Racoon Springs On A Hot Day

Racoon Springs is really just across the river from us but we have to drive down to the bridge and around the golf course to get to it if we don't want to cross through the river. You may recall that I included Racoon Springs in an earlier blog ..... it's a special place where the chief indians from various tribes would meet in peace .... probably smoke a lot of peace pipe :) Anyway Lea and I really like it there even if it is in the middle of the golf course.
We came to the conclusion that we needed to update our photo equipment and resume our stock photography ..... we're still making money from various agencies but not very much because we haven't contributed for many months. I purchased a new Nikon D700 with a couple of very nice lenses and Lea got a professional HD Video Camera ... I'll include a photo a little later in this post.

But .... back to Racoon Springs. It seemed like the perfect place to go to test out my new Nikon body and lenses and while I was there I was realizing again how special this place is and how much I enjoy being there ..... so ..... I decided I will continue to bring along a camera other than my usual iPhone and try to do this place justice with some nice photos of which I will post on this blog as I do them. So .... here's the first two :)




Diana and Nancy have been busy remodeling their kitchen but we plan on getting together on Sunday for some play time. Of course they have the best "play time" in the whole world .... right out their back door .....



It's been unusually hot here so we limit our outdoor activities to early morning chores or those involving water as you well know. But we also do chores involving water like watering the plants and writing our names with the pressure water into the dirty driveway ....



We also do constructive things with the power washer like cleaning our deck .... here's a before and after in one shot ....



Our pepper plants are doing very well in the heat and they're now becoming part of our dinners .....




Of course it's never too hot to BBQ .... here's the new rolling BBQ table I made in action .... Millie kinda got in the way but it's there waaaaaay in the background .... smokin



And last but not least ..... here's Lea's new Video camera right out of the box ....



Ever notice how often Millie finds her way into our pictures? Wait .... here's one of Andi who snuck in while I was taking a photo of Lea after she relocated her drums to the basement .....



Ozzie got in the act on that one too.