every new love is just a shadow.

so a few things:

1) spent the weekend in st. louis with a good friend to see some favorite bands at loufest.
2) it was hot.
3) i couldn't bring my camera to the shows, so my lousy cellphone camera was all i had to work with.
4) this sight needed to be documented. honestly i think the photo doesn't show the scope, nor does it show the contrast of the dress vs. the sweaty thong. (and you don't get to see the lower, round sweat marks.)

i feel like there may be a lesson in here somewhere.

you showed up with a black eye.

sometimes you bite the bar...
caught the edge of some big storms recently, and i went out to go for some pretty pictures. when the cell move past and the moon come out, i thought i might get something good.
wrong.
oh well.

miles from nowhere.

these clouds built quickly and left quickly. good for cars, but bad for photos.
still, i'll take a western nebraska sky over an omaha sky most days of the week.

i can see the pines are dancing.

we've had a pretty epic heatwave (well, more of a humidity wave) here in the great plains. it's strange to have drought/dry conditions and a historic flood at the same time.

with the exception of the constant search for shade and air-conditioning, it has sucked most of the energy and ambition out of me.

the forecasters now say the worst is past, and the humidity should subside next week. hopefully, i'll stick around in the blogosphere (and get outside for some sticks before winter gets here).

this structure fell about our feet.

if use a long enough lens to isolate a small part of the building, and the light is just right, the arena in omaha kinda looks a little like the guggenheim in bilbao, don't you think?

(it may help to spend about 12 hours in the summer heat before making a snap decision.)

now i just act like i don't remember.

over the potomac...

i confess that i killed the cat.

the cat was STRIPED and fat.
what's strange is that i don't really care for cats, but i like photographing them. i think it's because they are usually aloof and also sit in the sun.

ol' hickory said we could take them by surprise...

there was a whole lot of red, white and blue at the us mens soccer game in kansas city a couple weeks ago. even a "georgina" washington sighting.

she left to marry some top cat, ain't it the cold truth.

somebody needs to clean their windows!

let's get together before we get much older.

at other papers i worked for, our staffs would cover dozens of graduations. it was challenging (that's a positive spin on the experience).
sometimes, you could get a really nice image, but not often enough to keep from groaning when you see your name on the assignment list. my cousin daniel graduated high school a few weeks ago, and i realized i had not been to a graduation in a long time.

it was more fun than working them... but some of that is because of daniel and the trannies.*

*at least i think they were. i was raised south dakota, where the men are men, the women are women, and the sheep run scared.

i know they buried her body with others.

first real day off in a while. i don't know if it has been in the news much, but we are underwater here in the great plains/midwest. omaha feels like it is an island on the missouri lake (river).

oh, and the college world series is going on. had a nice little thirteen inning gem last night to close out a doubleheader. could be worse, though. could be a deer.

i knew that you had a flame in your heart.

went out to the rfd monument last week. it was pretty cool and quite a lot different than the other presidential monoliths in dc.
also, we saw who we think is my cousin daniel's lost twin. this kid was standing there before anyone was looking and then stood there for quite a while.

it's not the people doing something real.

i actually shot some photos last week.
so, yeah... look out!

i could blow through the ceiling.

a grab shot on my way to shooting something else... every once in a while, blowing out highlights works.

i'll always remember you like a child, girl.

i have no idea what was going on here. i think i prefer it that way.

two good shoes won't save your soul.

i think nearly everything in the arena is more interesting to me than a basketball game.

the glitter's all wet. you're all chrome.

since i apparently don't shoot much interesting stuff these days, here's a shot from last fall that a misplaced.

mistakes on the part of nature.

i guess there is more than one way to get on a referee's good side... nothing like a little sweet talk on the sideline.

sunbeams are never made like me.

even though i don't consider myself a morning person, some of my favorite cups of coffee are at bronson and andrea's house. this window may look familiar to some of you, but there is a new addition to the family. the two dogs are outside now.

[obvious wilco lyrics]