Photos

I have years' worth of photographs in piles of envelopes stored in boxes around my house. We never do anything with them. It seems a shame, but I steadfastly refuse to become a scrapbooking geek at this age. There's time enough for that when I'm old and dottering -- or older and more dottering, anyway.

The digital camera seemed to be the answer to my problems. No envelopes, no boxes, no duplicates or lousy shots! Make infinite copies of the good ones and delete the baddies! Uh-huh. On my various hard drives I have -- you guessed it -- folders upon folders of digital images that I don't use but can't delete. Obviously, the photographic media isn't the problem. Someday I'll burn all the images to CDs which I'll store, uncatalogued, in envelopes and boxes.

Please allow me to share a few pics from this year.



Jackson after his first communion.



La Familia: Aunt Patti, Andrew, Jackson, Julie, Grandma and Grandpa



Catalpa blossoms. Sadly, they don't last long. After only a few days they fall and cover my lawn with white-and-yellow-ness, as if spilled from a giant bag of popcorn.



The tree, abloom.



Tiger lily.



Jackson and classmates upon a pile of dragon's gold at the Toledo Zoo.



Andrew at the West Middle School honors assembly. The medal is for his gpa; the trophy is for being one of the "Top Twenty Scholars" throughout his middle school career. The slouching posture is for being cool.



Christian Nationalists whooping it up in the Independence Day parade.





A couple of Elvii from this summer's Elvisfest. {Note: These pictures are not explicitly authorized by the promoters of Elvisfest or by%