Katie takes center stage 

Mommy and the little ballerina 

Me and my little ballerina 

Me and my son, self portrait 

Me and the family 

Katie's First Ballet Recital 

Baby's first haircut (after the fact).

Michele took Elliot to the local Barber Shop in Sandy Hook called Fun Cuts for his first haircut. No pictures were taken during the ordeal, rather there is an eight minute video clip of him screaming. He looks cute, now.

"Wait! You must bow as your Princess has arrived!" 

Watch out Emeril! Your competition is coming! 

The Black Birches III

Didn't get it quite right - funny thing with Picasa2, unless you export the file, some of the settings/changes only stay within the picture browser. So, here it finally is, cropped the way I originally wanted it. There was a version 2 but it wasn't reflecting the cropping so I deleted it from the blog.

Elliot is soooo big!

Here is one from my Canon 300D. Did a little touch up work in Picasa2.
Shot details: 40mm, f/4.0, 1/60, ISO 400.

Morning after a spring snow. 

Holocombe Preserved II

Modified Color version of Holocombe Preserved. I actually did the color saturation first but still felt that the B+W version did this shot better justice.

Holocombe Preserved

Shot this with my Kodak DX3900, originially in color but found the picture did nothing for me but I loved the composition, so I used a color saturation option in Picasa2 (See Holocombe Preserved II - this shot before it was converted to B+W), converted to B+W, played around with the lighting and contrast, and added a green filter. Voila!
BTW, what you are looking at is a Northwestern view from the Holocombe Forest Preserve, in Newtown, CT.

The Black Birches