The Miller's Place

I have always enjoyed photography thanks to my Dad.  Photography was very much his hobby and love as I grew up.  I didn’t think much of it at the time except to try and impress him just like my short lived baseball career, but with two children of my own as well as the simple and plain fact of, there is so much beauty in the world, I have recently become more and more interested.  Trying to capture those precious moments is key because our time is very limited.  And for that very moment in time if that shot is not captured it is gone forever.  Sure you can remember it, but you won’t remember it forever or remember all the details you can capture.  Plus with my memory, I need proof 🙂

As my space on my web server continued to dwindle with all the pictures I was taking with Matthew and the upcoming arrival of Morgan, I knew I had to make a change.  I have always been reluctant to put my pics up on a pro server, because quite frankly I just don’t have the goods.  I get lucky at times with my point and shoot, but they still aren’t great.  That being said, Angie again was the muse for using Flickr.  I searched and wanted to use a popular site so that I could take advantage of all the add ons that comes along with it.  That being said, I uploaded my pics from Gallery to Flickr with ease and didn’t pay much attention to it otherwise, but recently I have been obsessed with it.  It is utterly amazing some of the shots that are there.  Any free time I seem to have is spent looking through the interesting photos for the day or month.  And to be honest not only am I enjoying them, it is really reaffirming my belief that all is not lost.  There is so much beauty in this world, we don’t need to concentrate on the horrible things.  I will be the first to tell you, I don’t watch the news.  What’s the point.  Everything you see on there is filled with violence and despair.  It does nothing but dumb you down and draw out the pessimist in anyone.  I mostly will watch SportsCenter, but being a Philly fan, even that can be depressing 😉

All this being said, it is wonderful to see so many talented photographers as well as such beauty alive and well in the world.  Here are a few of my favorites I have found.

Hope you enjoy as much as I have!

The first of a series of a couple posts to try and catch up 🙂

Background: My office is located in a complex that has two buildings and connecting the two buildings is a glass “tunnel” like hallway.  The cafeteria is in building two and we are in building one.  So on days where I eat at the office I walk to building two and either grab lunch or eat over there.

So the other day I was bringing lunch back to the office because our lunch room is much quieter than the main lunch room in building two and I saw this flash outside.  Turns out it was a chipmunk.  I barely saw enough of him before he dashed into a bush but it definitely was a chipmunk.  Kind of funny, you never see many chipmunks.

So anyway, that night at dinner I remembered and told Michelle and Matthew “Guess what I saw today?”  I proceeded to tell them the story and Matthew gets this big smile on his face and says “Which one was it?”  “Which one what?” I said.  And he repeated himself and said “Alvin, Simon, or Theodore?”  Michelle and I couldn’t stop laughing.  I tried to let him know it wasn’t a cartoon chipmunk it was a real one, but it didn’t work to well 🙂  For the next 5 minutes it was “Daddy, come on which one was it?”  Classic Matthew.

Just a quick note …..

     I weighed Morgan this morning and she is over 10 lbs.!  Hard to believe Matthew was 8 lbs. at 2mos., but theoretically he was about 2wks old when you factor in the preemie time.

Hope to get out this weekend and get some good pics (maybe going to a friend’s mom’s house with a pool and hot tub 🙂

Everyone have a great and safe July 4th and stay cool!

Michelle

Good grief man, June is over.  I really want to get into this long spiel about where the time has gone and why it seems I can never get on top of things, but I have laundry in the dryer and I smell dinner upstairs, so here is the latest without the diatribe.

Morgan is doing well.  Cholicy but well.  Nights are tough most times with cholic.  Doc told Michelle to stop eating spicy and fried foods to try and help it out, ha, does she know who she is talking to? 🙂  Other than that she is doing great.  Our last doctors appointment she was 9 pounds even and 21.5 inches long.

Honestly, there is a ton more I want to say here, but I am just too tired to get into it.  I apologize all.  I actually want to take a personal day from work just to work on my emails and other stuff online but of course there just isn’t the time 🙂  Hopefully next weekend I can try and catch up some.  So Angie, Rhonda, Stevie, Robert, Donnis, Matt, Karen; I’ll get back to soon, I promise 🙂  Not to mention the lone friend I have in Baltimore probbaly hates me by now since it has been months since I have seen him.  Keep me in your prayers guys, talk to ya soon.  Oh and a few pics for your viewing pleasure…

Scott

Well, I wanted to take some time over my two week vacation to update the site and that never happened as you can see 😉  So today I am taking a personal day since the Delaware DMV for whatever reason isn’t open on Saturday so i had to pick up my tags, anyway I decided to do a quick change on the site.  Temporary just for now as it goes with our current theme 🙂  Will leave this theme active for awhile and come back with a total revamp later in the summer maybe.  Enjoy.

Scott