My Father's very first digital camera

circa 2000

I was his willing...er...available subject

The cool thing is, you didn't have to develop the pictures...

You could just plug the camera into your computer and actually have them on there! No scanning necessary!

And just look at the quality! It's crazy I tell ya!

I think he was only able to take 5 or 6 pictures before needing to download them. :-)

Green Shadows

Eeeww! We're kissing! :-)

"White Trash" party

Between my junior and senior year of college, I was one of ten interns at my college theater. Between May and August, we put on 4 awesome, shows, which included: Little Shop of Horrors, Spinning Into Butter, Deathtrap and Always, Patsy Cline.

It definitely was an interesting experience, one which included 18 hour days and not leaving work until the sun was coming up. Those were the nights that one show ended (Sunday) and we had to dismantle the set and put up the new one before the next day, so the cast could start rehearsing the next morning. The new show would open on Tuesday night and run for two weeks. So between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon, everything, including the set, lighting, sound, music, setting, etc, would have to be in place and completely functioning. That's not to say that nothing went wrong, because believe me, they did. There was one show of Deathtrap, in which two bats had decided that the theater roof was a good place to beat the heat. It actually suited the mood of the play, as it was "a dark and stormy night" :-) We eventually shooed them out of the receiving dock.

Now, even though it may sound like all we did was work, put on shows and sleep, we made good use of our time off as well. Many parties were had, bars attended, and it's where I first encountered a Corona (I'm a REAL lightweight). :-) Often, these parties would have themes. One of those mentioned parties was White Trash" night. Since we had access to a warehouse of props and costumes, the townhouse in which the party was held was decorated accordingly. It had a car bumper on a wall, flamingos on the grass, a beer bottle chandelier and an old car chair adorned with a vibrating machine.

Let me tell you, it was nice! :-)

(I LOVED those glasses, by the way)

Giant Tree

Inspired by Villapardo's comment last night, I decided to post the pictures of my snow piled tree, back when there was no snow. I planted this tree when I was 11. They gave it to us at school as part of our Earth Day celebration. It was probably the size of a pencil when I planted it. I'm sure I have a picture of it somewhere a couple of years after it was planted, but I love how HUGE it has gotten!

Old Picture Friday

Since my birthday is January 7th, and my oldest brother's is January 18th, I thought it would be cute to show a picture from Danny's 15th birthday....23 years ago!

From left: me, Danny, Janelle, Timmy

I had just turned five! I especially love my purple pants and maroon sweater! :-) My sister was 12 and not really wanting to get her picture taken, and my other brother was 8. January 1985.

This is the only known recent picture of the four of us (plus Danny's son, Michael) November 2005.

From left: Janelle, Timmy, me, (Michael) and Danny.

Old picture Friday

I just thought of a new theme I'm going to be doing on Fridays: Old Picture Day! My first Christmas, 1980 (I loved that horsie!)
My Grandfather, having his "Board" meeting (he was a photographer and worked for himself...this was created back in the '40's)
My Dad and his brother, Armand (my dad's the one standing up)
My parents wedding