Presents for a little one

Today was spent wrapping the presents that have

to be shipped to Salt Lake for my grandson.

Man, I wish I could be there to watch him open them!

Road Trip to Washington

Sunday, we drove to Lacey, Washington to get the

rest of my daughter's things out of storage.

This was the scene at 7:30 a.m. We stopped at the rest stop by Sprague Lake.

The temperature was 19 degrees and the wind was howling out of the north.

Any idea of stopping for future photo ops was gone.

This was the scene at the top of Snoqualmie Pass. Beautiful...

...and treacherous. Please ignore the massive cracks in the windshield.

The rest of the day was spent packing the truck and worrying about the return trip over Snoqualmie. Luckily, the snow had stopped and the roads were snow packed and sanded.

We're home again, safe and sound, and that's what matters.

Music, music, music

Other than a brief trip to the hospital this morning for my MRI (more on that on Monday) and an hour spent in Scott's shop painting a turtle with tennis shoes (more on that next Saturday), this has been my world today. I'm burning CD's as part of a work/Christmas project. It started this morning, and after a couple of minor (I hope) setbacks, I have 16 of 70 done.
Tomorrow is a road trip. Hopefully I'll have more interesting photos for you then.

Toys R Us

Spent an hour on Friday night shopping for the grand kids.

That's probably the most fun shopping trip of the season.

Ice on my Windshield

At least I spared you another shot of the Christmas Tree...

It's Bad

Today was a beautiful day: Bright blue sky, crisp air. I decided to take a picture of the City Christmas Tree on the way back from lunch. I was in a hurry and snapped a few quick shots and went back to work, satisfied that my "photo for the day" had been satisfied. Imagine my dismay when I got home from work and uploaded the photos, The tree was in the shade of the building and as a result, my beautiful blue sky is completely blown out.

In every stinking photo.

I know there were some in-camera adjustments I could have made to fix this.
There are probably things I could have done in Photoshop as well,
to salvage the shots. But it's beyond my level of experience.

And I'm in too much pain to care.
I hurt my shoulder during the trip to Salt Lake at the beginning of November.
I'm having an MRI on Saturday to determine if it's "just" a bad case of bursitis
or a torn rotator cuff.

And because I'm grumpy and in too much pain
to figure out how to fix these photos,
we all suffer.

To add insult to injury, I'm going to try to get the photos right again tomorrow.
Straight out of the camera.
Stay tuned.

Social

The Commissioner's Christmas Social was tonight.

The decorations were beautiful.

So was the food.