The Plume: 2014

11/30/14

Cora's First Thanksgiving!

I am very late on posting this, but here's a link to some pictures from our first Thanksgiving with Cora!

https://flic.kr/s/aHsk5VmRK4

10/13/14

Folk Fest has come and gone again. I was happy to go and practice some more with the camera. Odd lighting, fast movements and far away seating all provided ample challenges. A lot of manual settings and a bit of color tweaking in post processing helped bring some pictures to life. Here a few of them.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessmith82/sets/72157648361326828/

9/28/14

BBQ and friends

A little celebration with friends and family. Thanks Scott for hosting and everyone for being there and for your generosity and support.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessmith82/sets/72157648173846571/

9/2/14

Shady Grove YMCA 5k

A friend and YMCA director asked me to take some pictures of a 5k race they were hosting. I have been trying to better my photography skills, so this was a great opportunity to test some things out. I took a lot of pictures and some came out pretty well. Here's a link to the set.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessmith82/sets/72157648236190805/

8/11/14

Jared/Karen/Wes Birthday party at Bryan Park

A few pictures I took at our birthday party! Some baby pics, dog pics and hanging out with friends.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessmith82/sets/72157646347140125/

1/20/14

Happy 2014!

It's mid January now. Hope your year is starting off well. We've been busy getting the garden ready for early spring. We had dirt delivered after I made a couple raised beds. Each bed is 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 16 inches deep.

When I built it, I didn't think 16 inches was all that deep. After filling them with dirt, all I could think was "that's a lot of dirt!" so I think it worked out well. I put chicken wire on the bottom of the raised beds to keep moles out. We put ground cover around the edges of the beds to keep the grass and weeds from creeping into the beds. We have PVC piping on the inside of the beds to allow longer, thinner PVC pipes to bend over the bed which will hold up some clear plastic sheets to make a greenhouse effect for the beds.

We built a fire pit and added a rain collection barrel we got for Christmas. We've been busy with work, school and hobbies and fun projects. Here are a few pictures.