Surviving to adulthood

My wife often kids me about how my brother and I survived to become adults. Usually she says this, after I tell her many of the stories about growing up as a kid. I think nah.. it wasn't that bad.. but when your brother has just as many crazy stories as you do about growing up then you realize; Yeah maybe you were pretty lucky to make to adulthood. Tony shared an interesting story about how while my father was sleeping, he decided to make himself some food on the stove. He was only 3 or 4 years old. Since my dad worked in the evenings he slept during the day when my mom was at work. One day while dad was a asleep, Tony turned on the gas oven. Luckily my dad woke up and turned of the gas. Then I thought about how many other stove incidenty had happened growing up. We had 2 grease fires back in Cumberland. I remember the Fireman saying hey haven't we been in this house before for a fire... I was like nah you must be mistaken. Who would have 2 grease fires in the same house. I guess having to deal with some adversity when your young helps you better handle it when your older. Make sure to give your kid some adversity.. I think sometimes kids including my own don't get enough of it now a days.

Summer is coming.

My favorite season of the year is summer. I was going through my photos from last year and came across this one in my Flickr.com photo stream. What struck me was that I really liked the photo and there were ZERO views on it. Meaning no one had looked at it. My most popular photo by the way is a the URI cheerleaders at the URI Uconn Game. I guess that is why they put good looking guys and girls in beer commercials. Its been busy and haven't had time to download the latest photos so in accordance with this years green theme I am reusing this photograph. Crane's beach MA.

Family Walk

Family walk. First of the warm weather in New England this year. We took the whole family for a walk. Our second walk with the the entire family and the dog. Pretty cool park over in Gloucester even when there aren't any leaves on the trees. Here are some of my favoriate pictures. I try to squeeze in the photography when I can with the family it isn't easy. Good pictures are made up of 4 very simple things. The right light, subject, composition and timing. But dam is it tough to get all 4 of these things at the same time. When I look at our kids on these outings I often wonder if my parents had the same thoughts like I do now. What will our kids think when they look back on these times and will they remember? I hope they do.