Sunday, January 23, 2011

Torrential Uploading: Part One

Okay, so I'm behind again-- as has been brought to my attention repeatedly. Strains of anxiety coat the voices of grandmothers desperate for a Josephine fix. Darla has accused me of either losing Josephine or selfishly hogging her. Sadly, nowhere on my list of new year's resolutions is more timely blogging (I want to get done with these house projects, dagnabbit!), but I do apologize for the tardiness. I have three posts from December I'm trying to get up today, and a couple from January. I love you for your patience. Here is the first.

Christmas in Teague:
Josephine got her own tent for our camping trips since there's no way all three of us could fit actually sleep if we were all in the one we currently have. We're looking forward to our first family camping trip this spring or summer!

JoAnn might kill me for posting the picture below, but Josephine's focus on the precise lip gloss application method as demonstrated by her grandmother just slays me. :-) And at least I'm leaving off the photos of JoAnn in the purple sunglasses that Josephine demanded she wear!


A bunny chair, which, being supremely soft to the touch, immediately caused Josephine to put her fingers in her mouth. It really doesn't matter what it is that's soft-- she goes into automatic self-soothing mode. Which is a little gross when you're outside and she brings you a soft bird feather.
Her little push-bike.
The annual reading by Sean's dad of the Grinch.

Josephine and Badges
Mama Jo's little orange tree grew one orange this year, which Josephine had the honor of picking, and we all shared; it was very sweet and tasty!

playing in the backyard...
Sean, Gam, and Ricky out in the gazebo...
Sean and I also took an afternoon to go out to Lost Prairie, where I took pictures of some of the landmarks that I think I take pictures of every time I'm down there. Sorry for the redundancy.




Sean's the white dot in the middle of the photograph:


We also stopped by the cemetery, where I was sad to find that the lichen I'd been attempting to cultivate on my headstone hadn't made it. Death in a cemetery isn't unheard of. May it rest in peace and all, but I'm still disappointed.
The moon's the dot in the middle of this photograph-- but note that it's RED!! I actually woke up for the lunar eclipse on Dec 21. You're welcome for the fascinating photograph. I believe NASA has some better ones, but not by much.
Okay, torrential uploading of photographs and being a month behind on blogging doesn't exactly equate to posts that make sense. So I'm not holding myself to that standard. I'll just stop there and move on to the next one, which will contain more photos of Josephine and less of broken down moving vans and lunar eclipses. Maybe.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

"Mother, this is NOT how Olan Mills does it."

"True, dear child, true. But that's only because they don't have a hedgehog handy."


Despite her initial consternation, Wilbur single-pawedly saved a photo shoot that was seemingly doomed from the start. Brought him out, and suddenly she was still and focused and even amused (all adjectives used loosely).
Not that there wasn't still a fair amount of attitude from both...


But it eventually became fun, games, and hootenanny.










I like the next one. So solemn.
... All of these were outtakes. Watch your mailbox or inbox for our newsletter with the winning picture!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Yesterday.

Thought it was smart to purge my camera before embarking on holiday travels.

Playing outside:



Family pub outing (Pour House):



Christmas light appreciation stroll:



Bedtime routine...




NOT a part of the routine:


Sean's bedtime routine:
:-)