One of my favorite pictures of Chris, taken on the beach at Humbug State Park. It took him four days to actually relax enough to sit on the beach. Relaxing isn’t his strong point. He pretty much likes to be in forward motion of some kind. I like to tease him and say he only has an “ON/OFF” switch because he doesn’t do Idle or Neutral or even Park.
When I showed Chris this layout, he said, “Hey, that’s a good picture of me, where’d you get that?” Which will go down in my collection of “Infamous Stupid Things People Have Actually Asked Me”.
I took this picture! Who else was there taking pictures of our camping trip? hmmm? (see my eyes roll) and its a good picture because I take good pictures, (see my eyes roll again) Framing is the key for me. Always take the time to frame your picture. Get in close, no, closer.
Yes, there really is a collection, I’ve been saving them up for years and years. My dad is the best provider of these.
For instance:
When we all lived together as a family, my mom, sister and I went shopping at our local Safeway and came home with groceries. Now Safeway has a distinctive large red “S” on all of their paper grocery bags and they are scattered all over the counter and kitchen table along with many groceries, do you see?
Dad comes sauntering in (yes, he always tries to act very casual when entering the kitchen full of foodstuffs, as if he is very unconcerned about all that food and where it may be going) so, anyway, he comes sauntering in, sees a kitchen scattered with groceries and grocery bags (remember the big red “S”?) and zooms right in on one little item.
Can you guess what it was? Cookies! Of course it was cookies, he’s a guy. So, anyways, he sees the cookies in their lovely Pepperidge Farm package and asks us (I am not kidding, this is a real infamous quote here) he asks us this:
“Where did the cookies come from?”
Upon which, Mom, myself, and my sister immediately begin falling over with laughter. And he is puzzled. What’s so funny? GASP! What’s so funny?????
