Cornhole Tossing

Today, our Rotary club sponsored the Cornhole Tossing Tournament at the Southern Fried Festival, which is our downtown fall festival. It looked like a lot of fun, just an unfortunate name for the contest.

The Strip

An evening shot of the strip in Las Vegas. Lights, lights, and more lights. It's amazing to think of the electricity being used here. Impressive display of techno-cheeziness.

Hotel in Vegas

This is the hotel in Vegas - Mandalay Bay. It had nice furnishings, but annoyingly charged for every little thing extra. In a place like Vegas, where money is pouring out of tourists pockets at a staggering rate, you'd think things like internet service or in room refrigerators wouldn't be extra. But they certainly are.

Flying to Las Vegas

We headed out to Las Vegas today for my OnBase conference. It was a long 4 hour flight. I hate long flights. I truly don't think I could do an overseas flight. Anyway, we're off and running!

The Backyard Garden

As the summer is winding down, I don't think I've captured any shots of the patio. It changed quite a bit from last year, so here's this years image for posterity. I have to say, I'm really tired of watering these pots every morning!

Flutterbutters

Tons of these orange butterflies in the garden today. It had been rainy and cloudy for several days leading up to today. I think they were so glad to have some sun and warmth, that they came out in droves for snacks on the flowers. It won't be long before Fall sets in and cooler weather comes. I can't wait - I'm tired of the heat and having to water my plants.

Misty Saturday in the Garden

We had a foggy start to the day today. Several spider webs were all glittering with dew drops. It made for interesting photos.

Wii Friday

Sommar & Ross and Noelle & Joe came over tonight for dindin and some Wii time. Joe & Noelle brought Mario Kart with them for a little racing action. We have DDR with 2 dance pads, so we had some dance-offs. In the pic, you see Sommar and Noelle having big fun with Dance Dance Revolution. And who can forget the magic beans that Ross brought and how delicious all that fruit tasted!

Jurassic Park

It was rainy and cloudy today. This view from the back yard kinda looks like an overgrown, Jurassic Park rainforest. Oh well, at least I can try to make our overgrown hedge line behind the house seem more intersting and mysterious.

Downtown at Dusk

I had a photo shoot project of getting some downtown shots at night for CPWS. With the newly revamped downtown area now having all wires underground and new street and traffic lights, it's a nice looking area. I was assigned to get some night shots showing off the new lights and lack of overhead wires. I decided some dusk shots would be more attractive as the sky would be a lustrous deep blue as opposed to plain black. I'm quite pleased with how they turned out, if I do say so myself!