photographically thinking

tornado...

2011-05-23T11:15:00.009-05:00

no explaining necessary...... it's just sad.

fall season with cody...

2010-10-18T10:41:00.007-05:00

you can tell by the look on his face we were doing
funny things to try and get him to smile...

it worked.

love.

interstate park...

2010-09-07T12:42:00.013-05:00

love how the trees grow right amongst all the rocks.

there was so many carvings in the wood... i liked this one. so cute.

crazy people climbing the cliffs.

anybody want to go swimming? ishy water.

my favorite picture of the day...giant mushroom growing on a tree.

i know i look just like the picture on the sign above...

i forgot my walking sticks at home though. oops.

the town of elkart lake, wi.

2010-08-19T12:18:00.013-05:00

such a beautiful cute little town. would definately live here. i could have posted probably a hundred pictures!

paddock club restaurant

lake street cafe

feed mill had a coffee shop, a home-kitchen store and a market store all in it.

walk down this alley and you will find..........

hot dogs. have a seat in the alley and eat a hot dog. funny.

no bicycle parking....funny.

the osthoff resort

2010-08-19T11:22:00.009-05:00

just a few picture of the beautiful osthoff resort in elkart lake wisconsin. loved it and cant wait to go back again someday.

please remember i did not edit any of these, so they are rough.

this is just one third of the resort.

beach with cody.

2010-07-01T11:16:00.009-05:00

went to the beach with cody and i just happen to have my
little camera with me. he loved it so much.
dressed and ready.

mommy and cody.

so happy.

just a boy and his boat.

chewing on his shovel.

the next gerber baby.

cody's 1st birthday...

2010-06-16T11:07:00.008-05:00

what a big man. he was so happy all day. it was truly a great day.

mmm.. cake and frosting.

elmo. still creepy to me.

opening presents with mommy and daddy.

even pooh bear came.

daddy built cody a new swing.

which he loves. alot.

the old man face.

2010-04-06T11:54:00.006-05:00

watching cartoons with cody and reload when cody turns and looks at me and starts laughing, and i get a picture of an old man laughing, so funny. i love watching cody once a week while his mommy is working because i get a chance to capture funny things like this.

watching...

laughing...

recovering...

my feet might be slightly bigger.

my nephew..so cute.

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jenga. . jenga . . jenga..

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can you see the consentration on my papa's face... love it.

orchids...

2010-03-15T10:22:00.009-05:00

i am admitting i have an orchid problem... i cant stop, they are just so pretty.

these are just a few of the many. . . . .

snow days 2010....

2010-01-20T11:24:00.006-06:00

poor tree...

2010-01-19T17:48:00.003-06:00

a bad storm this summer took the life of the tree on the left...sad.
taken january 21st 2009

taken january 19th, 2010

cody love....to start off the new year.

2010-01-06T12:39:00.006-06:00

somebody loves his toes. i took these with my camera phone so they are not the best quality.

cody? puppy? lamb? calf? cute?

2009-11-03T10:05:00.006-06:00

very cute!!!!! nice family picture, except for cody's scary eyes, he must have seen a ghost.

cody baptism...

2009-10-19T12:53:00.006-05:00

look who got baptised! i was trying to be quite so i was way in the back and trying to use my zoom so these pics did not end of up very good. some day when i get photoshop and i can lighten them up a bit. it was a happy day, and cody was so happy, no crying!
jen, ben and cody.

cody the supermodel.

2009-10-12T10:30:00.013-05:00

so we had photo session number two with cody, he did really well. he is so cute! this is a few of the good ones.
he is 4 1/2 months old.

jen and cody.

reload wanted to be part of the fun, can you blame him.

gerber baby!

love it.

re re.

blue eyes.

jen and cody day 1.....

4 months later.

hello montana

2009-10-08T13:51:00.005-05:00

drove to montana....so boring, even more boring than these pictures! i missed alot of good picture opportunities the last hour ( hour 18) of our drive because i was about to hurt someone, i was so car sick. but i missed so many beautiful things...boo. very disappointed in the few pictures i came home with.

one of the moutains was on fire while we were there..sad.

lake como

patricia welle 1927-2009

2009-10-01T16:14:00.007-05:00

this is my grandma and grandpa welle back in 1947. she is so beautiful! obviously i did not take these pictures, but i just love them so much that i wanted to share.

sunrise

2009-08-31T14:30:00.002-05:00

foggy sunrise this morning.

can you imagine having to take a bath in that?

sunsets and reflection...

2009-08-27T11:20:00.007-05:00

fire!

my favorite!!!!!!!

flowers at my house..

2009-08-27T11:05:00.005-05:00

so pretty.

clouds.

2009-08-27T10:49:00.003-05:00

i just want to take a nap in the clouds.

the clouds are holding the sun hostage. its like the devil on your left shoulder and an angel on your right shoulder.

coming soon.

2009-08-10T12:26:00.003-05:00

going to the MN zoo tomorrow, so check back later this week for some really good pictures. hopefully!
p.s. i am on page 30 of my digital SLR photographer for dummies book, only 270 left to go!

update on the mystery....

2009-07-29T10:47:00.002-05:00

i have a update on my june 25th post about the mystery doors, on my way home the other day i got really lucky and the home owner was out there and had the doors open. all it is is a opening to his property like a secret driveway. our imaginations were so much better, oh well. i am sorry i didn't stop and ask him if i could take a picture, i had a feeling he would think i was really crazy and call the cops.

home ala' desvousges

2009-07-16T10:50:00.013-05:00

i spent a few hours at the desvousges home last night and i really love it there. it is so entertaining, there are cats and dogs wrestling and an adorable family that i love. a little girl lauging and smiling then crying and then laughing again, which goes on all night. love it. can't wait to go back for more fun.

i put this one first because it is my favorite. gorgeous!

erin and sj.

sj and her daddy. so cute.

tired sj and her daddy.

me holding sj while erin took a few pictures.

me trying to get hugs and kisses. and no i am not trying to bite her ear off! lol.

erin took this one also, way to go erin.

sj and her beautiful blue eyes that just make me melt.

pedro watching mom cook, hoping she will drop something.

kitty is so pretty.

kitty and pedro playing, apparently they do this alot. it was so funny to watch them chase and nip at eachother.

richards boots. they just looked so cool.

Cody the supermodel.

2009-07-11T20:30:00.003-05:00

our first photo session with cody, imagine cody posing and me, jen, grandma and grandpa folsom all taking pictures at the same time. it was like his very own papprazzi! he did pretty well for the first 15 mins until we tried to do some wardrobe changes...

oh this supermodeling stuff is exhauting...big yawn

mommy and cody

gorgeous.

reload started to get jealous so we did some photos of him too.

i think he is a supermodel too, or at least he thinks so.

bath time

2009-07-10T11:17:00.005-05:00

during his diaper change cody decided to pee on me, his mommy and himself, and reload so his mommy decided it was bath time.

chilling in my whale tub...

crying in my whale tub....

sleeping in my whale tub....

sorry

2009-07-06T16:54:00.002-05:00

what a beautiful weekend and i still did not take any pictures! i will try to do better.

just call me mary poppins.

2009-06-30T12:41:00.005-05:00

reload and i watched baby cody for a little while today, we had alot of fun.

here we are watching tv.

Here we are sleeping, and by we i mean him.

and here we are streching, but still sleeping.

sorry about the quality of this picture i took it on my phone,

but it was to cute not to show.

mystery...

2009-06-25T12:11:00.003-05:00

i want to know what the crap is in this mysterious no trespassing dungeon. i pass it everyday on my way to work. grr, its a mystery.

outside the bathroom window...

2009-06-22T16:16:00.008-05:00

so i go in my bathroom friday night to take care of some business and i see this when i sit down on the toliet.... what? a pretty rainbow! oohh, so i did what any other person would do... go grab my camera and run back into my bathroom! lol.

so then i ran outside and to see the other end of the rainbow over my neighbors house across the street, so pretty.

then back to the bathroom to take some more pictures.

in my bathroom...

still in my bathroom...

then back outside to see the sunset over my neighbors house.

p.s. i am very aware that i am easily amused. i am sorry i am bringing you along for the ride.

sailing with the dietsche's...

2009-06-19T12:33:00.009-05:00

a few years ago i went to bayfield with the dietsche's, here are a few pictures from our trip. so much fun.

cody

2009-06-17T14:09:00.002-05:00

somebody has blue eyes!

slight change.

2009-06-16T12:39:00.003-05:00

this is the first pictures of the before and after series.
before....

after, 4 years later.

sj's goal list for 2009...

2009-06-15T16:26:00.004-05:00

1. fit my entire hand in my mouth. check.

2. run while my entire hand is in my mouth. check.

3. choke while running with my entire hand in my mouth. check.

p.s. erin took these pictures while i was chasing sj with her entire hand in her mouth.

a day with sj...

2009-06-15T15:54:00.014-05:00

i don't think there are words to describe how cute the following pictures of shirley jean are... she is my little super model.
p.s. i did not crop or alter any of these pictures. sorry

sj watching the fishys

my little prima ballerina.

tired eyes.

i wish it was this cute when i stick out my belly.

sj: this super modeling thing is so exhausting.

julie, erin and baby sj.

julie and sj

me and sj.

animals at the zoo...

2009-06-15T15:14:00.018-05:00

leggy flamingos.

cute zebra sides...

and backs.

a hungry giraffe....

and a necky giraffe.

a smiling lion.

and a hungry lion with a long tongue.

a pretty tiger.

a swimming sea lion.

a chilling monkey.

and some cool koi.

burrr.....

2009-06-09T14:12:00.001-05:00

if anyone is wondering why i have not posted any thing in a week, look outside. its friggin cold. its not very inspiring.

shirley jean

2009-06-04T12:14:00.005-05:00

sj i love you so much!
p.s. please don't throw up in my mouth.

look at her beautiful eye lashes... what a super model.

i would rather be naked also...

twlight

2009-06-01T11:18:00.007-05:00

this is what they call twlight, when an orchid's blossoms are starting to wilt and fall off. its so beautiful to watch it change everyday. if you look at the blossoms in this picture its amazing how perfectly it shows the transition of it wilting, the top one is still open then you move to the second one and its closing more then down to the third blossom and its about to fall off, then to the fourth one that has already fallen off and is laying on the leaf. amazing!

pretty bird

2009-05-28T11:37:00.002-05:00

meet baby cody

2009-05-26T11:22:00.008-05:00

welcome cody michael... he is so breath taking. we love him. its only been 3 days but you have brought us so much joy already.

cody and his beautiful mom.

proud papa

the four of us

electrifying

2009-05-22T13:30:00.002-05:00

chris took this picture and thought that i should share it. if you ask him to explain it or try to recreate it he can't. but we love it. way to go baby.

a sunday afternoon

2009-05-20T12:24:00.012-05:00

so me and my little brutie had a little afternoon discovery adventure in our yard on sunday... here is what we found.

some of my plants are blooming...

others not so much...

saw a cute little yellow butterfly, my photography skills are not quite good enough yet to catch him in action... this is all i got, he is in the bottom middle of the picture if you can't see, haha...

chris is a little sad about the invasion of the dandelions... i still want to pick them up and pop their heads off like we did when i was little, i think the song went, momma had a baby and her head popped off....

made a rock castle in the landscaping rock, the middle is made up of the pretty rocks and a tower of rocks and then it is surrounded by a black ring, then white ring, then a red ring of rocks...seriously i think i got a little carried away!

saw this strange stain in our driveway....

my thought is that chris usually parks the truck there and then brutus comes along and reminds us who the truck belongs to by peeing on it, and over time it stained...lol...

thats the end of our adventure, hope you enjoyed.

breath taking

2009-05-19T11:31:00.006-05:00

this is my favorite driveway ever, i pass it ever day and it makes me happy, its so pretty. this is the transformation these trees have made since february.

when your standing under them its breath taking.

sunsets in WI

2009-05-18T11:29:00.008-05:00

the sunset was amazing friday night! these are in the order that i took them. it looked like the sky was on fire!!!!!! blazing. the second one is bass lake.

the view in my rear view mirror was captivating.

drive bys

2009-05-08T11:19:00.007-05:00

i'm calling these pictures drive bys because i took them out of my sunroof while i was driving, dont worry i did not take my eyes off the road, which is the reason you can see power lines and the trees are side ways.

you can see the rain in the distance.

cactus

2009-05-05T15:42:00.002-05:00

believe it or not this is from grandpa and grandma's front lawn in AZ. i dont think it needs any more explanation. ha ha.

its a bird, its a plane, its a.....heron.

2009-05-04T10:16:00.005-05:00

how cool is he..

of course the second i go to adjust my settings on my camera he decides to fly and i get this... seriously! bad timing.

may day

2009-05-01T11:46:00.003-05:00

i wonder if the two birds in the picture are talking to eachother, and if they are what are they talking about? maybe about what a beautiful may day we are having.

hide and go seek. i see you.

smiley

2009-04-30T11:16:00.003-05:00

i took this picture of my friend's dog, his name is reload. is it just me or is he smiling?

how long?

2009-04-23T11:05:00.006-05:00

how long will it be til this bush turns back into.....

this bush.

horses ass

2009-04-22T10:43:00.007-05:00

my neighbors horses are so pretty so i stopped by one day to take some pictures and i'm thinking i stopped by at a bad time because.....

all i saw were a couple of horses ass.

the last snow day we had

2009-04-21T13:46:00.003-05:00

when i first saw these birds it was sorta creepy, there were so many of them. this picture doesn't do them justice.

the trees look endless giong down this driveway, i love it.

the willow river by our house

snow days

2009-04-21T13:32:00.005-05:00

i took these a couple months ago. the only reason i love snow is because of how amazing it looks when the snow attaches to the trees like this. the railroad tracks look like they never end.

its cold today

2009-04-20T10:00:00.005-05:00

its cold, but at least it doesn't look like this today.

seaweed feet

2009-04-18T16:08:00.000-05:00

winter tree

2009-04-18T15:30:00.002-05:00

if bob marley was a tree in the middle of winter his hair would look like this

reflection

2009-04-18T15:26:00.000-05:00

sunset in my rear view mirror

2009-04-18T15:19:00.001-05:00

orchid

2009-04-18T15:18:00.001-05:00

2009-04-18T15:13:00.002-05:00

i like to call this man the pirate man, i am not sure why he was collecting rocks and putting them in his lunch box, but who i am to judge!

the moon at our house

2009-04-18T13:27:00.003-05:00

one of the first pictures i took with my canon compact camera

my little brutus

2009-04-18T11:01:00.001-05:00

splitrock lighthouse in duluth

2009-04-18T11:00:00.002-05:00

my first post!

2009-04-18T10:54:00.001-05:00

hi!