We spent some time last night around the fire. The owner had a huge pile of brush down by the pond and we told him we'd be happy to burn it form him. While we did that, we got some camera fun in. Here are a few of the results. We spent some time doing some long exposure and even got to do a bit of "double exposure."
A long exposure of the fire, fire tenders, and the moon.
A long exposure with some of the family in a flash picture.
Jeff and I were going to head up the hill toward the road. No reason, just because. In this family, there's no way anyone can get on a golf cart alone. Therefore, it became Jeff, me, and 6 of the kids (one of them another adult!).
Pretty sure we are at max capacity for this golf cart.
We go up the hill and get all the way to the road. As we begin to come back, I notice that the cart will coast quite nicely on the way down. So I decided to see if we could go without touching the brakes. While I wasn't able to do that (almost) we did have a good time all the way back down.
Normally, Papa goes to the grocery store. In fact, he had already been before we arrived this time. However, Michelle and I went this morning to get a few things. We had a list and even asked everyone if they needed anything. No one needed anything. While we were there, our group text blew up and we started getting requests for every thing from ingredients for complete dishes to floaties for the little kids to use in the pool.
By the time we left, we were on the verge of insanity from the huge number of text requests we got.
On even years, e.g. 2014, the extended Jones family takes a vacation together. We've gone to Tennessee three times, Cedar Lake south of Dallas one year, to some friends' cabin and to Galveston two times. This year we have decided to go to Arkansas. We are in the middle of nowhere (specifically Marcella, AR). Most often, we stay in a single large house. However, this year, our accommodations are actually a repurposed Y2K compound with a cookhouse including 2 bedrooms, 3 cabins (each with a couple of bedrooms), a pool, and what I like to call "the tabernacle." In reality, it's an outdoor pavilion with 4 bathrooms.
So we are in the middle of the woods, next to a river and it's pretty dark. I'm looking forward to a good week.
