Candles and apples.......I wonder if they will be the next inanimate objects to become animate and try to eat me. Maybe I should talk to someone about these thoughts....I wonder if they can be controlled with medication....food for thought!

Ahhhh.......more napkins. Almost soothing. Until....you realize that they have become animate objects!!!

Flowers! Ugh....I think I am going soft. All of these shots are of flowers. Next it's going to be drawings of unicorns. Uh-oh.

Some more cutlery and glasses. I think that glass is much cooler when it is broken, but my mother was going to bury me alive if I broke her special glassware. *sigh* Oh the perils of creative photography!

This is my other napkin shot. Luckily for all of us, they have again become inanimate.

I thought that this shot was a bit interesting. I think that I moved my arm a little during the shutter rotation. Now it sort of looks like the napkins are moving. Uh-oh! Attack of the inanimate-but-now-animate objects!

"The Thanksgiving Table" - (you can see my lack of brains when that was the most exciting name I could think up)

Mardi gras!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oooooh, colors....

SOMBREROS!!!! Well......only the edge. My gigantic sombrero was to gigantic to fit in the frame. Right now it is sitting on my stuffed little elephant.

Fiery.........stuff. WAIT! Let us all mourn another loss of Thought.

Crud! I really, cannot, for the life of me, remember what I was going to say....... :(

Look! Fake apples in a fake leaf bowl! O...M...G...

"Metal Leaves....the movie you must narrate yourself!" coming this January....in select theaters only......(all of this said in a deep and manly voice)

Fire...................watch out Dr. Stocker......it is coming for you..... :D

Spidery web! (But I think all of the spiders got frozen off.)

Birdy house! I hope there are no freezing little birdies inside...but if there are, they are probably enormously fat, like all other birdies we see, and can use there extra padding.

It looks like a dead branch, it tastes like a dead branch, but is it really a dead branch?

-PS. No actual tasting of dead branches happened in this experiment.

-PPS. No dead branches were harmed in this experiment.

Berries, berries, all covered in snow....aw crud! I can't think of anything that rhymes.

Mwahaha! I now have 60 pictures taken, posted and fantasticallized (a new word made up by yours truly. Fantasticallized means "to be made fantastic by someone") and I still have over 300 to go! (305 if you are an itchy technicalities person) These next few posts I am focusing on winter (I know that I have a lot of focuses) and snowy stuff. I like snow.... Hope you enjoy these next posts, but if you don't, well....you will. :)

I thought that this shot was a bit cool, in the progression of stepping stones. I had tried to make foot prints on the snow at first, but after deciding it was crud I let the snow cover it and tried again. I think that this looks much better.

A snowy little pathway into the Great Beyond!

More little Japanese Maple leaves! An abundance of Japanese Maple leaves!

Our Japanese Maple is slowly losing weight. In fact, it now looks like a bunch of sticks glued together and covered with snow. Poor little tree.

I love this shot. Probably my best of the day. Although....nah. Its the best.

I swear, these flowers are scaring me! They all decide to suddenly come out all of a sudden just yesterday! Agh! Attack of the mysterious flowers! (These are not normal flowers!)

Icy flowers...poor little icy flowers....*sigh*

The flowers must be really cold...poor flowers...I kind of want to put a little blanket on them.

Our flowers seem confused. They decided to bloom just yesterday. Hmm....we have weird flowers...

So we have just had, officially, 1 full inch of snow!...on Mercer Island! It is 29 degrees out and I am freezing my butt off. This was my backyard this morning.

The old married couple reading the paper. That's the real boat life.

The unsuccessful fisherman....I did not see any fish coming out of the water's depths that evening.

The little sailorette...cute.

Morning sunrise in the harbor.

The masts of boats against the sunset.

More and more flowers!!!!!!

Daisy got all tired on our car ride.

Zoe saw a squirrel. Uh-oh.

Zoe actually posed for this picture, but turned her head at the last second.

So this is Zoe (my aunt's cuter than cute and amazingly awesome pit bull)...aka COW....or so named so by a young girl my aunt saw at a dog park. So here's how the story goes.

My aunt went to a dog park in the summer with Zoe, and Zoe was running around a playing and having a blast when my aunt hears, "Hey! Look! It's a cow!" So she looks over and a little toddler is pointing at Zoe who has just passed in front of her. So then, somehow, she and Zoe run into the family and the young girl again, and the little girl points again and says to her older sister, "Hey! Look! It's another cow!" and her sister goes, "No, it's the same dog." and the little girl goes, "Oh."

Well, 20 more pictures have been posted, and I have 325 more pictures to take to reach my goal. These next few posts are going to be focusing on DOGS....because dogs are AWESOME...and CUTE...and ADORABLE...and....yeah. So.....I am going to be focusing specifically on my aunt and uncle's dogs. (Daisy the Wonder Wiener Dog, and Zoe, the cuter than cute and amazingly awesome pit bull...aka COW.) So, hope you enjoy the following posts!

Someone's a tired pup......oh god....she's so cute! (This is Zoe, my aunt's cuter than cute and amazingly awesome pit bull.)

All the boats lined up for the night.

-Poet's Cove, Canada

'Tis Daisy! The Wonder Weiner Dog!

(my uncle's dog, Daisy, is a mini Dachshund)

MORE pretty flowers.....by now my cousin would be staring, mesmerized, at the computer, saying, "Pretty flowers, pretty flowers..."

Pretty flowers.

The meadow we ate lunch at was beautiful.

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.

We ate at this pond, and there was an uber cool reflection....had to take a picture.

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.

Ahhhh....Mt. Rainier......Ok, funny story. Gotta tell it. Seems to fit.

So my brother's god father is some sort of bio-physicist/chemist (I honestly don't know) and he was trying to decide where to hold this big convention in Seattle. So while he and his bio chemist/physicist friend were at the Palicades Restaurant, and they had a view of Mt. Rainier. So they ask a waiter how tall the mountain is, and he says, "I dunno, around 4,000 feet I think, but I'll go ask." Ok, so 7 for 7 waiters do not know how high Mt. Rainier is. Then they get the chef from the kitchen, and he says, "It's around 14,400 feet." So, moral is, if you're gonna work in a fancy restaurant with a view of Mt. Rainier, know how high it is! :)

I like taking pictures of water now......

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.

Here's the falls altogether.....amazing.

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.

The Spray Park waterfall was breath taking.....and a picture taking moment too.

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.

My family and I went on a hike up at Spray Park, in Mt. Rainier National Park, this past weekend. Got some pretty good shots of the mountain and the wild life.....or lack there of....

Lots of little creeks on this climb.....and water is so beautiful.....

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA.

It's a pig! And pigs are so awesome I had to take a picture.....