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Sleepy Ben

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

After a couple days Ben got settled in and liked to sleep. A lot.

Nine-Minute Ben

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

At 8:34 PM this past Monday my wife and I had our first son. Here he is about nine minutes after he was born.

JAXUL

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500

I've played frisbee for a few years now and just over the past few months decided to get serious about it and play in the local league. Here's a few photos from one of the league's games last week. I'm going to try to travel around with some of the better club teams and get some more experience.

Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

This past weekend I helped out my mom's Peterbrooke Chocolatier store since it was Valentine's Day weekend and that happens to be one of their busiest times of the year. Myself and a few others dipped over 8000 strawberries for sale mostly on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Saturday was the busiest and we pretty much never stopped dipping all day.

Even though there was a lot of work to do I had fun with it all and now consider myself a strawberry-dipping expert. The only part that sucked was when a strawberry head would break off from the leaves (which you hold) and the berry would drop into the chocolate. You needed fast fingers to keep it from sinking. There were plenty of screw-ups like those to eat after the store closed each night!

Morning Moss

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

I'm always a fan of moss growing on stuff. The almost-noon sun was painting the forest floor with a nice angle of light.

Gold Head Sunset

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Here's some grasses near the lake in Gold Head Branch State Park around sunset.

Morning Scrub

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Small scrub like this is a very common sight in Florida's forests. Besides making for nice photos sometimes, you can use them to get a fire going or even as some extra padding if you're sleeping directly on the ground.

Jaguar Stare

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The jaguars made for good photos so I thought I would post some more. I think one of them was staring at a spectator. The jaguar stayed locked like this for several minutes, carefully watching whatever interested it.

Birds

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Some birds from the zoo. I have no idea what species they are.

Colobus Monkeys

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

There's a large enclosure of Colobus monkeys in the African section of the Jacksonville Zoo which I always enjoy. These guys (or girls actually) are always very relaxed and amuse me with the stuff they do; they seem very human in how they handle each other and the ways they perform tasks like eating and walking around.