The other day, we had a chance to visit Showa Memorial Park, a local scenic park that’s the size of a small amusement park. It was a beautiful, sunny spring day in the low 70s. A light breeze kept the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Photography
Las Vegas Tea Festival
My friend, Hannah, and I spent most of the day wandering around the first ever Las Vegas Tea Fest, a “celebration of tea” organized by Joy’s Teaspoon at the Arts Factory. I can think of few things more fun than … Continue reading
Springs Preserve – Feb. 2012
Today I visited the Las Vegas Springs Preserve for the first time. I was impressed! I’d heard mixed reviews, so I wasn’t expecting much, but I don’t know what the haters were hating about. I took a container gardening workshop, … Continue reading
Christmas Cacti in Las Vegas
The hubs and I decided to go on a last minute Christmas adventure tonight, so we hit up the Ethel M Chocolates Annual Holiday Cactus Garden here in Las Vegas. It’s free, it’s fun, and of course it’s utterly freezing … Continue reading
Lunar Eclipse
Or: How I Froze My Toes Off Staring at the Sky I woke up from a dream randomly at 4am one morning, so I did what every insomniac does: Checked Facebook. There, I discovered I had awakened just in time … Continue reading
Proud as a Peacock
The Las Vegas Zoo has more peacocks per square yard than anywhere I’ve ever been, which gave me ample chance to photograph them while I was there.
Baby Wallaby at the Las Vegas Zoo
Today I got my camera out and went to the Las Vegas Zoo. Here’s a tip for the pros: Going early on Monday morning is the best thing ever. I had the whole place to myself for at least an … Continue reading
Oh the Places We’ll Go
I was just thinking about how neat it is that I’ve gotten to experience the birth of the Internet as we know it. I’ve been around almost since its beginning; certainly since the beginning of its mainstream adoption. The image … Continue reading
Missing the Forest
Today, I really miss living somewhere green. I grew up around trees and rain and coastline, and being away from them, I feel like I’m missing a part of myself. The past few days especially, I feel like it’s really … Continue reading
Super Moon
Today was the biggest full moon in a 20(ish) year cycle, thanks to its orbital position relative to its phase. NASA explains: “Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon’s orbit. It is an ellipse … Continue reading
Dexter Loves Moving
And he’d better, since he’s done it five times in as many years! As a military family, we started out in a leaky old house on base, moved to a slightly less leaky house on the same base a year … Continue reading
It’s a Mugging! :O
Boris the dragon was out for a late night walk when Kirby popped out of nowhere to mug him! Luckily, all Boris had on him were some skunk cabbages, so Kirby let him go unscathed. Today’s challenge was “mug”, and … Continue reading