The zoo, reading, vacuuming...

By c :)

Feeding alpacas at the Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah.

Ry loves looking through his books and reading with us. He'll pick out his favorites and bring them to us to read with him. This is one of Mama and Auntie Lainie's books from when they were little.

Ry is fascinated by the vacuum and loves to help with his little vacuum. Alejandro, however, doesn't care for the vacuum one bit!

Adventures in coloring.

Mmmmm... spaghetti! Or noonoos as Ry would say.

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Good times at home

By c :)

Some fun pics of Ry from the last several months...

The 5 o'clock tickle fest with Dada!

Our little rock star.

Helping Mama in the kitchen and trying the hot mitt on for size.

Ry loves helping with the laundry!

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Crazy Alejandro

By c :)

We love our kitty. He continues to make us laugh...

Both Alejandro and Ry are entertained by the laser pointer!

It's really all fur.

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Ry in the snow

By c :)

Welcome to my first blog appearance :). It snowed a few inches at our house this week! Ry was curious about the snow and had fun tromping around in it.

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walking

Recently, Ry and I have been walking down the road to explore all the nearby playgrounds. It takes a long time to get anywhere without a stroller, but I think it's much more fun. Charlie says the cuteness is going to cause traffic accidents.

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Ry, the Little Climber

Ry is now able to climb the stairs at the little playground. He makes some really cute faces with all that effort too...

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December 21 2010 Lunar Eclipse Naples FL

The weather in Naples, FL on December 21, 2010 was clear enough to allow me to get some lunar eclipse photos. I found the NYIP eclipse page very helpful for timing and exposure guidance.
I used a Canon 50D, EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS and an EF 2x ii.
Exposing for 2 seconds or more was enough to for the moon's movement to blur the photo. With the EF-2x on, apertures wider than F/8 didn't seem sharp enough. ISOs above 800 seemed to lose too much detail to noise. I only used IS while focusing in live view. And a cable release and mirror lock up seemed to help.

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