Jo, as I said you inspired me to look around my kitchen and find something to photograph! Look what I found! Mousy Yes, it's a  mouse! There's a mouse that lives in my kitchen. Mousy2  Her name is Mousy, and she's really gentle and loves to be held and petted. Mousy3  Isn't she cute? Mousy4  She lives with another female mouse who is rather camera shy and doesn't like to  be held. But it's okay, that means more pictures for Mousy. Mousy5 Mousy6 Mousy7 And in case you wonder what she lives in, here's her house: MouseHouse

So, what's in your wallet? Er..I mean, Kitchen?

These are various pictures from my roamings. The first two are interesting in that I took these pictures to try to get a close up of the dragonfly on the leaves. What I got instead was his shadow underneath him which was pretty cool looking. You should be able to see his body and his wings in the leaf below him: Dragonfly Dragonfly2 These were taken at a local nursery. At the same place I took these two pictures of the lizard. Lizard Lizard2 The next two pictures were taken in Gruene, TX. I was photographing the Tour de Gruene (a bike race) and actually sold some photos! Gruene TX Gruene TX2 The rest of the pictures were taken at the SA Botanical Gardens. I've been there a few times and have bunches of pictures. These in particular are just general views of the gardens: Bot Garden Bot Garden2 The remainder of pictures are from the Japanese Garden inside the Botanical Garden. It's a really restful and soothing place to sit and meditate or just read a book: Japanese Garden Japanese Garden2 Japanese Garden3 Japanese Garden4 Japanese Garden5

My name is Moe...I am a cancer survivor. I had the worst cancer a cat could have...lymphatic cancer. I went through 2 lumpectomies, chemotherapy, and many different human medicines that I could barely keep down. My doctor had already sounded the death knell before we even got started. I showed him! After I had my lumpectomies, I had to wear baby clothes to cover my operations so I wouldn't lick the open wounds, they didn't bandage me up, they just stitched me together. Moe Jammies This happened in 2005. I only did chemo once and it was too much for me, it turned my belly fur grey! So I turned to alternative medicines and that's how I recovered so well! I went to a friend who was a Reiki Master and she gave me weekly Reiki treatments and then I went to see a friend of mine who is a Shaman and she did crystal energy work on me weekly and I improved rapidly. One day I went to a bookstore and got passed around to many people there who had different spiritual gifts and they each took a turn in healing me! In fact, I have been cancer free for 2 years now! We never went back to that doctor again. Here's how I looked after I was all better. Moe Butterfly Chair The rest of these pictures are just me later on. Aren't I beautiful?  Moe Moe 2 Moe 3 Moe 4 Moe front room Moe vignette

Author's note: the first two pictures were taken with a 3.0 mpx Kodak Easy Share camera, that's all I had at the time.

This was my first studio shot. Our studio is in our house. The subject is my friend Lester who graciously gave me permission to post these shots. The reason for the shots was to post them on a dating service for Lester. I used two lights with umbrellas and a roll of white paper. The first shot I did was the Captain Morgan pose, Captain Morgan Pose then I tried a shot with my cat Squeaky Hold the Cat Then we did a sitting shot Sitting Pose I took a lot of shots and then brought in the posing table for a more serious look. Rose Pose then I took a bunch of shots on a black background and here's a couple of them: Black Background Black Background2 So let me know what you all think of these, I did a minimal enhancement on them.

More from the San Antonio Zoo. Wait until the African Exhibit opens up in a couple of weeks, hope you don't get tired of looking at Zoo pictures! :)Birdy Flamingos Hyena Kangaroo Lory 3 Lory 4 Lory 5

BTW, please let me know if I over-enhanced some of these? Thanks.

Here are some more pictures I took at the San Antonio Zoo. The first one was in the Butterfly Garden, a Butterfly had attached itself to this young girl and she let me take her picture.Butterfly Girl Then I found this poor ragged Butterfly laying on a large plant Butterfly 2 While I was walking around I saw a beautiful red Hibiscus and took it's picture, I never saw the fly that was lurking near it but it came out in the picture.Red Hibiscus I was watching some otters playing and took a couple of shots Otter Otter 3 then I took a couple of shots of some Monkeys. Monkey Monkey 2 They're so cute!

All of these pictures are of my cat Simba except for the last one. The black cat next to him is his brother Moe. Moe has a really great story to tell and I will feature him on the next post and tell you all about it. Both cats were born in the same litter along with a third cat. They were all males. Simba is going to be tested very soon for kidney disease and if by chance he has it his other brother (Not Moe) will be the organ donor and will be donating a kidney for him. I never had children so I always tell people these are my furry children. Simba 2 Simba 3 Simba 4 Simba 5 Simba 6 Simba 7 Simba Moe

I went back to the San Antonio Zoo today and took some more pictures of the Snow Leopard. He is a magnificent animal. This time it wasn't a fluke shot, I just shot tons of pictures of him with a Canon EFS 75-300 lense. These are the best ones of the batch. Snow Leopard 2 Snow Leopard 3 Snow Leopard 4 Snow Leopard 5 Snow Leopard 6 Snow Leopard 7 Snow Leopard 8 Snow Leopard 9

Ben H. Carpenter had a vision. His vision was to transform his family’s ranch, fondly named El Ranchito de Las Colinas, meaning the Little Ranch of the Hills, into a world class development. Las Colinas would be transformed from the open grassland of the past into an urbanized community for a new generation of Texans. Mr. Carpenter was determined to create within Las Colinas a grand plaza, a gathering place for future generations. In order to establish a unique identity for this urban space, a sculpture that captured the free spirit embodied in the heritage of Texas would be the centerpiece. Wild mustangs that roamed the early days of Texas would be the identifying piece for this grand gathering place. Mr. Ben Carpenter unveiled his plans in 1973 that would turn his family ranch into the world renowned master-planned community it is today. Finally, on September 25, 1984, the sculpture was in place and the plaza was open for the public to inspect and enjoy. Assembled together were the nine bronze mustangs, forming the largest equestrian sculpture in the world. The centerpiece of the plaza, the Mustangs of Las Colinas, shall be a lasting memorial to the vanguard of the civilization of Texas.Mustangs7 Mustang1 Mustangs2 Mustangs3 Mustangs4 Mustangs5 Mustangs6

I took this picture at the San Antonio Zoo. This beautiful Leopard was behind a chain link fence and I had no idea how to shoot the picture. So I pushed the camera up against the chain link fence, took aim and fired! This is what came out, it was a total fluke! It was probably one of the best pictures I have ever taken. The chain link fence never even showed up in the picture! For the Challenge  

I thought I would give you the whole tour in this story. To start off with I want to show you the banner they made for it, they never noticed Vettes was spelled wrong.Banner When I got on board I was amazed at how orderly it was.Front View It was a major "boatload" of Vettes (pardon the pun). The only problem I had was that most of them were positioned so close it was hard to get a picture.Red Vettes I came over to a section of Red Vettes and this woman was showing everyone her license plate.Red Plate Here is a side view of the ship. Side View I'll show you some more Vettes. Pace Car Eagle Vette Eagle Vette 2 Vette and Jet Lastly I want to show you some under the hood art on these cars. One guy had a son who died in Iraq and the art under the hood was a tribute to him. Under Hood Art 1 Hood Art 2 Hood Art 3 It was a great day for pictures and to see some beautiful cars.

This is a shot I took of my cat Simba. He loves to have his picture taken. Eventually I would like to get into Pet Photography as a hobby. I love taking pictures of animals.

This is just a continuation photo of the Vettes & Jets on the Lex weekend in Corpus Christi, TX.  I wanted to  give you an idea of how many Vettes got squeezed onto the flight deck of the USS Lexington.Corvettes2

In September 2007 a group of Corvette clubs gathered  together on the flight deck of the USS Lexington. There were 305 Corvettes from one end of the deck to the other. It was a one time showing of some of the most beautiful American muscle Vettes & Jets cars I have ever seen.