Draw-off

When my brother and I were little kids, we used to spend the bulk of our days drawing pictures. Our dad would bring home reams of computer paper which we use as large canvasses, working together to make hyper detailed murals.

Last night, we attended a wedding reception where guests had Polaroids taken and were asked to fasten them to a scrapbook and express their best wishes to the newlyweds, Jenn and Wayne. This is what our facing pages looked like.


My sister-in-law Kelly said that she had always dreamed about us getting together to do something like that, since Greg collaborates on drawings with their daughter Saoirse all the time and our mom often recalls how he and I used to do that, too. I can't remember the last time we broke out the crayons--Sharpies in this case--and it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, the magic ended when we went to our seats. We were placed at different tables.


But the folks were nice and so was the meal, with excellent food (the main course was framed by two appetizers and two desserts) and DJs playing cool and obscure '60s rock and soul. The only thing missing was a view of chimps playing in the trees. Did I mention that we were at the San Diego Zoo?

On the way back to the car, I took some pictures with our long-lost Ricoh GR-D. I love the Lumix FX100 (the recent 16:9 shots I've been posting) but nothing handles night shots like the GR-D.




The flamingos and topiary elephants looked good, and so did Jenn and Wayne. Congrats!