It's been a bit since I was able to just go out and take some pictures - sadly, I kind of overdid it when I finally got the opportunity. Some friends and I went to the Como Park Conservatory on the morning of April 13th. Three hours later I left having taken nearly 1200 frames. That makes for a LOT of sorting and editing. I'm quite happy to say that I have it down to a much more reasonable number, although still a lot of them. But nothing made it feel like spring like spending some time wiht a bunch of gorgeous flowers and coming out to beautiful sunshine.
To see the shots that remain, click on the album photo and enter the password "conservatory". For the best view, I recommend clicking on Slideshow.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Birth Announcement!!!
with guest photographer: Jonathan D. Thomas
Well... shockingly enough, a GIRL has been born into the Thomas gene pool!! Obviously, I am fond of pointing out that it does happen occasionally *raises hand* but it's hard to avoid the reality that it's a rare event despite birth being a pretty common one. But my brother, Jon, and his wife, Naomi, are now the parents of the first girl born to our family in nearly 36 years.
Elizabeth Jo Thomas
born: March 31, just before 9 pm.
Weight: 7 lbs 1 oz.
Length: 20.5 inches
She had a pretty big crowd waiting to greet her when she came into the world - but she better get used to it because her family is pretty darn big. I was glad to get just a few minutes with her myself.
while Daddy used the video camera to record the majority of the day, once all the hard work and excitement was coming to a close, I gave him my camera and let him follow the little doll to the nursery for her first bath and such things.
And just because it was so funny, I had to post this picture Daddy took while he was still trying to figure out his sister's fancy little camera
She really seems pretty calm about the whole thing after a bit but one of my favorite pictures that Jon got is this one where she's looking straight at him and kind of looks like she's thinking, "Daddy, what is that thing you have on your face?"
Luckily, it's QUITE obvious that she resembles her mother very strongly - including her extraordinarily large eyes. I'm sure that the Thomas genes will show up eventually - sadly, they always do - but for now, she's got her very pretty mommy's looks.
Of course, the nickname debate has begun in earnest already. Daddy has decided to call her LizardBreath. Yeah, he's not very nice. And it's going to be especially difficult considering the orginal "LizardBreath" (our 21 yo cousin) lives in the same house when she's not at school. Personally, I'm trying out LizaJo to see how well it sticks... And I think it is the nurses that Jon said are calling her EllieJo. That is nice too - we'll see what sticks.
Well... shockingly enough, a GIRL has been born into the Thomas gene pool!! Obviously, I am fond of pointing out that it does happen occasionally *raises hand* but it's hard to avoid the reality that it's a rare event despite birth being a pretty common one. But my brother, Jon, and his wife, Naomi, are now the parents of the first girl born to our family in nearly 36 years.
Elizabeth Jo Thomas
born: March 31, just before 9 pm.
Weight: 7 lbs 1 oz.
Length: 20.5 inches
She had a pretty big crowd waiting to greet her when she came into the world - but she better get used to it because her family is pretty darn big. I was glad to get just a few minutes with her myself.
while Daddy used the video camera to record the majority of the day, once all the hard work and excitement was coming to a close, I gave him my camera and let him follow the little doll to the nursery for her first bath and such things.
And just because it was so funny, I had to post this picture Daddy took while he was still trying to figure out his sister's fancy little camera
She really seems pretty calm about the whole thing after a bit but one of my favorite pictures that Jon got is this one where she's looking straight at him and kind of looks like she's thinking, "Daddy, what is that thing you have on your face?"
Luckily, it's QUITE obvious that she resembles her mother very strongly - including her extraordinarily large eyes. I'm sure that the Thomas genes will show up eventually - sadly, they always do - but for now, she's got her very pretty mommy's looks.
Of course, the nickname debate has begun in earnest already. Daddy has decided to call her LizardBreath. Yeah, he's not very nice. And it's going to be especially difficult considering the orginal "LizardBreath" (our 21 yo cousin) lives in the same house when she's not at school. Personally, I'm trying out LizaJo to see how well it sticks... And I think it is the nurses that Jon said are calling her EllieJo. That is nice too - we'll see what sticks.
ETA: it appears that EllieJo is definitely in the lead but a couple late entries have joined the fray, including EJ. We'll have to see how much of a tomboy vs girly girl she ends up being.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Montana Ski Trip
ok... I think this is the last of the old photos for awhile. I will have to get my camera out and take some new ones to show you next.
Anyway, back in 1998, we got a group of friends together in my grandparents' motorhome and roadtripped out to a cabin we rented in the Bozeman area and hit a couple different ski resorts. It was one of the more memorable roadtrips of my life - and not necessarily for the good reasons. But that being said, I still remember the trip fondly.
The saga started on the trip out... somewhere in the middle of the night as we entered the part of the North Dakota that actually ISN'T flat, my brother started having trouble getting the motorhome to go more than 40 mph and we could just barely get up the hills..
that's where we stopped at a gas station in the early morning hours just after we crossed the state line into Montana and discovered that the fuel filter was plugged and even though there was actually a Cummins dealership right off the freeway on our way, we couldn't get a new one. This was a few of the guys taking the filter out, cleaning it out as best we could and putting it back in. We should have taken this as an omen for the trip to come.
This is the Montana countryside through the window of the motorhome as we approached our cabin. You can just see it at the base of the hill. It was truly gorgeous out there.
And I know I posted these before but for reference sake, this is out back of the cabin:
I really loved the scenery there and we even got to do some hiking.
That was some of our in-cabin activities - push up poker and 4-man chess. Interestingly enough, I only went skiing twice while I was there. Part of my problem was that I wasn't too bright about choosing to hit the mountains to go skiing for my first outting after I broke my leg skiing the winter before. My brother, Jim, will tell you how he practically had to babysit me down the hill as my poor brain freaked out. It wasn't so much that I was worried about FALLING as I think I was really worried I wouldn't be able to get back up. I also had not gained anywhere near the muscle mass in my right leg that I had lost so it really wasn't very strong and I didn't have the control I was used to either. It wasn't the greatest skiing experience I've ever had. But at least here is the proof that I actually was out there making a go of it - this is at Big Sky:
as you can tell, it was starting to snow - which made the trip back to the cabin kind of interesting.
and from there, the trip REALLY started to get memorable.
I did not go out skiing the next day but the some of our group did - including my brother who ended up trying to figure out how to drive the motorhome through a snowstorm in mountain roads - with rapidly failing power-steering and brakes. I'm pretty sure that is when his blood pressure started going up. I think he might be a motorhome jinx but don't tell him I said that.
The next day (the day before we were supposed to leave and go home) was spent in the ever-exciting town of Bozeman trying to get a mechanic to fix whatever was wrong with the motorhome. If you know anything about vehicles of that size, they don't really have regular work done by your normal mountain town garage. Turns out the problem was VERY serious and they couldn't fix it.. so we could hang out for a week while they waited to receive parts that we couldn't afford anyway and we were on a VERY tight schedule so.. the week delay was not good either.
In an entertaining coincidence, one of the friends on the trip must also have been recently reminiscing because I received a link to a video that was shot while they were killing time while we were trying to figure out what to do with the motorhome... They decided to make a mentos commercial.
Due to the time and money constraints, we decided that our only hope was to limp the motorhome the 1000 miles home and have it get attention there. The problem was that we had a hole in the hydraulic system - which is a shared system between the brakes and the steering. That meant that whenever we used the brakes, it pumped all the hydraulic fluid out and we lost the ability to steer AND couldn't do anymore braking. Ever tried to drive a 44 ft motorhome with no brakes or power-steering? Yeah, that's a serious challenge. We invested in GALLONS of hydraulic fluid and set out for home - we could go about 45 minutes of very careful driving until we would need to pull over and refill the hydraulic fluid. Amazingly, driving straight through on the freeway for 24 hours with that same schedule, we actually made it home in one piece. I tell you, that was definitely more miracle than skill.
Anyway, it's still a memorable trip...
Anyway, back in 1998, we got a group of friends together in my grandparents' motorhome and roadtripped out to a cabin we rented in the Bozeman area and hit a couple different ski resorts. It was one of the more memorable roadtrips of my life - and not necessarily for the good reasons. But that being said, I still remember the trip fondly.
The saga started on the trip out... somewhere in the middle of the night as we entered the part of the North Dakota that actually ISN'T flat, my brother started having trouble getting the motorhome to go more than 40 mph and we could just barely get up the hills..
that's where we stopped at a gas station in the early morning hours just after we crossed the state line into Montana and discovered that the fuel filter was plugged and even though there was actually a Cummins dealership right off the freeway on our way, we couldn't get a new one. This was a few of the guys taking the filter out, cleaning it out as best we could and putting it back in. We should have taken this as an omen for the trip to come.
This is the Montana countryside through the window of the motorhome as we approached our cabin. You can just see it at the base of the hill. It was truly gorgeous out there.
And I know I posted these before but for reference sake, this is out back of the cabin:
I really loved the scenery there and we even got to do some hiking.
That was some of our in-cabin activities - push up poker and 4-man chess. Interestingly enough, I only went skiing twice while I was there. Part of my problem was that I wasn't too bright about choosing to hit the mountains to go skiing for my first outting after I broke my leg skiing the winter before. My brother, Jim, will tell you how he practically had to babysit me down the hill as my poor brain freaked out. It wasn't so much that I was worried about FALLING as I think I was really worried I wouldn't be able to get back up. I also had not gained anywhere near the muscle mass in my right leg that I had lost so it really wasn't very strong and I didn't have the control I was used to either. It wasn't the greatest skiing experience I've ever had. But at least here is the proof that I actually was out there making a go of it - this is at Big Sky:
as you can tell, it was starting to snow - which made the trip back to the cabin kind of interesting.
and from there, the trip REALLY started to get memorable.
I did not go out skiing the next day but the some of our group did - including my brother who ended up trying to figure out how to drive the motorhome through a snowstorm in mountain roads - with rapidly failing power-steering and brakes. I'm pretty sure that is when his blood pressure started going up. I think he might be a motorhome jinx but don't tell him I said that.
The next day (the day before we were supposed to leave and go home) was spent in the ever-exciting town of Bozeman trying to get a mechanic to fix whatever was wrong with the motorhome. If you know anything about vehicles of that size, they don't really have regular work done by your normal mountain town garage. Turns out the problem was VERY serious and they couldn't fix it.. so we could hang out for a week while they waited to receive parts that we couldn't afford anyway and we were on a VERY tight schedule so.. the week delay was not good either.
In an entertaining coincidence, one of the friends on the trip must also have been recently reminiscing because I received a link to a video that was shot while they were killing time while we were trying to figure out what to do with the motorhome... They decided to make a mentos commercial.
Due to the time and money constraints, we decided that our only hope was to limp the motorhome the 1000 miles home and have it get attention there. The problem was that we had a hole in the hydraulic system - which is a shared system between the brakes and the steering. That meant that whenever we used the brakes, it pumped all the hydraulic fluid out and we lost the ability to steer AND couldn't do anymore braking. Ever tried to drive a 44 ft motorhome with no brakes or power-steering? Yeah, that's a serious challenge. We invested in GALLONS of hydraulic fluid and set out for home - we could go about 45 minutes of very careful driving until we would need to pull over and refill the hydraulic fluid. Amazingly, driving straight through on the freeway for 24 hours with that same schedule, we actually made it home in one piece. I tell you, that was definitely more miracle than skill.
Anyway, it's still a memorable trip...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2008 Lunar Eclipse
Frankly, I'm surprised I could coax the camera to actually focus in the -4 degree temperatures (I'm not going to even bother looking up what the windchill might have been). I'm still learning how to do the low light pics and this was DEFINITELY that but for all the difficulties, it's not a bad picture.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Canal Park Visit
Believe it or not, also in 2000 (it seems it was a very busy year) and again in 2002, I got to spend a bit of time in Canal Park in Duluth Harbor. It's really a great place to hang out and you might agree that the scenery is pretty amazing. On the first occasion, my hotel was RIGHT on the beach so I got to take advantage the ocean views at dawn and dusk. I had to admit that I might have taken too many pictures but .. it was so pretty and makes for a nice progression!!!
but the Point has some great scenery even during the day
and I took this one while on a walk on the beach boardwalk
and since it's a harbor, you wouldn't believe the size of the ore boats that come in. They make for quite a sight.
and since you have that lighthouse for reference, this should give you an idea of the immensity of this ship
now that you have seen the size of the ships coming into harbor, just imagine the lift bridge that is required to allow ships of that size through!!
the group I was with was lucky enough to get an evening ride up with the bridge (something not allowed to standard tourists)
but it also allows a pretty spectacular view of the city
considering that I haven't been up to Canal Park since 2002, I might just have to go for a visit up there again sometime soon.
but the Point has some great scenery even during the day
and I took this one while on a walk on the beach boardwalk
and since it's a harbor, you wouldn't believe the size of the ore boats that come in. They make for quite a sight.
and since you have that lighthouse for reference, this should give you an idea of the immensity of this ship
now that you have seen the size of the ships coming into harbor, just imagine the lift bridge that is required to allow ships of that size through!!
the group I was with was lucky enough to get an evening ride up with the bridge (something not allowed to standard tourists)
but it also allows a pretty spectacular view of the city
considering that I haven't been up to Canal Park since 2002, I might just have to go for a visit up there again sometime soon.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Another Stroll Down Memory Lane - to the Midwest
In 2000, I took a roadtrip vacation with one of my best friends to Colorado. It was a FANTASTIC vacation and we got to see a lot gorgeous countryside. So, I grabbed several of them in the scanning I was doing earlier and here's what I pulled out - lots of that trip isn't here but we'll just call it a representative sample..
Part of the trip we spent in the Colorado Springs area in an extremely adorable little victorian hotel. The reason we were in the area was to go white water rafting down the Arkansas River near Cańon City.
yeah, that's her and I on the left side of the boat. It was a BLAST - I would totally do it again.
Of course, one of the cool things about going rafting in the Cańon City area is that the Royal Gorge spans the Arkansas River right near there:
of course, one of the really neat things about standing on the edge of a cliff taking pictures of a bridge is that if you stop and look down at the river below you, you can get really cool shots like this!
I really really love this picture and one of these days it will be one that I have up on the wall in my livingroom like the others I posted.
Of course, as with every trip I take, there was hiking. Happily, Jeanette and I didn't seem to have any problem with hiking in the altitude at all. But there is a place in Colorado Springs called Seven Falls - you should see it. I don't have a picture of it in it's entirety because the little camera at the time just didn't have that capability. But it's a waterfall that comes down the mountain and is broken up into 7 different sections. The scenic area has a series of staircases that go all the way up to the top. If you want to check it out, go to sevenfalls.com It's really beautiful but it's quite the hike. Here's a pic DOWN the stairs once we got to the top:
of course, that's not really the end of the hike. Turns out, at the top is a trail up to Inspiration Point which overlooks the valley containing Colorado Springs. Basically, you just follow this creek:
and it there are gorgeous little waterfalls the whole way up like this one:
Sadly, the pics I DON'T have are the ones Jeanette and I took on rocks of Inspiration Point when we got to the top. I think she has them though so I should find out and add them to the collection at some point.
One of the other places we visited was called Cave of the Winds. I love caves so this was a pretty cool trip even though it's very touristy. Still, the caverns were HUGE and there were so many gorgeous things in there. But I did figure out that it's hard to get pictures with a little 35mm point&shoot in a dark cave:
A lot of them turned out like this
and for a little reference - this is about 3-4 stories high
and even the walls can look cool
One of the coolest visual images of the trip started with this:
It's a pic of a stormfront on the eastern horizon that I took from the parking lot after we had dinner at Perkins. Little did we know that it would make for a very spectacular electrical storm covering the horizon that we followed the whole night driving home across Kansas. We finally caught up with it just before dawn, drove THROUGH it for about half an hour and just came out on the other side as the sun was coming up. It was cool to see the sunrise in splendor with lightening flashing right next to it. I wish I had THAT on film.
I gotta tell you, we were gone less than a week and I don't know how we managed to squeeze in all the stuff we did - we were in Denver for the first couple days and we also went horseback riding in the Garden of the Gods by Pike's Peak. I have pictures from that too but I haven't gotten around to scanning any of them in yet
Part of the trip we spent in the Colorado Springs area in an extremely adorable little victorian hotel. The reason we were in the area was to go white water rafting down the Arkansas River near Cańon City.
yeah, that's her and I on the left side of the boat. It was a BLAST - I would totally do it again.
Of course, one of the cool things about going rafting in the Cańon City area is that the Royal Gorge spans the Arkansas River right near there:
of course, one of the really neat things about standing on the edge of a cliff taking pictures of a bridge is that if you stop and look down at the river below you, you can get really cool shots like this!
I really really love this picture and one of these days it will be one that I have up on the wall in my livingroom like the others I posted.
Of course, as with every trip I take, there was hiking. Happily, Jeanette and I didn't seem to have any problem with hiking in the altitude at all. But there is a place in Colorado Springs called Seven Falls - you should see it. I don't have a picture of it in it's entirety because the little camera at the time just didn't have that capability. But it's a waterfall that comes down the mountain and is broken up into 7 different sections. The scenic area has a series of staircases that go all the way up to the top. If you want to check it out, go to sevenfalls.com It's really beautiful but it's quite the hike. Here's a pic DOWN the stairs once we got to the top:
of course, that's not really the end of the hike. Turns out, at the top is a trail up to Inspiration Point which overlooks the valley containing Colorado Springs. Basically, you just follow this creek:
and it there are gorgeous little waterfalls the whole way up like this one:
Sadly, the pics I DON'T have are the ones Jeanette and I took on rocks of Inspiration Point when we got to the top. I think she has them though so I should find out and add them to the collection at some point.
One of the other places we visited was called Cave of the Winds. I love caves so this was a pretty cool trip even though it's very touristy. Still, the caverns were HUGE and there were so many gorgeous things in there. But I did figure out that it's hard to get pictures with a little 35mm point&shoot in a dark cave:
A lot of them turned out like this
and for a little reference - this is about 3-4 stories high
and even the walls can look cool
One of the coolest visual images of the trip started with this:
It's a pic of a stormfront on the eastern horizon that I took from the parking lot after we had dinner at Perkins. Little did we know that it would make for a very spectacular electrical storm covering the horizon that we followed the whole night driving home across Kansas. We finally caught up with it just before dawn, drove THROUGH it for about half an hour and just came out on the other side as the sun was coming up. It was cool to see the sunrise in splendor with lightening flashing right next to it. I wish I had THAT on film.
I gotta tell you, we were gone less than a week and I don't know how we managed to squeeze in all the stuff we did - we were in Denver for the first couple days and we also went horseback riding in the Garden of the Gods by Pike's Peak. I have pictures from that too but I haven't gotten around to scanning any of them in yet
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Some New OLD Stuff
So I finally decided to start making use of my scanner to get some of my pictures online from back in the day before a digital camera. Yeah, I have a LOT of old pictures and stuff that I would love to share with people but it will take years to get it all scanned in. But I started with one very long evening scanning in a variety of things and some of my favorites from various outtings (about 50 pictures). I'll try to break them up a little bit into something that makes a little sense... at least to me.
My first group are special to me for a couple reasons but for anyone who has been in my house, they will familiar. Many years ago, I pulled together some of my favorite pictures from over the years and gave them to my brother. Paul was working in the developing world at the time and did his magic to blow them up, crop, edit and mount them for me so that I could frame and hang them in my livingroom.
The first two pictures are from the back yard of a cabin in Montana where a group of us stayed during a ski trip.
Then I have a pic that I took from my grandmother's back yard in Cowell, Arkansas.
Right in the center over my TV is the first landscape picture I ever took. I was 13 years old and on a camping trip with my family in UP Michigan on the shore of Lake Superior playing with my dad's 35 mm for the first time. I didn't have the horizon quite straight and was just discovering what low light does to a shutter but I got a great useable picture anyway. The photog bug had officially bitten. With a bit of cropping and straightening, my bro turned it into a magnificent pic to hang...
the last two were taken from opposite sides of a lake at the 4H Camp I stayed at while working in Atlanta, Georgia for the '96 Summer Olympics.
I will post a few more old things when the muse strikes me.
My first group are special to me for a couple reasons but for anyone who has been in my house, they will familiar. Many years ago, I pulled together some of my favorite pictures from over the years and gave them to my brother. Paul was working in the developing world at the time and did his magic to blow them up, crop, edit and mount them for me so that I could frame and hang them in my livingroom.
The first two pictures are from the back yard of a cabin in Montana where a group of us stayed during a ski trip.
Then I have a pic that I took from my grandmother's back yard in Cowell, Arkansas.
Right in the center over my TV is the first landscape picture I ever took. I was 13 years old and on a camping trip with my family in UP Michigan on the shore of Lake Superior playing with my dad's 35 mm for the first time. I didn't have the horizon quite straight and was just discovering what low light does to a shutter but I got a great useable picture anyway. The photog bug had officially bitten. With a bit of cropping and straightening, my bro turned it into a magnificent pic to hang...
the last two were taken from opposite sides of a lake at the 4H Camp I stayed at while working in Atlanta, Georgia for the '96 Summer Olympics.
I will post a few more old things when the muse strikes me.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
More Goofing Off in the Snow
So a photog buddy of mine says, "lets go to Minnehaha Falls and take pictures of the frozen falls!" You really don't need much more of an invitation for a bunch of like-minded camera geeks to go play so a half-dozen of us headed down to the park on what turned out to be a really warm day (40+ degrees in Minnesota in January? we call that a thaw).
I was somewhat limited by a damaged shoulder so I couldn't do all the clambering around that I otherwise would definitely have done. And I'm still jealous about some of the pics that a friend of mine got because clambering is something he does in his sleep. I'll give you a link to his pictures at the end... I'm jealous but they are still some phenomenal pictures! Anyway, here's some of the stuff I got from the day:
this is the view of the falls from the walkway at the top - park your car and this is what you see.
yeah - lots of people down there on the frozen creek. Mind you, thawing temperatures and the constant sound of falling ice doesn't instill confidence but.. it's all for the pictures!!
of course, getting down there wasn't as easy as you would think - the stairs were actualy closed and we had to climb over the chains to do it. This is Tim going down rappelling style - I told you he does a lot of clambering. *wink*
yeah, lots of us made the trip but you can see there was a lot of open water. The view was totally worth it though.
Tim struck off on an icey climb to go behind the falls while I was relegated to shots from below in the basin.
but at least the falls are still really cool!
yeah, that's Tim in there... too bad he couldn't just slide down.
really - the ice we were walking on was thinning from underneath and there was a lot of open water.
open water makes for cool pics though
so we met up with the rest of the group and headed downstream
the stairs on the other bank were even worse - but some enterprising kids decided that sledding down in their snowsuits was easier! They giggled the whole way down.
Kinsey kept taking pictures of us so I got one of him!
the view back upstream
something fell through the ice here..
but the layers in the broken ice were so beautiful! Almost like an agate.
it was getting dark by the time we made it down to the big bridge but not dark enough for the lights to come on... darn.
heading back upstream on the other bank
oh wait!! the lights came on! HAD to run back to get this picture..
The falls are pretty gorgeous when lit up at night...
even just heading back to the parking lot had some cool view - this tree lit from so many directions just glowed.
well, that's the highlights folks. If you want to see what Tim got on the same trip, I highly recommend checking out his gallery: http://invisi.us/gallery2/v/invisi/2008/Minnehaha/
I was somewhat limited by a damaged shoulder so I couldn't do all the clambering around that I otherwise would definitely have done. And I'm still jealous about some of the pics that a friend of mine got because clambering is something he does in his sleep. I'll give you a link to his pictures at the end... I'm jealous but they are still some phenomenal pictures! Anyway, here's some of the stuff I got from the day:
this is the view of the falls from the walkway at the top - park your car and this is what you see.
yeah - lots of people down there on the frozen creek. Mind you, thawing temperatures and the constant sound of falling ice doesn't instill confidence but.. it's all for the pictures!!
of course, getting down there wasn't as easy as you would think - the stairs were actualy closed and we had to climb over the chains to do it. This is Tim going down rappelling style - I told you he does a lot of clambering. *wink*
yeah, lots of us made the trip but you can see there was a lot of open water. The view was totally worth it though.
Tim struck off on an icey climb to go behind the falls while I was relegated to shots from below in the basin.
but at least the falls are still really cool!
yeah, that's Tim in there... too bad he couldn't just slide down.
really - the ice we were walking on was thinning from underneath and there was a lot of open water.
open water makes for cool pics though
so we met up with the rest of the group and headed downstream
the stairs on the other bank were even worse - but some enterprising kids decided that sledding down in their snowsuits was easier! They giggled the whole way down.
Kinsey kept taking pictures of us so I got one of him!
the view back upstream
something fell through the ice here..
but the layers in the broken ice were so beautiful! Almost like an agate.
it was getting dark by the time we made it down to the big bridge but not dark enough for the lights to come on... darn.
heading back upstream on the other bank
oh wait!! the lights came on! HAD to run back to get this picture..
The falls are pretty gorgeous when lit up at night...
even just heading back to the parking lot had some cool view - this tree lit from so many directions just glowed.
well, that's the highlights folks. If you want to see what Tim got on the same trip, I highly recommend checking out his gallery: http://invisi.us/gallery2/v/invisi/2008/Minnehaha/
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