Financial District Photog

It's been a while since I met Jen downtown for lunch. There's no better time than now while I'm taking time off, so we made it happen today. Jen thinks I've been hitting the books a little too hard lately. I study at least a few hours a day, meet with my study group about twice a week but, admittedly, find it hard to know when to close the books. Today, though, I forced myself to do just that.

I brought my Canon along and took some pictures downtown after our lunch date. I had not yet experimented with the monochrome setting on my camera and thought that the awesome architecture of the old financial district was perfect material. I'm really happy with how they turned out! Many of the pics, taken on some of the first streets developed in the city, look more like an old European town than and American city. Not to brag, but a few of these are frame-worthy. Enjoy!

Shotgun Wedding

We had beautiful weather and a great time this weekend. I gave up my Sunday shift at the restaurant to spend a day hang'n with my Boo and to see the band "Shotgun Wedding" play at LIC Bar next door. I heard this very talented "city country band" play in the courtyard while walking Pup a while back and have been wanting to see them play ever since.

I did work late Saturday night which meant skipping church and sleeping in Sunday. No worries, Jesus came to our house and we watched a few online sermons by Joel Osteen. He's good.

We went into the city for a quick shopping trip (3 hours is fast for us) where I bought a pair of orange pants that I think I'll wear to a wedding (not Shotgun). They're Jen approved so I'm taking the chance.

Jen made a delicious dinner of stuffed cabbage before we went next door to listen to music. Pup lay in the kitchen, napping in the sun and waiting for Jen to drop something she could help clean up.

I took some pics throughout the day with my new Canon. Enjoy the short slideshow!