Azusa Once More

We made another trip to Azusa -- this time both Bev and I came with Caroline driving from our house to the school. It's about an hour and a half away. We wanted to make sure Caroline could find the school, and also give Bev an opportunity to look around.

In the end, this was the only School Caroline actually applied to, and was accepted to, so here's where she's starting in the fall. Now all we have to do is figure out how to pay for it all.

Mourning Dove on Pot

Some friends of ours have this frame with two flower pots as a decoration on the wall next to their sidewalk. This mouring dove decided the lower pot was a great place to set up house. She let me get pretty close to shoot a couple shots, but when my wife raised her hand to point at a near-by flower, she flushed and flew away. Looking inside the pot we saw a single egg.

I guess she came back -- that's what our friends said -- but when we visited a week later, the pot was empty. Apparently it was just a little too low and a little too tempting for a neighborhood cat. I don't know if the cat got the momma mouring dove, but the egg ended up on the ground on the other side of the sidewalk. If she did live, maybe next year she'll take the time to build a proper home out of harms reach instead of taking the lazy approach and moving into a ready-made but risky residence.

Opening Day

It has been a long off-season, but all the waiting is over -- it's baseball season once again. The Padres home opener was actually their first game of the year this year. It seems most years the home opener is after they've already played a series or two someplace else -- but not this year. This year, the opening day of baseball was right in our town, and we had tickets. The Padres managed to win this game, which made opening day all the sweeter.

This photo was taken before the game started. To give it that "timeless" feel, I shot it in sepia -- no I didn't convert the color photo later, I shot it with my camera in sepia mode. Even though this is opening day 2006, this image makes me feel as if I'm at a game 100 years ago. I imagine the anticipation, the very essence of the experience for those attending so long ago was much like mine today.

It's baseball season again. Can life get any better?