I suppose if your life consisted of eating, trying not to be eaten, and you know that other thing, this is the look you’d have on your face if you saw some giant monster with single eye as large as your body staring at you from a few feet away. BTW, do frogs have teeth?

These didn’t turn out as I had hoped. For one thing the launching point appears to not have been from the 3rd Avenue bridge, putting all the fireworks in front of a brightly light building, and the lack of any breeze caused the smoke to hang around forever. I also used in-camera noise reduction, which essentially disables the camera for the same amount of time after each shot as the shot was long in the first place. Next time I’m going to pluck myself down on the Stone Arch bridge early evening and sweat in the sun with the rest of them, and have some fun.

The latest addition to our family, Bear, after enjoying a doggy ice cream treat on a hot day. He was found in a barn in Iowa, apparently having been abused. Through a chain of transfers he’s ended up with us. Being a dog (with corresponding dog brain) he’ll never realize just how lucky he is. We’ve been through a few dogs, always with the same outcome, the day you have to put them down. He’ll have a happy life up to that moment. But we won’t think about that ending for a decade or so. Hopefully he’ll soon stop trying to ‘escape’.