half a year, illustrated

i'm uploading something like half a year's worth of photos today. not that i've had my camera out all that much. and it shows -- most of the ones i took toward the end of 2008 are extra-super-blurry. i still hate using my flash, but i've gotten worse at making things come out clear anyway. while i'm waiting on the rest to get to flickr, i'll post a few random shots...

in honor of the inauguration tomorrow, here's the photo i meant to post on election day, of people lined up outside the polling place in the rain:


the battleship across the street from my office:


at least the current apartment clutter is a little bit better than this, from when we'd moved in most things but unpacked almost nothing:


a heron in the park a few miles from here where i liked to go running back when it was warmer:


jaredan and davenne dancing in the park when michael q. and i took the crazy road trip down for chatta-atl-nash-knox-nooga-ville:


joanna, airborne during the charleston comp at lindy focus:


the roanoke star! (from the week i spent there training for my job in september):


husband and johnny in the interlude between nicci's wedding and the reception:


bush sr. speaking during the commissioning for the ship named after him: