and it’s a beautiful day and everything is good…

here are the photos i took of the LAST TOMB CEREMONY OF THE YEAR.  the sky was beautiful on tuesday night.

once again, kevin was in the back.  he claims he’s in the back because he’s so tall.

i kept trying to get a good shot of him, but he was continually covered up by somebody.  all you can see here is the top of his hand.

and don’t those two guys to the right of him look at least as tall as him, if not taller?  yes they are.

as they got ready to shoot, i couldn’t see him at all, not even his jacket sleeve.

there he is!  looking very very serious.

i was about to get a good picture, and as the shutter finally clicked, this guy walked through.  damb flag thing.

the sky got more and more pretty.

here they are at the end of the ceremony.

and this is the final picture of them for the year, unless i happen to be there when they’re doing some random thing between now and next summer.

the next night, the sky in the back yard was incredible.  when we walked out on the deck there was a pink cast to everything.

the smoke stacks were really cool.  they don’t even look real.  i love this picture.  kevin said they look two-dimensional, and i think he’s right.

the pink didn’t last long, though.  here it’s almost gone…

i wanted to get a picture of the sky from the deck but it was hard to see much of the sky because of all the trees.  we were about to race to the front yard to get another shot, but by then the pink was completely gone.

wednesday was AMY’S BIRTHDAY, by the way.  so if you happen to see her you can wish her a belated happy birthday, although she might not like that because she doesn’t like lots of attention focused on her and her special day.

right now i have to make her BIRTHDAY CAKE because we’re celebrating tomorrow night.  so if you do wish her a belated happy b’day, DON’T MENTION THE CAKE!

actually she told me that she was going to make her own cake but i put my foot down at that.

ok i must get busy now,

friday grace.