Jeff & Konnor's Blog

The camera caused the lens flair, but the halo was really there. Experimenting with taking pictures of the sun in the event of an eclipse.

A few backyard photos from the last month or so that we hadn't gotten around to posting.

A nice day today, and a nice view from the backyard. If only they would bury all these power lines, convenience for squirrels notwithstanding.

This may look like a Photoshop effect, but it's actually one of our fish under the ice. The ice comes and goes (for example, this picture is from this morning and the ice is gone this afternoon), but the fish basically don't move for three months. We imagine the cold water isn't very pleasant, but they've all made it though every winter so far.

Konnor was on a location scout yesterday with some fat cats.

We often have mourning doves in the backyard, but we rarely see collared doves. This one was amendable to having its picture taken yesterday. We've had two hanging out for about a week now.

A fun surprise was awaiting Jeff outside this morning. Thanks Shelly!

Have you noticed anything about all the trees that fell down during our 100 mph wind storm? They were all pine trees (and their conifer cousins). Pines have very shallow root systems. If you have any next to your house, you should seriously consider preemptively cutting them down. Here's a tree that wanted to say hello to Jeff's jeep during the 1999 tornado.

Sorry for the month of no blogging. Here's a photo of Buddy watching a bird.

Fifteen photos total at our Smugmug site here, or on Google+ here.

We were thinking of using Google+ as our new permanent home for photo albums, but we just think that Smugmug looks better. Thoughts? Adding more albums is on our to-do list in any case.