I will say that the miniature San Francisco in Legoland is pretty freakin’ awesome!
I want that in my garden.
The detail is incredible.
How many Lego sets did that take?
I can only imagine.
But they did make all the major sites… sights?
And my little buddy Olivia had a good time.
And went on her first roller coaster ride.
So it was all worth it.
My newest little cousin. Also, if babies don’t look at you like that when you hold them, you are doing it wrong!!!
Everybody had to take turns holding her. She looks a little miffed that I am interrupting bonding time with my daughter, Mollie.
There is Mollie with another cousin.
And yet another cousin.
Awwww… is there anything better than holding a baby? I think not!
Jessica, my older daughter, got in on the act as well.
Hey, what did we tell you about punching Chewie in the hootchies???
Mollie is as good with kids as me… and I don’t say that lightly.
Because I am the freekin’ baby whisperer.
Did I mention that Legoland has life-sized pirates made of Lego?
Probably not.
They also have the Golden Gate Bridge, but it isn’t life-sized. But how cool would that be?
That right there is my little buddy, Olivia, getting ready for her first roller coaster ride ever.
My older daughter, Jessica, took her on it. I am too big to fit in the Legoland roller coasters.
Action shots!
It is not easy to take pictures of a roller coaster with a cell phone.
I did the best I could.
There she is, telling me and her dad how brave she was.
Olivia is the daughter of some old friends of ours, for those of you not following along. I used to babysit her regularly. I love that kid, and so do both my kids.
And did I mention that I got to hold my new little cousin, Maeve?
Because we all met up at Legoland.
There is Olivia, happy that she is tall enough to ride the roller coaster.
There is Olivia with Joey, her dad. Did I mention that Legoland has a water park… that you have to pay extra to get in to? Also, did I mention that Olivia is really Wonder Woman?
But don’t worry, I have plenty more pictures. HA!
I am not a huge fan of Legoland. I went to see all the cute kids.
But if you are a Star Wars fan, there are some cool things.
And yes, they are all made of Lego.
The thing about Legoland… (hey, thing, fancy meeting you at Legoland)… is that it is specifically aimed at a very specific group, which is young kids. There isn’t much for older kids or adults to do, except run around doing the bidding of the small children.
Since that was our goal, it wasn’t bad.
But it isn’t exactly Disneyland.
That being said, we had a lot of fun.
And they do a lot with little plastic blocks.
You gotta give them that.
And I do have a lot of photos.
So get comfortable.
My weekend was so awesome. Well, technically, my weekend is on Monday and Tuesday, but it was still awesome! I spent some time with my little buddy Olivia and her dad.
And both my daughters are in town, the married one who lives in New York, Jessica, on the left of the Olivia sandwich, and my medical school Mollie, on the right.
On top of that, my cousins are in town. There is little Clark, he of the long eyelashes.
And out newest little cousin, Maeve! Mollie was a baby hog, but she gets that from me, so I can’t complain, and I got to hold the baby too.
Seriously, what a baby hog.
I love that my kids will never be too sophisticated for face paint.
We went to San Francisco.
And New York.
And we saw a big space ship.
And also a hotel made of Legos. Because we went to Legoland!
Oh, and Olivia rode on her first roller coaster ever. Details to follow.
There is one of the photos of the orb webs I took, after gently spraying them with water to simulate dew drops. One advantage of my digital camera is that it saves photos at a very large size… like 72 by 56 inches, or something like that. So I can crop a photo way down, and still have an image at 72 DPI and 9 inches wide (or 8 inches tall) which are as big as I need for the blog. This is also how I got all those awesome bird pictures I took at my mom’s house in the Bay Area. Just crop around the bird and throw away all those extra inches of pixels. So, here is what I zoomed in to on this photo…
I suppose I could make lots of copies of each photo, and crop each one to a different part, but then we would never be done with this, so the challenge was to find an interesting part, and stick with it.
Original image.
Cropped version.
Original.
Cropped.
The thing is… (hello thing, where have you been hiding?)… that even the cropped versions end up being more than 9 inches, so I could go closer.
Although, really, in Photoshop, I can resize the images anyway. Maybe in the next post I will try zooming in on one water drop.
But I took most of these when the sky was still full of fog, so it might be better to see if I can find any where the sun is hitting the drops.
So many choices!
Anyhoo… I will keep on doing this, and I hope you enjoy the results more than the spiders enjoyed me spraying their webs.
HA!
Don’t worry, it is still the same thing that it was before, I just dipped it in some water.
Yes, it was a foggy, misty morning here in San Diego, and the orb web-spinning garden spiders are getting bigger, so I took some photos.
Once again, nature let me down with the dew/mist factor, so I broke out my little spray/mister bottle…
And I annoyed the heck out of the spiders… again…
They were not happy with me.
Not happy at all.
And I am getting better at this.
It is all about the angle.
And, of course, the fake dew.
I sprayed one funnel web, just for old time’s sake.
They don’t always work. It is hard to focus on a thin spider web.
But perseverance… and some extra moisture… really help.
Most of the time.
Don’t worry, I have plenty more of these, to mix in with my weird light photo series. YAY!
Well, obviously, that is another version of that same thing from the last post in this series, but not the first posts in this series, which were all versions of some other thing.
So, what I am telling you is that that up there is really the same thing as the thing above it, as is the next thing coming up below this…
And the one below this…
And this…
And even this…
And, to top it all off, the pictures in the next few posts in this series will be even more versions of that same thing right there, until they aren’t, in which case they will begin to be versions of something else. Got it?
Oh, I will tell you what that is…
And that…
And that…
And even that. They are all versions of the same thing. I will tell you what they are… just not in this post.
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