Endikos

Tomorrow is Valentines day and my 6th wedding anniversary.  This is one of the mint truffles my loving wife made for me for our anniversary :-)

I’m so fortunate to work in a place that has so many cool things to look at!  I foresee much more shop-oriented photos on this year of photos venture.

This weekend is Valentine’s day, and little candies like these are going to be overtaking homes and schools all across America.  I know our home has already gotten a whole bunch of them for ourselves and for kid’s class valentines.

Almost 2 weeks down, and 50 to go…  time for a bit of abstraction.  What could it be?

Tonight we got together with good friends for our weekly “small group” meeting.  While at their house I noticed these little bear figurines on the fireplace mantle, and thought they’d be a good addition to my collection of daily photos.  I thought this little bear had a really fun little personality, and that he needed to be shared with the world, or at least the three of you that know this blog exists :-)

Do you – can you – put love in a box?  Or perhaps love is given as a gift? Maybe it’s discovered accidently. Or maybe it’s sought after with great fervor.  I’ll let you figure out what’s being said with this one :-)

This is the shot I was trying to get last night.  I broke down and brought out a light this time, and the shot is much better for it.

My oldest son, Gabe, has this cool wooden motorcycle that he picked up while we were on vacation to New Mexico.   I had tried some other photos tonight, and they just didn’t turn out the way I’d hoped… so Gabe gave me a cool subject to shoot.  It was either this, or a super nifty model airplane that shoots automatic missiles that stick into the ceiling (or so he says).

Somewhere inside me is a numismatist just trying to get out.  I have a bit of an interest in coins.  The older the better. In fact, I’d love to have a collection of Biblical-era (New Testament) coins.  While this coin certainly isn’t ancient, it is very old.  This is a 1797 British Penny, and it’s massive.  About 1 and a half inches across, a quarter inch deep, it weighs in at about 2 ounces, and is made of pure copper.  It was a gift from my grandmother and was likely on the boat across the Atlantic when her parents came to the US.  Oh and if your curious what the inscription on the reverse side means, it’s a latin phrase. “Georgius III • D:G • Rex •” Is short for “Georgius III • Dei Gracia • Rex”, which is Latin for “George the Third, By the Grace of God, King”.

Today’s shoot was a lot of fun.  These Matryoshka nesting dolls were given to me by my friend Ed when he returned from a trip to Russia.  I love toys and knick-knacks, but these little cats are probably the most novel piece in my collection of fun little things. They’re hand painted and signed, and I took a LOT of shots in various stages of assembly until I got to this little gem.