Here come the brides!

On my recent trip home, I was lucky enough to attend the wedding of two of my friends from Denison, Kara and Katie, above. Don't they look so happy? These pictures are from immediately after the ceremony and include many from Denison.

Here they are again, this time posing for somebody else's picture.

Katie with her mother.

Some people don't like their pictures taken...

But I got her this time. Nancy, Rachel, and Hydy.

Sarah and Debbie

And here she is again! The little shutterbug...

Just two seconds too late... Here are Lisa and Sarah.

Sarah again, tripod provided by Nancy.

The Best Cake Ever.

Debbie, Rob, and Sage (and a dozen other people) throw around the ol' disc.

A bit of clever cropping, and you can hardly tell we have no idea where the camera is aimed.

What? What's this? Someone's been sitting in my tonka toy, and here she is! 

World, meet Zachary Joseph; Zach, world.

I was able to visit my high school buddy Stephanie while I was home to cook a meal for her and her husband Joe. They showed me around their new, beautiful home, and I also had the pleasure of meeting the addition to the household, their bouncing baby, Zachary. Right now he's working on focusing on individual people, but I'm sure he'll soon learn to do the dishes, take out the trash, mow the lawn, rake the leaves, resurface the driveway...

A little bit of father-son bonding.

And then there were three. Ah, look at those smiles of pre-toddler bliss. 

Outdoors Ohio

As always happens when it rains a lot with little down-time between rains, our yard flooded and spilled over the driveway. To think we used to swim in that when we were younger... that water's nasty!

This is just a closeup of the cherry tree... for something different. I think I might use it as a background for my desktop.

Cherries ripe for the pickin' on a tree in our yard.

And fresh strawberries, too! 

Watch out, moths!

A Delta gypsy moth trap placed by my sister Jackie. One of the things she's doing this summer is working with the state to track these bugs' migration. And -- I'm embarassed to admit this -- it's actually quite fun!