Countdown to the weekend

I sure hope this weekend is as nice as the last one was. If the forecast I read just before preparing this post holds out it should be.
Last Sunday when I went out to do some grocery shopping I took my camera because I knew I was going to be going by a small lake.
How about we stroll around a bit.

I took a different road than usual and found a part of the lake that I've never seen before. It pays to take those back roads every now and then

I didn't see the Peanuts gang around anywhere but they must have been here....

...isn't that Charlie Brown's kite stuck in that tree?

obstructed

A few days ago I happened to notice the beautiful color in the sky as the sun was setting. Even though I have a very obstructed view of the sunset I grabbed my camera anyway.

Now if I could get my neighbor to move her house a little to the right and the church behind her to move a little to the left, this would be a much better picture.

Family Dive day 3

I'll finish my little family archive dive with Wade. First let me say that getting a picture of Wade isn't easy since he hates the camera. Most of the shots I have of him he is visibly displaying his middle finger.
This one was actually something that he requested. It's made up of several pictures. The background is a picture that I took at the beach. I also used a picture of one of his die cast cars, a picture of him and a picture of a water skier that I found on the internet. The car, Wade and water skier were extracted from their original pictures and placed on the background.

I wonder what the people in that boat think of the guy driving the car?

Family Dive day 2

Amanda's turn today. I've done some pretty crazy things to some of Amanda's pictures but I couldn't seem to find any of them. I turned her into a flower fairy once and she wasn't impressed. It's here somewhere on my blog but I didn't feel like searching for it.
So today's pictures are just a couple ordinary shots. When it comes to taking pictures of Amanda I always focus in on her eyes and her smile.  Not much of a smile in these two so the focus was more on the eyes.
The first is just a black and white

I liked this one when I did it but now looking at it I think I went a little overboard with highlighting her eyes.