Great Flickr Gallery Widget

I just found this great widget to create an embedded Flickr gallery. You can create yours at 123flickr.com

Here’s an example of mine

Photos and Video of Baby Birds and Hummingbird in My Backyard

Today I felt like quite the Ornithologist. You see over the last few weeks a bird has decided to make a nest on top of a speaker in my backyard patio. I’ve been keeping an eye on the progress and over the last few days. There is a door in my bedroom that leads to the patio and on these hot nights I leave the side windows open. The last few mornings I have been awaken by the baby birds that summon mama to feed them. Upon inspection of the nest today the babies are finally raising their heads and getting a little adventurous. So I decided to try and be a little stealthy and take some pictures and video of them using my Panasonic FZ7 Ultra Zoom Camera.

I got an extra added surprise when I saw a hummingbird making the rounds to each of my kangaroo paw plants and was able to capture some great shots of it as well. I also have video of it perched on my orange tree. Pretty amazing that all these shots and video occurred today in my backyard.

Baby Birds

Hummingbird

My Trip to Guanajuato Mexico

On a recent trip to Mexico my wife decided she wanted to take me somewhere special to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. She had been to this beautiful town when she was a girl and wanted to share this magical place with me. I can honestly say that I was mesmorized after entering the town and enjoyed every moment I was there.

Guanajuato was founded by the spaniards in the early 16th century and soon became one of the largest silver mining towns in the world. The very first thing I noticed was the architecture and environment. Although I have never been to Europe, the town had a very European feeling to it from an architectural standpoint. They have done a great job of preserving as much of the old world feeling the town has by limiting the changes allowed to the environment. This includes not adding streetlights and allowing traffic to portions of the downtown area as well as limiting fast food and other commercial chains to setup shop (although a Domino’s Pizza has snuck in somehow).

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11 pictures worth a million words

 Alex was in his first baseball tournament this weekend
This was his first at bat in his first game
He tipped the ball and was hit in the face
He started to cry
The coach approached him to soothe and encourage
I had to hold back Esther from wanting to do the same
He hung in there and got a single
This moment is now etched in memory forever

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Kids – Best of 2004

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