See the most recent photos posted, regardless of which photo set they belong to.

Street festival on Oct 25, 2008

During our annual trip to the Drum Corps International World Championships. This year they were in Bloomington, so we stayed in nearby Franklin.

August 9,2008, Blommington, IN 1st - Phantom Regiment: 98.125 2nd - Blue Devils: 98.100 3rd - The Cavaliers: 97.325 4th - Carolina Crown: 96.800 5th - The Cadets: 94.750 6th - Bluecoats: 93.175 7th - Santa Clara Vanguard: 93.025 8th - Blue Stars: 90.425 9th - Blue Knights: 88.250 10th - Boston Crusaders: 87.275 11th - Glassmen: 87.200 12th - Madison Scouts: 85.225

Visiting Kansas City May 16-19, 2008

Visiting Oklahoma City for my birthday, April 11 & 12, 2008

Our first year to attend Manny's annual party featuring his orchids in bloom.

Oct 27 street party

Well, I live in McKinney, but close enough.

Aug 8-14, 2007

Drum Corps International World Championships - Aug 11, 2007 - Pasadena, CA 1 - Blue Devils - Semifinals: 97.300, Finals: 98.000 2 - The Cadets - Semifinals: 97.250, Finals: 97.025 3 - The Cavaliers - Semifinals: 96.775, Finals: 96.350 4 - Phantom Regiment - Semifinals: 95.400, Finals: 94.850 5 - Santa Clara Vanguard - Semifinals: 94.050, Finals: 94.175 6 - Carolina Crown - Semifinals: 93.875, Finals: 94.150 7 - Bluecoats - Semifinals: 93.750, Finals: 94.050 8 - Blue Knights - Semifinals: 90.450, Finals: 90.275 9 - Boston Crusaders - Semifinals: 89.450, Finals: 89.100 10 - Colts - Semifinals: 87.000, Finals: 86.150 11 - Glassmen - Semifinals: 87.025, Finals: 85.750 12 - Spirit from JSU - Semifinals: 85.500, Finals: 84.500 Due to the famous LA traffic (and poor planning), we missed the first 4 corps. That won't happen next year.

March 17, 2007

Gathering for Eric & Eric's Anniversary/House Warming

Visiting Eric & Eric

Danville, Arkansas & Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas

Aug 14, 2006 (DCI Trip)

October 22, 2006

1. The Cavaliers: 97.200 (semifinals: 97.875 - 1st) 2. Phantom Regiment: 96.850 (semifinals: 96.825 - 3rd) 3. Blue Devils: 96.550 (semifinals: 97.000 - 2nd) 4. Bluecoats: 93.175 (semifinals: 93.500 - 6th) 5. The Cadets: 93.075 (semifinals: 93.625 - 4th) 6. Santa Clara Vanguard: 92.350 (semifinals: 93.550 - 5th) 7. Blue Knights: 90.125 (semifinals: 89.350 8th) 8. Carolina Crown: 89.975 (semifinals: 90.275 7th) 9. Madison Scouts: 87.700 (semifinals: 87.950 10th) 10. Boston Crusaders: 87.325 (semifinals: 88.775 9th) 11. Glassmen: 86.000 (semifinals: 86.275 - 11th) 12. Spirit from JSU: 84.825 (semifinals: 85.275 - 12th) Get a taste of the show on ESPN2 on Sept 5th at 8 pm EST

Trip for Rich's Board Exams. First set where I've used Capture NX to "develop" the photos. There's definitely a learning curve, and many of the photos ended up too saturated. But Capture is definitely a great tool which'll take some practice.

My first class in B&W photography... where I met Jenn... who introduced my to Flickr... well, the rest is history...

Downtown redevelopment in Kansas City

Progressiion of the demolition of the Jones Store in downtown Kansas City... I won't miss the architecture of this building, but what are they going to replace it with?

Trip to Provincetown on Cape Cod

Trip to Boston, MA

2005 DCI World Championships at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA. Watch ESPN2 on Sept 6 10 pm EST.

My granny had a green thumb, and though I didn't inherit the gene, plants and flowers remind me of her.

Trip to Dallas & Austin 7/7/05-7/10/05

Trip to Dallas, June 3, 2005

Featured Tree Houses

Some friends of ours bought some land and are building a "getaway" outside KC. They came up with the name as a play on their last names (cute, huh?)

Taken with my friend's Nikon D70 before I purchased mine.. everything pretty much on auto. Went out and bought one a week later.. awesome camera

My birthday trip to Philly/NYC

Arkansas trip 5/20-22/05