Day 185

This is one of my 4 sets of state quarters that I'm collecting. Each set is waiting on the Alaska and Hawaii quarters. I'm keeping a set for each of my 2 boys, one for Alyssa, and another for Shawn and I. We plan on taking that set and visiting all 50 states, spending each of them in their own state.

Day 184

Today, I replaced the shower head in the upstairs bathroom and planned to take a picture of it for my photo of the day. The shower head is installed, but I'm not very happy with it. I think it's going back to the store tomorrow, to be exchanged for another one.

Day 183

Today's picture was taken with my macro lens. This is the bullseye of my soft-tip dartboard. Since this is day 183, I'm half way through the year!

Day 182

I spent most of this evening arranging and waiting on the air conditioner repairman to come fix our air conditioning. The temperatures have been over 100 for the last several days and our poor AC unit has been struggling. So, tonight I took a few pictures in the dark with a lighted top.

Day 181

Today we drove to Porter, OK to get some peaches. Porter is known in this area as THE place to get peaches. I picked a half bushel of peaches in about 104° heat. Here is a picture of some of my peaches.

Day 180

Today is our one year anniversary of the day we received our referral for Alyssa. This is a picture of Alyssa holding 2 of the referral pictures that we received one year ago.

Day 179

This is a heron I found in Joe Creek while I was riding my bike. It's really hard to get close enough to these birds to snap a decent picture because they get spooked very easily. I was wishing that I had my telephoto lens with me.