This should be MY license plate!

Saw this while waiting to merge onto a street. I need to challenge this guy to a cook-off. Winner gets the license plate!
Fat Cat Happy Meal Toy

I brought out all my old cars for the kids to play with. They’re having a blast even if they don’t know who any of the old McDonald’s toys are representing. I have the Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers DVDs, but the kids haven’t shown interest in it yet. (They find it way scarier than Duck Tales)
Some Têt 2108 Portraits
A took a bunch of photos during Têt this year, but just wanted to share a few formal portraits I took and a photo from dim sum.

Look at this doggie sweater!

Têt 2108

Têt 2108

Têt 2108

Stella Portraits (March 2018)
Stella saw us taking photos of Scarlett and wanted to have some portraits again. So here are her portraits.

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Scarlett 6 Year Old Portraits
Holy Moly she keeps getting older and older!

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Ice Fractals on my Window
One morning I opened the curtains and found this on my window. It’s the first time I didn’t just find regular condensation on that window.

ice fractals on window
Eagles at Conowingo Dam (Jan 2018)
For the past couple years (ever since my mom got back into photography), I’ve been trying to get her to come in the winter to go photograph American Bald Eagles at Conowingo Dam. They tend to be there from around November to about early January and I usually go in December. This year at the semi-last moment she decided to visit and I suggested we go try and photograph some eagles. So she brought her long lens and we took off. Of course, the one day we had available to do this also happened to be the coldest day of the 2017-2018 winter so we were physically being tortured. I had told her ahead of time to make sure to get long johns, so we didn’t get hypothermia.
Playing with Snow
First substantial snow of the season happened in December and it was warm enough for the kids to go play outside. A few shots from that day:

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Playing with Water Outside (late fall 2016)
The kids were having fun and I was shooting photos so I could have fun, too.

Mixing Water

Getting more water

Dropping a stone

Tea-Time with Sam

Tea-Time with Sam

Tea-Time with Sam

Trapped

Caught!

Chalking

Chalking

LEAVE ME THE #(&# ALONE

Pursed Lips
