3D photography.

So, I've been trying this new thing with photography.  It's basically where you take 2 pictures of an image that are slightly different and put them next to each other. Then you cross your eyes, focus on the middle image and see the picture in 3D without glasses. It's pretty awesome.

Here is what you do.

-Look in between the 2 images and cross your eyes until you see a blurry third image appear.
-Keep looking at that image until it focuses. It will take some time because your brain is trying to learn it. It will work though.
-You should be able keep your eyes crossed in focus while you scroll through all the pictures. I actually watched an entire 3D movie trailer like this.
-It will help to open each image to make it bigger.

I know it seems silly... just try it!

little birdie.

I've been trying to catch this hummingbird on my camera for awhile now. He is ALWAYS around, but I never have my camera out when he is. And when I get it, he goes away. It's like he knows. Well little birdie, i GOTCHA! 

team groundhog.

Please don't be concerned. This is no big deal around this house.  Lately, there has been a groundhog pest lingering around the house, knocking things over and eating/gnawing. So naturally, we invited Patrick over to use his Man vs. Wild knowledge to kill the little beast. 

We soon realized that shooting him probably wouldn't work since he'd have to be out there all day. So he moved on to bigger and better things. A homemade snare. Now, to be clear, I was not a fan of this. In fact, I am completely against it. I was all for shooting him. Fast and quick, to just put him out of his misery.  The thought of catching him in a trap and killing him is disturbing to me. So, I am now Team Groundhog. You all are barbaric.  ;)

The optimist.

The pessimist.

Come on Groundhog, you can escape!!!!

The Big Dog. And Complaints.

This weekend I drove down to Chesapeake to meet up with Eric go to the Toby Keith (the Big Dog) concert in VA Beach. It was SOOOOO much fun. It was mine and Eric's first concert ever, so neither of us really knew what to expect.  He played every song that we wanted to hear and some that we had never heard before.  I told Eric that this set the bar for future concerts and none will live up to that one.  Although the concert on Saturday was so much fun, the other parts of the weekend were not so great.  For starters, I found my GPS (broken) in my glove box after work before I left for Chesapeake.  For those of you who do not know my GPS history, this is my 3rd GPS in 2 years.  Broken. Cracked. Unfixable. My first 2 got stolen. So, as you can imagine, I was pretty heated. The drive to Eric's house is my least favorite drive ever, since I have to take the beltway around DC and Richmond and then down past Williamsburg and Norfolk.  So starting the drive without a GPS kind of freaked me out.  I figured I would be fine since I have made the trip by myself before. Nope.  I think I missed every exit.  It took me about 5 and a half hours to get there.  I got there around 9:00 or 9:30 and Eric was nice enough to meet me at Olive Garden (fav.) for a late dinner since I was STARVING.  So that was Friday.  Saturday was the concert. Other than the fact that they didn't let me bring ANY of my lenses in but one small one, it went pretty well. Oh, and there was a severe thunderstorm RIGHT when Eric Church left the stage and Toby Keith was about to come on, so we were all supposed to go to our cars and wait it out. And Sunday I left just to sit in traffic the entire way back with maniac drivers.  Next weekend I have to go back for Sienna's 2nd birthday party, but luckily Eric is meeting me here on Thursday to get his new place set up and so we can drive down to Chesapeake together and come back together.

Here are some of the pictures I got from the concert. Again, they only let me bring one lens in that didn't zoom very far (didn't want me to sell professional pictures) so I didn't get THAT great of pictures. But, they will do :)

Eric Church

When it started raining, we went to the bar.

His opening on the big screen.

Fireworks.

Whiskey girl.

Bringing a wounded Marine out on stage to sing American Soldier and Courtesy of the Red White and Blue with him.