Happy Halloween!

I really like Halloween. I don't LOVE it and go nutso or all out during this time of year but I really like it.

We used to live in a smaller town than we live in now, and it was a very friendly place. The little neighborhood where we had our first little house would come together during Halloween. We'd all sit on our porches and talk and get to know one another and look at all of the childern's adorable costumes. I miss that a lot. Maybe we can start the tradition here in our new neighborhood.

This year is different for me because it is my Son's first Halloween. He is going to be a dinosaur. I hemmed and hawed quite a bit over what I would dress him as because (stupid me!) most of the costumes that my husband and I liked a lot were sold out by Oct 1. He is going to his grandparents today and I am going to put him in his costume to get pictures of him with them. Unfortunately it's supposed to be unseasonably warm here today so I can't keep the costume on him too long cause the poor guy will get too hot!

You may or may not know that I am proudly owned by two black cats. They were litter mates and we adopted them from the Shelby County Kentucky no kill Shelter. My husband was forced to give up a black cat when he started seeing me because my cat at the time had FIP. When my cat Max died of Cancer a few years later our house was very empty and lonely. Every noise I heard, that I was used to attributing to Max, only made me miss her more. I looked online at the local shelter and they had a litter of black cats that needed adoption and I knew that the universe was telling us to go see them. Thats when we went to adopt Sahara and Lill.

They have been a joy in our lives ever since. There is nothing like the love one recieves from a pet.

Ok! Since this is a photography blog, how about gettin to the pictures!

The first picture is a photo of our fake pumpkins on my front porch. No fire involved so that I won't burn my hand off.(I am a SERIOUS clutz) :-) Taken with my Canon Rebel XTI 400D with my 70-200mm IS USM zoom lens (it's the clearest lens I own and I love it!) Set to AV mode f5.0 aperature and a 1/30, ISO 200 shutter speed. (It was just after dawn when I took it this morning)

The second picture is of Sahara. Again, same camera, AV mode, F2.8, 1/10 shutter. ISO 800. taken in September.

The next two photos are of the trees in my back yard, this morning right around dawn. ISO 800, AV mode, F5.0 and really slow shutter speeds. I used the posts on my deck as a tripod because there is no way I could've gotten a good photo just hand holding my big ole zoom.

I am still ever so slowly going through my photos from the Worlds Championship Horse Show and I spotted a few good ones that I'll be uploading sometime later.