Mom's new puppy: Isabella (and Charlie and Grace)

Hiking at Sewickley with Gillan and Faith

Camping, Allegheny National Forest

Leaves were starting to change, but not quite there yet:


Grace, checking out the view and the chipmunks:



Hiking through the woods, before Tucker and Grace ran off:


At night, looking out across the reservoir:



Moonbathing, the only kind of bathing I did for 4 days:


Tucker found a porcupine. He really found it:


Chipmunks, the only animals that I found:



Tucker and Grace, after coming back from 24 hours of "dispersed camping":

Faith at the Horse Show

Snowmageddon, Canine Edition

Finally getting around to posting some pictures of the dogs having fun during Snowmageddon.

Some pictures from around the farm:






Took the dogs for a hike around the community park, post-holing the whole 1.5 miles. It was, ummm, strenuous.






Hey, "art".

Flyin' with Ryan

Ryan went flying last week and was kind enough to ask me if I wanted to come. We flew over Mike's house (note the pool patio project):



And then flew up to the Allegheny National Forest:



Which apparently has a small cemetery in it:


I took a lot of other pictures, including ones of a pretty cool sunset, none of which came out. I think that the combination of the plane window and the hazy conditions totally confused the auto-focus on my camera.

Faith's Recital

Faith had her yearly recital a couple of weeks ago. These pictures are actually from the rehearsal; obviously, you can't take pictures during the actual recital.

First, ballet:



Faith had a solo:


And then tap:



Some other dances that we were there for:





I think that I'm going to rent a faster lens next year. I had to up the ISO to 800 and the shutter speed down to 1/100 for most of these. I ended up with a lot of pictures that were way too blurry.