Brown Eyed Girl

Brown Eyed Girl, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

She did a pretty good job for her first time under the lights. It will definitely not be her last.

Scoutypants Marie, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Scorcher

Scorcher, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

This is a partly burnt tennis ball near an extinguised controlled fire in the Ann Arbor arboretum.

Spring Light Abstract

Spring Light Abstract, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Every morning I wake up to this, I want to get the perfect picture of dappled light coming through the tree outside of my 3rd story apartment bedroom window. It's hard to capture exactly what I want, but this comes close.

Allergic Dog

Allergic Dog, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Scout itches her feet a lot, as well as other parts of her body, so when we took her in to the vet yesterday for a checkup, it was suggested that she may have allergies. Figures. Kathleen and I both have pretty bad spring allergies - it's only fitting that our dog does as well.

Later today she'll have some benadryll.

Scout, our new dog!!!

Scout 3, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Yesterday Kathleen and I rescued a puppy from the Humane Society of Huron Valley. We named her Scout. So far, she's an absolutely wonderful adult dog who is nicely house trained, is energetic yet can calm down, and she's making us both very happy pet owners :)

Scout 4, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Scout 2, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Scout 1, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Pizza Time!

Pizza Perspective, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Kathleen bought me some awesome Christmas presents: a pizza stone, a pizza peel, and a huge and very sharp pizza cutter. With these tools, I have made it my goal to make awesome pizzas.

I like what she and I have come up with so far.

Pizza Full, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Pizza Closeup, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

Shattered

Shattered 1, originally uploaded by RLHyde.

So many years ago, when I used to work for SEEUS at EMU (google it if you want), I found this set of plates abandoned in a vacated set of married couple dorms. I took them home, boiled all of them (you can't be too safe) and put them to use. I started with 4 big plates and 6 little plates. I still have all of the little ones, but this here represents the 2nd to last big plate. I only have one functional one left, and I think it has a chip in it.

I still wonder why someone would leave behind these awesome plates.