We made another trip to Iowa City so Logan could have his kidney's scanned.  It turns out both of his kidney's are working fine, even the one that is full of stones.  That sounds like good news but really wasn't.  Today's test was supposed to show what was causing him to create the stones so we could come up with a course of action to fix the problem.  As it turned out we still don't know and he will undergo another test sometime this week.

There's nothing special about this sign but someday they'll be gone and some one will ask, "remember those wooden signs with the routered out stencil kit letters that used to be at Rockwood Park?"  I'll pull up this photo and say, "Yeah, I remember them"

This is a Target Brownie Six-16 that belonged to my great aunt and uncle.  Now it's on my shelf as a decoration.

Nicole got the windows tinted on her hot rod today.

I spent some time in the bird blind today and during a lull in the action shot some self portraits.

In the past when I have photographed birds around my feeder I set up a dead stick nearby as a perch.  Today I decided to add some life and use a branch with some leaves on it for a more realistic look.

My daughter has completed driver's ed and now just has to wait until her sixteenth birthday to get her license.  If we go somewhere as a family I usually sit in the back and let her Mom be the co-pilot.  Tonight we were heading to my brother-in-laws 40th birthday party and I sat in the back and snapped pics out the window.   

The kids both ditched us for their own friends so we tried a new place for supper.  Tappa's Steak House in Davenport, Iowa.  It's the kind of place we wouldn't have found if some one hadn't recommended it.  

I'm still trying to figure out this Oggl app.  I can change the edit but can't seem to figure out how to export to my camera roll after I change the edit.  Frustrating at the moment.  Luckily this is crappy picture so it doesn't really matter.

I practically had to beg her to pose for me because; "I'm not even wearing make-up".  But after seeing the final result she said, "I think it's my favorite picture you've ever taken of me."

Hipstamatic has a new app out called Oggl.  It seems to be there attempt at a social network to compete with Instagram.  One cool feature is that you can apply the lens/film combos AFTER you take the picture.  At the moment there are only a few free combos but it says the ability to import film and lens from Hipstamatic Classic is "coming soon".  

So I downloaded it early in the morning and the only thing I could find to photograph was Logan sleeping.  I didn't expect this to be my photo of the day but I kind of took the rest of the day off (as far as photography goes.)

Later in the morning I ran 8 miles.  I haven't run that far since May 28, 2011.  Ten days short of two years ago.  I'm happy to be going longer distances again but my head is swimming with numbers.  My average pace today was 11:30 per mile.  I was happy with that until I looked up the 2011 run.  I did that at 10:15 pace on the exact same route.  Why such a difference?  Is it because I'm two years older?  Is it because my post knee surgery mechanics are slower, causing me to expend more energy to go the same speed?  Is it because I didn't run at all during January and February this year?  By May of 2011 I had been running non-stop for a year.  This last year has been off and on because of back and shin injuries. Maybe I was just pushing harder back then even on easy runs.  I don't know but I hate the thought of not getting back to where I was.  If all of this has been difficult to follow, imagine being inside my head.  It's even worse. :)