Blueberry Festival and Youth Talent Show 2008

Video of Hayley's dance for the Youth Talent Show.
She danced to Gwen Stefani's "Harajuku Girls".

Nice Miss, Brandon!

Lens Day: Movement

Looking Brighter

Yay. New hard drive (and OS, and updates, and software, and...and...and) installed, and life is back to normal. Of course, that means it's as crazy as usual -- plus or minus a few trials and tribulations.

If not for Flickr, I would have lost this photo along with the others. Thankfully, I had the sense to upload pretty much everything I wanted to keep before the hard drive crashed. Sometimes it pays to play it safe.

Going Buggy

Well, the hard drive is dead. It has only been a day, and I'm going buggy already. Probably won't be posting much for a while, unless I keep coming to use the library computers...which probably won't happen often. Can't upload photos or anything on their computers either. :^(

Speckled Feather and Fuzzy Weeds

Macroday: Fuzz
(Click to enlarge in order to see the "Fuzz". Hint: It's not the feather.)

This makes the fourth post in one day. I know...scary, isn't it?

Get Down with Nature

See It Sunday: Connection

The mushroom cap's connected to the mushroom stem....
(to the tune of the song that tells us the thigh bone's connected to the hip bone...)

Sometimes what you find at ground level is much more interesting. This is one of those situations in which looking down is much more inspiring than looking up. Of course, you could look up while being down. Either way, it works.

My Food Creation

While Hayley spent most of the day bagging groceries at EconoFoods (part of the 8-18 Media fundraising plans to help cover the costs for the two Convention teams), I headed out to Park Cemetery to take some photos around the ponds. When it got close to dinner time, and Hayley still wasn't home, I searched the refrigerator and cupboards for something simple to throw together for myself.

There wasn't much to choose from, since I haven't been able to do my normal large-scale grocery shopping for the month. What I decided to do was take a flour tortilla, brown it in oil, then set it aside on some paper towels to soak up the excess oil. In the meantime, I fried some chopped white onion in margarine, sliced up half of an avacado and sprinkled it with salt. After the tortilla cooled off, I spread some sour cream over it, then topped it off with a shredded taco-seasoned cheese mixture, the avacado slices and fried onion. Once that was all put together, I sliced it up and ate it like you would a pizza.

It was really good, but I think I'll make some changes if I make it again. For starters, I'll probably mash up the avacado and put that on the bottom. The sour cream was a bit too thick, so I'll just dab some on the top of the "pizza" next time. I'm guessing it'd be good with tomato on it as well, but 1) I don't have any, and 2) I'm not fond of them unless they're cooked in chili or something.

I'm sure there are a lot of ways to do this easy meal. So be creative! :^)