Nightime Visitor

Ryan was sitting at the kitchen table before he went to bed and noticed what he thought was a hummingbird outside.  Turns out it was a butterfly (or very large moth) - beautiful!  It's about five inches across and six inches long.

Strawberries

Fresh from the garden!

Rainbows

I have been trying to use my Canon xTi for pictures for this blog this year, but when we saw this double rainbow all I had was my phone.  By the time we got home, the rainbow was gone.  Thank goodness for the camera on the phone.

Anticipation

Derby Cookies

I completely forgot I had pictures of these tasty sugar cookies we made for the Derby two weeks ago.  (I really should pull the pictures off my DSLR more often).

They were fun to make!  The ones where we frosted the entire top look a lot more like a hat, but it was so much easier to frost each piece separately and then combine them that a lot of the cookies got finished that way.  (Had I been having a party, I might have made more effort.)

Still want to find a way to make ribbons... maybe next year.

Corvette Museum

I'm not much of an architectural photographer, but the Corvette Museum has this neat red steeple that can be seen from outside the museum for miles. This was a chance to show the inside and outside.

Outside, from the parking lot

Inside (this is a merge of two pictures)

Through the celing