family road trip!!

we are taking a road trip to San Francisco, CA, via Mt. Rushmore, with a 2 day layover in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park.

gone July 25th - August 3rd.

try to have pictures when i get back...

so long for now!

...for when i am weak...

...then i am strong.

new lens

nikkor 50mm f/1.8 = much fun.

fallen petal...


pooped-on light fixture.

small town, small reunion, small bug - with pictures

rochester, indiana (population, 6414), where my dad works once every other week because there's no full-time cardiologist there.

relatives visiting another relative (not shown) in Indy - my paternal grandmother's siblings. I have never met any of these people before; my father has not seen most of them in 30 years, some he has never met. (white balance is a little off.)

home. a bee helping make our house prettier. (soft focus due to slow shutter speed. 9:15PM, 200mm f/5.6, ISO800, 1/25s with VR)

attached

i looked in my wallet today and discovered my washu id still occupies one of the four credit card slots in my wallet...

when i went to open a new bank account, i needed two forms of identification. almost instinctively, i pulled out my driver's license and washu id - the lady opening my account asked me about school, and it felt weird to say that i was actually going to be a student at indiana university in the fall...

i'm still attached (i sometimes think that i'm still going back to saint louis in august...) but glad to be moving on.

but i don't plan on taking that out of there for another few months...