A Bird, A Flower, A Butterfly

Black Swallowtail FL 2015

White Oleander, Jupiter FL 2015

Young Sandhill Crane FL 2015

I have been going through some of the photographs in my collection. The crane and butterfly were images from the Stuart Youth Trek in July 2015.  The oleander is growing outside of our Chapel in Jupiter FL. 

Brent gave me a wonderful camera years ago and another really cool one just a month ago.  I haven't taken the time to master either . . . . but I enjoy puttering around with both of them.  While Nathan was getting his new phone (early Christmas present) registered, I waundered around the store, looking at the computers.  My desk computer is late-2009 and the laptop that I am using right now came into my life mid-2010.  In today's terms, I am working with Middle Aged Tools.  The baby that I would like to take in hand is a 15 inch MacBook Pro with a 1 Terabite memory.  

Perhaps next Christmas?  

Our home is full of noise right now.  Caleb and Lauren are home with us during the day. We have a tread mill (for me) and an elliptical machine (for Nathan) to use while we watch TV.  That brings more motion into our home than I've seen in a long time.  

This isn't really much of an essay.  The pictures aren't really much to look at.  I just wanted to check in and make sure that I still had something in my head.

Tonight Brent invited me to go for a walk on the beach--as long as we didn't talk about the kids.  It was wonderful.  Tomorrow he offered to go with me to one of the parks and use the cameras he's given me.  I'll have more to write about and more photos to share tomorrow evening.  

I can hardly wait.