A few more pics, part 2, 4/4/08

First, a barn along Ohio 7 in Gallia County, near Swan Creek Cemetery. Back in the 1980s, I shot some slides of this barn at sunset. It was silhoutted against a red sky. Whenever I get a scanner, I need to digitize that photo. I like barns. Sometimes when I'm driving up Ohio 7, I look at how the number of barns increases once you cross into Gallia County. That county probably has more barns per capita than any other county around here.

Blooms on my neighbor's tree. This is cropped way down, and the light was not the greatest, plus the wind was blowing, so it's not the sharpest photo in my portfolio. But this time of year I like to see trees blooming and turning green.

Taken last fall, a dead leaf refusing to fall to the ground.

Finally, my youngest son and his favorite plaything. It's a metal scale model of a Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner C2 conventional body school bus, given to him by the Thomas Built marketing director after learning of Adam's intense interest in buses.

Some people get exasperated and aggravated at Adam because of his love of buses, but I encourage it. Too many kids don't have a passion, and Adam has a passion for school buses and Freightliner semis. He likes Freightliners because Thomas Built is a division of Freightliner. When we watched "Spider-Man 3" on DVD, he was the only person in the family to notice that the Sandman took refuge in a trailer full of sand attached to a Freightliner tractor. Look it up.