turn out quite how I wanted it to because most of the pictures I have of my dad are of him sleeping or sitting down.  I'll have to work on that so I can start doctoring photos more often.   I'm sure it's illegal but who's gonna know? (I don't normally do things illegally just because noone will know...just so you know)

Ok..I'm going to put the boys in bed...it's only 7:20 but I don't care.  They have been horrible horrible kids today with their hitting, pinching, not listening etc.  I offered a trade for Baraka but Khamala didn't want to take it...huh.  Wonder why?