Woodpress

Today I made an origami bird for one of my children, and came up with the idea of printing a bird pattern on the paper prior to folding it, so it would look more realistic. Here’s the end result:

I’ve made a few. My kids really like them.
I made the pattern by marking up a folded [...]

Tuesday was our office’s annual Lagoon party. (Lagoon is a local amusement park.)
I took many photos of my family and other Lagoonishness.
I think this is my favorite:

I posted a selection of other favorites on Flickr.

I recently took a picture of one of my mother’s cats.

Last night I spent a few hours experimenting and touching it up, and came up with a version that I really like.

Detail:

Today I got an 8×10 print from Costco, and I think it turned out really nice.

A few days ago my oldest daughter noticed a tiny grasshopper (about half a centimeter long, at most) crawling on a window inside our house. She thought I might like to take a picture of it, so she came and told me about it. Here’s the best of my attempts:

After years of online activity, I have a reasonable sample of data that says I go quiet every winter (from about December to February). Fortunately, the sun is coming back, and I am feeling increasingly communicative.
I recently stumbled across a program called MyPaint for my Nokia Internet Tablet (a handheld device similar to a PDA). [...]

We had a tree removed yesterday, by the skilled and and friendly Dave “E” Tree. Here’s a long-exposure picture of my kids climbing on the wood. (We’re keeping the wood–my wife wants a fire pit where the tree used to be.)

We had the stump removed today. Unfortunately, during stump removal the Utopia fiber line to [...]

Today on the way to work, we stopped at the fedex office so Shaun (my ride) could drop off a package. While he went in and took care of that, I got out of the car and took some pictures of Timpanogos (including this one).

I went back to the car, and while I was putting [...]

My youngest child just turned 6. She had a Princess-themed birthday party. I took this picture just before the party: