I was walking past the guest bedroom when I happened to look in and see this:
She’s got such a tough life!
Category Archives: Pets
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A trip to the zoo
September 21, 2008 – 12:44 pm
My husband and I went to the Dallas Zoo yesterday morning, and of course I took my camera along!
I like the kids looking at the parrot in this shot:
Penguins!
A gorilla — but I had to shoot this guy through the glass. I like the little girl’s reflection:
He got tired of us pretty quickly:
Some other birds:
And then, my favorite: the elephant!
Finally, one last random shot of a pretty scene:
I hope you all did something fun this weekend too!
YouTube really is amazing
September 18, 2008 – 1:31 pm
Now, I am a photographer, not a videographer. I have taken only one video in my entire life, on an old point-and-shoot camera I had almost two years ago. The video was of my two cats, who were having all kinds of fun with the box and packaging in which our wedding album had been shipped to us. I wanted to show the video — all twenty seconds of it — to my mom, so I created a YouTube account and posted it on the site. She watched it, we had a good laugh about it, and that (I thought) was the end of it.
But every once in a blue moon I get an e-mail saying that someone has posted a comment on my video. I usually ignore these e-mails, but I got another one today (in Spanish, no less!) that I decided to investigate a bit. I went back to my video’s YouTube page and saw that my silly little cat video has been viewed 4,431 times! I know that’s not a lot by YouTube standards, but it was pretty incredible to me! It’s collected comments, ratings, even favorites! And to my surprise, I was actually able to still log in to my YouTube account, where I found a message waiting for me from someone asking permission to use my video clip in a “‘pets and boxes’ episode of a cute pet video podcast”! Crazy, huh? I have no idea who watches enough YouTube to stumble across such a ridiculous thing as my twenty-second cat video (other than my husband, I guess, who spends most of day watching YouTube videos as far as I can tell), but it definitely gave me a good laugh.
And now, for you viewing pleasure, my video:
May it take the Internet by storm! 
My pooches
September 14, 2008 – 4:51 pm
While I was taking photos of the trees in the backyard yesterday morning, the dogs demanded to have their portraits taken. These have proven to me that it is now nearly impossible to tell them apart!
This one is Ollie (with his typical tongue placement!):
I’m fairly certain this one is Murphy:
Ollie again, I think:
This one is definitely Murphy; he runs in a diagonal line across our backyard over and over again . . .
Here he is taking a break:
And here they are together! I don’t know why I like this photo so much, it’s completely out of focus . . . but it just seems to fit them!
