PSF - Finding the Perfect Pumpkin

On our trip to Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, MA, the kids got to pick a few pumpkins for Halloween. Who doesn't love a pumpkin patch?


Is this the pumpkin?


It's heavy!


Dova said, "I got boobs!!"


Ahh! Adam found the perfect pumpkin and enjoyed the crisp Technicolor air. (Let's just say that I had a lot of issues with exposure settings while I was lying in the bark mulch, but enjoyed turning up the saturation in post processing.)

The kids picked out the pattern for the Jack-o'-lantern and set me to work.





Hope everyone had a happy Halloween!


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WW - Fall Flowers

What's this coming into view?


A field of flowers!


Rows and rows of the last beautiful fall flowers (these photos were taken on October 10).


Adam was drawn to them.


Dova was barely as tall as them.


I took mostly boring shots of them. But then I let Adam use my camera.


I would never have thought to take this beautiful bud against the sky!


And these new and old flowers together. Good thing we have a photographer in the house (with a little post processing help from mom).

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Silly Monkey Story - My Little Pig Roast

When Dova stuck this apple in her mouth while we were apple picking, it immediately reminded me of the pig roast we attended for my cousin's wedding.



An uncanny resemblance, eh? OK, in real life, she's must cuter and tastier than a roasted pig.



She managed to eat two whole apples while we were there. But with her two top teeth missing, I couldn't understand how she bit into her apples. Here's a clue:



She ate them like a vampire with her vampire teeth!


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PSF - Catching Some Air

If there's one thing that Dova loves, it's jumping on a trampoline.



Whoa, girl, stay in the frame!



I'm a frog!



Spread eagle? No problem!



Is this high enough?



How does my hair look?  Beautiful as always, darling!


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WW - Thank you for calling. How may I direct your call?

Apparently I am losing control of all my digital assets as I happened to find this picture from last May and it wasn't uploaded to Flickr!  Here I am working the phones at my company's reception desk with All. Those. Buttons.  Why are they paying me the big bucks to work the phones?  Because all salaried employees are still taking two mandatory days off a month, including our regular receptionist.  Of course the phones and the front door shouldn't go unmanned and it doesn't make sense to pay a temp to work the phones, which would defeat the purpose of saving money through unpaid days (a temp still comes in for vacation days).

So they recruited several of us to cover an hour each on the receptionist's unpaid days.  I figured that I've worked the phones (with no buttons) at my dorm's desk in college, so I could hack it.  What I didn't figure on was juggling multiple calls, people willing to wait on hold for hours, and having real nightmares that our company was losing money because I was routing the calls to the wrong place. But hey, I'm a team player!



I dug up this photo of me working McCormick desk at MIT in 1987 in my BIG HAIR. Exactly the same right?

Totally not wordless today, I know.  So I'll be linking up at all the Wordful Wednesday sites!





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Adam loves his baby cousin

While Dova was busy playing fairies with her cousin, Adam took to playing with his 11-month old baby cousin in June. I would think that Dova, being a girl and always playing with dolls, would love a chance to play with a real baby. In fact she seemed totally oblivious that there was a baby around.



Case in point. Adam built block structures just so that his cousin could knock them down.





He also showed him the ropes on the spinning toy amongst the discarded fairy wings.



I love that Adam was so great with his cousin. Don't get me wrong, I had my baby fill as well...

Dova makes an excellent fairy

I finally got around to tagging some photographs from June(!!), when I came across these gems. Thanks to her cousin, they make a wonderful fairy pair.








This reading fairy shot is my favorite!

PSF – Climbing out the Window

Angela?  Oh, Angela?

While we were staying in Newport, Rhode Island, for our 10th anniversary celebration, Doug was looking for me and was greeted by this open window.  I quickly scampered around the corner and snapped this picture of him.

 

Where the heck was I?  On the fire escape of the third floor of our Inn.  Here's some more perspective. 

Way up there.  We usually stay in the round room to the right with the turret (called the Tower Room), but this time, I convinced Doug to revisit a room on the third floor.  I just couldn’t resist going out on the fire escape to take some photographs.

The front steps from above.

Sycamore tree out front.

Up close and personal with the turret.

The garden and our car.

It was so much fun climbing around!

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