Wordless Wednesday: Little Leaves

From our last hike in the Fall.  Who could be hiding behind those little leaves?

It's just the three people I love most, that's all.

Wordless Wednesday: Hark!

Wordless Wednesday: Birthday Edition

Happy 235th Birthday, United States Marine Corps. Thank you for your service.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.

The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee.

The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.

-Aaron's Blessing

Wordless Wednesday: Vacation Adventures (Part I)

I did manage to rescue him and get him home safely. More pictures later, I'm sure.

Wordless Wednesday: Tiny Dancer

Okay, so she's not very tiny any more. But she's my Little Girl. I took these portraits of her in her ballet costume from last school year. The recital was in May.

Wordless Wednesday: One, Two, Three ... JUMP!

From a recent swimming party at our home. Notice that girl on the far right...she totally faked everyone out!

Wordless Wednesday: Ingalls Homestead

Wordless Wednesday: High Tea at Anne Hathaway's Cottage

While visiting family in South Dakota, we had an opportunity to have High Tea at the Anne Hathaway Cottage in Shakespeare Garden, Wessington Springs, SD.

Even the men attended! (We needed seven of us for the tea, and one of the ladies who volunteers there - and is friends with Travel Man's grandparents - completed our party of eight.)

Wordless Wednesday: Indianapolis Children's Museum

Outside the museum:

Lucille (yes, the Lucille):

James Hetfield's '53 Skylark (he's got a matching guitar and amp, too):

Glass sculpture that's five stories high:

View from under the sculpture (I'm planning on blowing up at least one of these for the girls' room):

I was told that this was the best children's museum in the country. There's no denying it's definitely the biggest (five stories filled with exhibits, displays, hands-on, a planetarium, and a children's theater).

But the level of cool there is unmatched. In addition to the items above, they've got exhibits on Barbie (complete with a #1 Barbie doll and a lot of memory-inducing displays!), Etch-a-Sketch (it's 50 years old now, and there are some people who make more than stairs on them), and the exhibit on rock stars' guitars and cars (I saw two guitars that were Elvis', the Axe Guitar from Gene Simmons, one of Jimmy Hendrix's, etc., plus some really beautiful cars and a checkered John Deere). This isn't even counting the ongoing dinosaur exhibit with actual paleontologists on hand who answer questions about the actual dinosaur bones they are extracting from rocks in front of you!

Sometimes, bigger is better.

Wordless Wednesday: Yumpin' Yimminy!

The girls had a fabulous time swimming on vacation. They now wish we had a diving board for our above-ground pool.

Wordless Wednesday: In Which I Reveal I Can't Sleep Late on Vacation

I was up for the sunrise most mornings on vacation. I don't know why. I can't get up early if I try most days at home, especially if I need to be up.

Ah, well. Here are a couple of sunrise shots, taken from our (screened-in) balcony in our vacation unit. Others can be seen here, at my MobileMe gallery.

Wordless Wednesday: Hiding

More Wordless Wednesday posts can be found at the W.Wed. main site.

Wordless Wednesday: The Moon isn't Made of Green Cheese...

...it's made of Oreos!

Welcome to third-grade science, where subject matter is edible!

Wordless Wednesday: Sun-Dappled Mountains

I took these as a storm was rolling in. I loved how the sunlight was illuminating parts of the mountains! (Note: I didn't retouch these at all, it was just that pretty.)