Weird. It’s been weird this week. It feels like a pocket of calm before everything changes – again. Gina’s been out of town this week leaving Abby and me to forge ahead as a duo. Tuesday was extra dull and I asked Abby what she wanted to do and added that watching Calliou was not an option. She said, “Go to the Big Dam Bridge.” So that’s what we did.
I took my 70-300mm telephoto lens with us because I thought maybe there’d be some gulls flying around, but there weren’t. We walked up the bridge and watched a storm over Pinnacle Mountain. Then we walked down the bridge and out on an unpaved trail that branches off the North Little Rock River Trail. Abby was looking for fire ants. She’s taken a liking to stirring up their mounds and watching the ants go nuts and then running away shrieking. We got our shoes muddy and Abby saw some bugs, but no fire ants.
This looks like smog or something, but it was raining pretty hard just on the other side of the I-430 bridge. The rain never got to us, though.
I like the really long lens because it does great things with perspective and depth of field. Behind Abby in this shot there’s a bridge and big river and a dam but it all goes to some kind of gray amorphousness with the lens at 300mm.
Abby found some sand to play in and then cried when she realized we didn’t have her plastic beach shovel with us. Don’t be fooled by her facial expressions. She was having a good time.
Then I taught her how to levitate:
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Wow! Levitation! What’s next? Sawing a woman in half?
her shovel is at my house. although at this point, it may be lost in the melee that is the current state of our home during the painting process.
maybe you two should take up geocaching.
i highly reccomend geocaching, although her attention span may not allow it. ch ch changes
you need to figure out the daddy bloging thing. I think you could make bank.
Love the levitation. Looks like it takes a lot of concentration. Also the shadow is a nice touch; that should convince any skeptics.