The Addington Outpost: January 2016

Weather Man Calls for Snow

6:21 PM

We woke up to snow two mornings this week. While I love waking up to rain, waking up to a quiet white earth is better - by far! It only took me about 30 minutes of minor bribery to get Chloe on the sled, but once she'd figured out that it really was FUN, it took more bribery to get her back in the house - where it was toasty and warm!

For a Tennessee "snow storm" - we did pretty well. I think the inner child in me wishes for 2 feet of snow when I fling the curtains open on the morning of a promised snow event. But, according to the calendar there is still a chance of that. . .winter isn't done with us yet.

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Red Rock Canyon

8:04 PM

A Cast of Deserted Beauty
2010

I have hundreds of photos I'd label my favorite - and this is one of them. In fact we currently have this photograph printed and on display in our home. This was a photograph taken on an impromptu trip to Nevada in 2010. We stopped off a Red Rock Canyon, outside of Las Vegas - and it was one of the most incredible sights I've seen, especially at sunset. Each evening the fading sun casts its final light across the Mojave Desert - setting it on fire. While my photograph only captures a small hint of the Red Rocks to the right, it was the valley in which it overlooks that caught my attention.

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Winter Sunset

6:49 PM

Silhouette
2016

As we pull our of our driveway, our view looks west. The setting sun falls on this field differently each evening. I captured this photograph very recently when a dense fog settled over our valley before sunset. It was truly a sight!

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Giraffe

9:44 PM

Tree Top Grazing
Zimbabwe. 2012

In 2012 Jon and I travelled to my home country, Zimbabwe. It was a very significant trip for many reasons - two of them being Jon's first trip to Africa, and my first time home in 12 years. Our family gave us the royal treatment - and this image was captured during our first few days there. If I close my eyes I can relive this encounter like it was today. We stayed at a game reserve for a couple of days - a genuine safari experience that oozed the African Adventure.

One of our favorite memories.

Specific location: Antelope Park, Gweru.

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Happy New Year!

6:54 PM

Almost 10 days into this new year and I've yet to actually handwrite 2016 on a piece of paper. Where are the days where you give the new year a quick written test drive? I think I'm going to point at the digital world and remain firm that the reasoning is there.

Going into this new year I started with no resolutions - as always. This for the same reason I don't "wait until Monday to start the diet". . .if I'm going to do it, I'll just jump right in. So for the last few weeks I've had this wonderful plan to organize our photographs. 40,000 photographs later I realized I have ALOT of photographs hiding away. A couple years ago we upgraded our camera from a Canon Powershot 4500 IS, to a Canon 6D. I like to think of our first few years as the warm up to the real thing :) The new camera allowed us to take our photography to the next level. The hobby turned into a business, which is currently waiting patiently for my return - so - two small kiddies later and we're back to enjoying the camera as a hobby. Through it all, we have captured some INCREDIBLE images. Throughout this year I'm going to showcase a few of our favorites from our journeys together. Think of it as the next series, following the last one I did - "one good thing. everyday".

Sit back. Enjoy. Next up "Snap :: Our Adventures".