7canzers

Yes, all day.  Around the block.  Around the house. Around the green space.  Did I say this already at some point on my blog?!  They are the BEST at playing 🙂

It makes my heart happy to see these kids learning life skills, and be competent at it.

Yay!  More hiking.  I find that it is not that often that you can find a quality loop trail for a day hike.  Especially not right out your back door!!  We hiked up Fairy Springs, doing a fair amount of route finding, and then back down the prominent ridge we can see from our house.  It was supposed to be a 9-12 hour hike, 16km for experienced hikers only.  Our group polished it off in 8 hrs 45. Another great day out, with an awesome bunch of women.

I thought my fireworks pictures were going to be stella.  We got ourselves a little posey, I set my camera up while it was still somewhat light and I could see what I was doing, and we sat and waited for the show to start.  Then out of nowhere we got blasted with water – someone forgot to shut off the timer for the sprinkler!!  I was scared that my camera was going to be ruined.  Thankfully Neika got the brunt of the blast and my camera was OK, but I was kind of rattled!!  And because we had to move my pre-focusing was all messed up and I couldn’t see in the dark to fix it.  Oh well.  It is kind of blurry but I like it anyway with the vague outlines of my crew standing watching.

Temps are pushing 30, but the water is freeeeeezing here!!

The kids have been jumping out of the tree onto the tramp for the last week.  The challenge or game changes daily.  Malakai decided that he wanted to parachute out it, so he created his own rig with grocery bags.  Ashton was in charge of making sure the chute worked properly.  These games change as quickly as the shadows and a big motivation of my photography is to capture the memories, that our brains will forget in years to come, and try to do it in a beautiful way that satisfies my creative desire.