Jason Lee ~ fabulously creative photography

I just came across this guy who makes these great photographs of his two little girls. Having adorable subjects doesn’t hurt.
Jason Lee’s photo blog
Jason’s Flickr photostream
I thought I could link to one of his photos, but that’s not working.

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Bailout for Dummies

Thanks to my cousin Dave for sending this, I thought it was hilarious.

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Ice

Thanks to y’all in the Midwest, this is what we got yesterday:

Fortunately, it wasn’t as bad for us as it’s been for our northern neighbors. It’s supposed to be in the mid-50’s today, although it’s now lunchtime and it sure doesn’t look any warmer out there, but if it does get up that high, the [...]

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UFO ~ Shelly’s Swirling Leaves

The picture on the sidebar doesn’t do this quilt justice because I was too lazy to color it scrappy, the way it was designed. Here’s one that someone else made, sorry I can’t find the source of this photo but it obviously came from a show. This quiltmaker decided against the half-square triangle inner border:

The [...]

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Free gift

While we were in San Antonio, this arrived in the mail:

The strap, not the camera. Because I listen to the “Digital Photography Life” podcast, I was able to take them up on their offer of a free strap from SmugMug. And I sure wish it had arrived before we left, because the day we spent [...]

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The problem with kitchen built-ins

When our house was built in 1987 it must have seemed like a good idea at the time to create a cabinet over the wall oven with a yawning cavern to house a microwave. Indeed, when we moved in in 1996 there was a Kenmore microwave there which I presume was the original one and [...]

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Another Big Brother houseguest sighting

While at the River Walk, we spied a “Life is Good” store and went up to check it out. This woman sold us 2 t-shirts and a dog collar:

That’s right, it was Nakomis from Big Brother seasons 5 and 7.
Our first BB sighting was in Richmond last year. We were at a Mexican restaurant with [...]

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San Antonio – 3 of 3

Kevin’s town pass expired on Saturday night so Erin and his family hung around the base with him on Sunday and we caught up with my cousin Sharon and her husband Bob. I found this old picture of the two of us in the summer of ‘68 I think. That’s not my sister Sharon’s holding, [...]

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San Antonio – 2 of 3

Since Kevin still had town pass on Saturday, we planned to take him and do the touristy things in town. His parents had a time share downtown and since parking is so expensive down there, they came and picked up Kevin and then us. From their hotel we walked to the River Walk, the Alamo [...]

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San Antonio – 1 of 3

Before we’d even left home Wednesday night, we had a crisis. I had a potato baking in the microwave (which I’d done a million times) and we were upstairs packing. Joey was downstairs barking but that’s nothing unusual, he’s a barky dog. When I came downstairs, the kitchen was full of smoke, pouring out of the microwave. [...]

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