Karen's Photo Journal

Goodbye old blog, hello new!

karen@karenard.com — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:59:27 PDT

In my excitement to start using my new blog, I forgot to post the information, here, on my old one.

For the last year or so, I have posted my art, thoughts, music tastes and so much more here. You have served me well old friend.

Please visit my new web site and blog here: www.karenard.com

Let me know what you think of the new design. On the blog you can vote for your favorite photo by clicking on the I love it button under your favorite shot! I will leave this blog up for awhile so people can still visit but I will not be posting to this blog any longer... goodbye old friend.

Changes are on the way...

karen@karenard.com — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:58:45 PDT

I have some awesome things happening here in the next day or two. Hee hee hee. I am so excited! My main web site may be down for a smidge but please make sure you check back if you get an error message. I can't say more then that. You'll have to check back in a few days. ;-)

I'll leave you with an image I took in a cemetery in New Orleans.

iPhone pic: Zuma

karen@karenard.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:40:36 PDT

One of the iconic images that reminds me the most of spending every day as a kid at the the same beach that my kids now hang at.

Victory

karen@karenard.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:10:54 PDT

This past Sunday, my family joined our good friends for their annual family picnic. I have been partaking in this ritual on and off for the last twenty years or so. Close friends are family with these guys; that's just the way they roll.

They start cooking the day before and get to the park early to hold our spot. Needless to say the food is awesome and catching up with everyone is great. It's kinda strange watching the kids grow and change as I don't see some of them except on this yearly occasion.

The part we all look forward to are the games. Egg toss (my hubby and I were champs two years in a row!), tug-of-war, pie eating contest, passing-the-apple (is there a real name for this game?) and, of course the annual softball game.

While I am not a competitive person by nature, I must say victory is sweet. I really must want to gloat if I'm posting this very unflattering photo of myself after winning three rounds of the apple-passing game. People, this is what victory looks like!!!

My daughter rocks the hula hoop!

This one cracks me up... aftermath of the pie eating contest. She didn't win.

My daughter and I challenged hubby and son in the egg toss. We got out after a short while but they came in third.

I took this just a millisecond after the rope broke. Man, I wish I had my real camera to capture all of this. The delay on point and shoots is still annoying.

"A" about to hit it out of the park... in flip-flops!

iPhone pics: Hollywood

karen@karenard.com — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:49:56 PDT

The Firefighter and I went out last night; a rear treat. We took the Metro into Hollywood, ate at some hole in the wall pizza place, took some photos in the Lucky Strike photo booth and saw a play at the Pantages. I squinted my eyes, left reality for a few hours and pretended I was in New York! I had no intensions of taking photos, but, since I can't control myself the iPhone camera came out for a few snap shots. I added some 'noise' to duplicate my favorite old school film grain.

My fav of the night...