happy trails with mouths full of grit

took the kids out riding two weekends ago...we ate a lot of dust, got to pee behind bushes, dined on salami, cheese and crackers and explored the beauty of the desert (not necessarily in that order), goooood times.

brader (in pic #1) spent a lot of the time puttering around our day camp, he's pretty cautious, but i'd rather that than the opposite...eek!

dale (pic #2) showing off his mad power-slide skillz. (heh heh heh, he knows what the next pic in this succession would have shown, but i'm not telling...)

the tall kid, the girl and their ma (pic #3), damn boy kept trying to run us off the road - he wouldn't let me pass him and i do believe he would have just plowed into me had i gone for it, he was determined to keep me eating his dust...never did catch the little brat.

the girl and her ma (pic #4), rest assured her mouth was more than likely moving at the time of this shot...

packin' hairy legs...

not really - i shaved the night before, LOL! haven't posted any pics in a few weeks. dale and i morphed into scooter-trash this last sunday. it was a beautiful day for motorcycle riding so we hopped astride the marauder and headed towards the mountains for a few hours...my canon digi was just too bulky to take along, so i chose to take along the smaller olympus and it did pretty well, it was a really hazy day and i caught a few sun flares, but i like how most of them turned out.

one thing about d is that he will, at any moment in time - regardless of where we are, pull over for a photo op. if i happen to see something on the fly, he will turn around to get me back to that perfect shot with nary a bitch. yes, he is that awesome. here are a couple of shots from up near millerton lake...absolutely gorgeous flowers in bloom everywhere. unbeknownst to him, he gave me his best marlboro man pose too - bonus.