Who coulda seen that coming???

Remember when I asked you which photo I should enter in the Minnesota Zoo photo contest? I had a hard time deciding which one, so I went with the overwhelming favorite. With the contrast bumped up a tad. It had some great competition, and in the end was not selected as a finalist.

HOWEVER...

...in a strange twist of events...

I stuck this one in the "People and Places" category, and...

...it made the finals!! Who'da thunk??

The photo with the most votes wins.

If you are on Facebook and would like to help me out, click here to view the photo. You will have to "Like" the Minnesota Zoo first, and then you can "like" my photo. Thanks a million! It's open until August 30. I will keep you posted on the results!

Backing up

As of this moment, my computer is, shall we say, comatose. So I have done all the backing up I can, and hope to be back in action soon.

That to say, I have no photos. To post. I have backed at least most of them up. Thankfully.

So here's a picture you can just imagine for yourself. I was invited (as an "involved parent in the district") to a meeting at 7:30 in the morning with the superintendant and presumably some other invitees. As a former teacher, these types of meetings were the norm for me and no big deal. But 11 years later, I am never anywhere but home at 7:30, and haven't frequented a professional setting since back in the day.

I walk into the auditorium and introduce myself to the superintendant, take my seat in the third row behind the other handful of attenders, and proceed to take my glasses out so I can read the handout. Wow, it's early to be reading, I think to myself, wondering why my glasses seem only to make it worse. I clean them inconspicuously on the hem of my shirt, and commence again with my reading, peering over my specs to listen in on the pre-meeting conversation. Still the reading is so cloudy and I am aging by the minute.

The problem? I was peering over...








...my sunglasses.


Now go, back up your hard drive for heaven's sake! You'll be so glad you did!