What Animal Is This?

What animals do you think these are?

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A Few Recent Pictures

I haven't been in a talkative mood these days, so I thought I'd just say a few thousand words:

Flight Maneuvers

Eye Witness

Make a Wish

Our first somewhat close-ups of a wild Bald Eagle.

Surrounded by Beauty

I love my family.

Courtesy Post

Sometimes I'm not in a blogging mood. Especially on extra tired days. Because I tend analyze everything I write to make sure its really what I want to say and how I want to say it.

But at the same time, I don't want to let my few, periodic viewers down by not having anything new to look at.

Maybe that's why I like pictures so much. They take less word-smith energy and are often more interesting than anything I could write.

A rare Moss Grove picture.

Rare for two reasons: (1) it was sunny and (2) it was early morning.

Blue Moon

Baby's first taste of cereal in all of her whole eternal life.

Apple-Turkeys to kick-off Thanksgiving week.

What are you thankful for?

Courtesy of our youngest son, this is one of my favorite Apple-Turkeys this year. I call him 'Sputnik'. Can you find his head?

By the way...why is more than one turkey spelled 'turkeys' and not 'turkies'?

A Few More 3-D Pics

Another view of the Lewis and Clark River near Ft. Clatsop.

A small sample of a wind-swept forest. Again the 3-D gives a significantly better perspective of the wind's capabilities.

I know most people looking at these pictures don't have a pair of 3-D glasses just laying around the house, but hopefully you will have a chance to see these pictures in three dimensions. It adds a depth and perspective. Its easier to imagine being there looking at it. Its well worth it. I'm still amazed at how neat the 3-D pictures turn out.

All I do is take a picture with one eye, then with the other eye and focus on the same point. (A tip: for objects far away, you may need to separate the two pictures by more than an "eye's length" away--see the Mt. St. Helens 3-D picture.) Then using picture-editing software, I take the red channel out of the right-eyed picture, take the green and blue channels out of the left-eyed picture, overlap them, and align both picture to a common point--voila! Stereo picture!

What's Your Highest "You've Got Your Hands Full" Rating?

I'm going to cheat on this post and refer you to a post I did on our Daily Dose of Mischief blog. On that blog, we document cute and mischievous things our boys do. (Mainly so we have proof that they deserve what they get from their kids -- I know your reading this, son.)

Anyway, I know judge our experiences going out in public as a family based on a "You've Got Your Hand's Full" rating. Read about it here.

Also, here are a few more 3-d pictures--hopefully you have 3-D glasses...its like your there:

Here is a picture across the Lewis and Clark River near Ft. Clatsop.

There is no way to really explain the destruction that occurred in the forests from last month's huge wind storm. Even pictures can't capture the massiveness of the impact as forest trees either snapped like toothpicks or pulled their roots out of the ground. 3-D helps bring out a taste of the awe-inspiring power of the wind. I'll try to get more 3-d picture samples like this.