The life and times of a true knucklehead – No photos to be used without permission
Tonight we charted new territory by participating in a progressive dinner with a few of our neighbors. Appetizers were at the Heidi & Michael’s (happy birthday, Heidi!), salad was at our place, Ophelia prepared a leg of lamb and dessert was at Lynn & Bill’s place. Luckily the distance was reasonable which worked out great as we didn’t have to worry about driving. I made some nice pumpkin martini’s.
Fun with the family, as usual. Enough food to feed an army, as usual. The worst part of the evening? While I was carving the burd Noah got his 1st taste of turkey… he absolutely hated it, spit it out in dramatic fashion. I would have loved to have captured that moment.
I’d like to introduce Alicia Maria Kinney, just 2 weeks old. We drove up to Folsom to photograph her. Sandy asked me if this was gonna be a complex setup with lights & sandbags. Luckily yesterday I received my new 4 square softbox in the mail. My friend Jim turned me on to this great little portable lighting accessory.
Today we celebrated Jennifer’s birthday at Ed’s Teriyaki. I had the teriyaki cheesesteak, I know that sounds strange but it was actually pretty darn good. Of course Noah was getting all the attention.
Today we met Aunty Amy, Cait, Chris, Tami & Noah at the Blue Dot Cafe & Coffee Bar for a late breakfast. Then we brought Aunty Amy to the local farmers market and we walked away with a carnivorous orchid which I have yet to ID. While photographing the orchid, I happened to look down at a Spotted Tussock Moth Caterpillar. I spent the next 10 minutes trying in vain to capture its image. It wouldn’t sit still and it reminded me of a sheep dog. It was very difficult to see its face.
Wait it’s got the same hair as Noah. I hope Noah doesn’t turn into a moth. Tami if Noah starts to weave a cocoon please call 911.
Semi annual maintenance is what brought me to the islands this time. Or maybe it was the ramen. For whatever reason lately I’ve been on this ramen kick and my photos reflect this trend. I finally got my free cup of coffee from the Honolulu Coffee Company, it only took 2 years to accomplish this.
I did manage to see Christy & Dan at an all too short breakfast at Zippy’s Makiki.
We finally went up to Lake Tahoe after putting it off for so many months. Other than the beauty of the area we wanted to visit Jimi & Amy (Maverick too). Unfortunately for us Amy was down in the bay area and Jimi’s availability was limited, so we made the best of the Tahoe scene by ourselves. The weather was great, cold in the morning and quite warm in the afternoon.
The hike down to Emerald Bay was nice and easy. Coming back up about killed us. We had to stop numerous times pretending to take photos when were really catching our breath.
Vikingsholm at the edge of Emerald Bay.
Fanette Island in the middle of the bay.
Needless to say we did stop by while Jimi was working at Kalani’s.
The following afternoon Jimi took us to Taylor Creek to view the Kokanee Salmon spawn (fish porn). It was a bit upsetting to find out that as soon as the salmon bury their eggs the Mallards dig em up and eat em.
Maverick had to stay home as he is prone to jumping in the water and pulling the fish out only to lick them. He’s not a killer.
Whoops forgot about the fotos from Sandy’s camera…
We paid Tami, Noah, Auntie Amy & Cait a visit to watch the football game. Not. I have no idea who won or who was even playing. All I know is we got to eat RT pizzas & play with Noah & Koa.
Got a hold of a couple of used strobes via Ebay – I plan on using my Alien Bees AB400 alot. Did a test tonight and had trouble getting the strobes to fire consistently. By the time I got a PC sync cord hooked up it was too late. I still need some work on my lighting set up.
