Today parents decided to clean up the yard, I went out to help [and take pictures] but was banished back into the house because my skin burns so easily. At least I was able to help my mum rake most of the backyard, I also got some amazing pictures of these little wild flowers that grow in this area every spring.

I'm not sure what the actual name for the flower but we've always called them Blue Bells






They aren't very large at all really, not sure how big they look to you who haven't seen them before [if there is anyone out there like that]




Yesterday I went with my parents to Grafton so my dad could fix a sink for my aunt, I got to spend a couple hours with my cousins. Which I'm happy to say I really enjoyed!

My aunt's Devon Rex Ivan. He's usually far more illusive when we come over unlike the Cornish Rex he hides, but he was up in one of his favorite spots. The back of the computer monitor


This is Brooke's Ragdoll Frodo


He's not nearly as active as Ivan, at least not whenever I'm there to see which makes for great opportunities to get some macro shots of him


Brooke with her kitty, I need to remember to send these to my aunt, I told Brooke that I would


Bram playing with his digital camera, he'd wanted to get a picture of my earings [I has so many of them ^_~]


Brooke being a goof, they're really fun kids to take pictures off, they don't get self conscious at all. And I've noticed the last few times I've gone to see them that both Bram and Brooke gravitate towards me, wanting to talk and show me things.


I admit this is something they did a long time ago too, but their approach is less annoying now ^_~ I can actually talk to them [for the most part] and seeing how Bram and I share several things in common it does make the visits more interesting


these are McFarland [thing that's the spelling] dragons that most of my cousins have been collecting. Pretty impressive detail for models that I gather don't cost all that much


She was dancing for me, and I was just so thrilled with how this picture turned out! so sharp in some areas but you can see the soft blur of movement in others, love this camera!


the kids went across the street to play with their cousins [my cousins too] I think they were playing a game called Spud. Griffin was the first out so was talking to me from the swings


Here's little James watching from his mummy's window, he was so much more outgoing from way up there ^_~


Look at that smiling face. He kept asking me if I was a mummy. Because just recently he'd found out that my aunt Monica was a mummy too and was taking every opportunity to call her that, which got a little confusing for my aunt Noelle


Sad faces all around, because I wouldn't stay outside an climb trees with them ^_~ [not seriously, I just really wanted to get a picture of each of them doing it]


Bram's got this one down pat ^_~ [think you could learn a thing or two Kate?]


Griffin just makes me want to cuddle him ^_~


showing off his skateboard for me


The kids love playing DDR so I took a couple of videos of Brooke and Griffin showing me their stuff





So these last two pictures are totally unrelated to the other, but I do like to take macro pictures and I thought it was interesting how similar these new meds look. the one in the front if Prozac and the second is my new medication something called Biphentin. The pharmacy was concerned that I might get them mixed up [not so worried myself]


one more picture, just cause I like the angle and the face that you can see the camera in the reflections off the pill.


That's more pictures than you can shake a stick at! I started a photobucket account so that I could post some videos of my cousins without them being as completely public as youtube makes them.

Though I'd like to ask has anyone else had problems copying the embeded text? I took both videos but LJ wouldn't acknowledge them, I decided to try adding < /embed > and it seems to have worked. I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced that.

Anyways this took way longer than I was intending...I guess I better go back to doing whatever I was before....now what was that...