Pixel Darkroom Photography

Two young old friends. It was such a fun time to play soccer with them. One versus one is the most efficient way of teaching skills and ball control. These guys had an amazing time and ran for a long long time. I’ve known both these little guys since their first hours of life. What a blessing!

Today we went to Home Depot again, after a long time, to take part in the workshops for kids. We could have made a (rather useless) flag holder of some sort, that would have been thrown away in a few days, or could have made the rain gauge, which we decided to build, and which we will probably throw away in a few weeks after it gets all distorted from begin soaked in rain water.

A fun and useful project considering the weather here. The kids had to play with glue and pound on a few nails. They had a hard time with the nails and this reminded me of my first time I had to hit a nail. I must have been five or six. There was this shoe repair workshop on the corner of an intersection, back in Romania. I still remember it now, it was on my way home from school. We used to walk a lot. My mom took me to this shoe repair guy. She had to pick up some shoes from there and the man must have asked me if I have ever hit a nail. I don’t recall the whole visit, but I do remember he made me hit a nail and try to drive it in a piece of wood. It kept on bending. With a few hits, he did it easily. I kind of know what’s in my kids’ minds (especially my boy) when we have to hit the nails at the Home Depot workshops.

There are so many things that I see now with different eyes and I remember similar situations from when I was a kid. I’m sure this happens to everybody who has children, although I hardly hear people talk about it. I feel the transition from one generation to the other almost daily. It’s such an interesting feeling.

This is how we feed the kids here. Boil a bunch of pasta and put it on the table. Everybody grabs as much as they can need and then we throw them in bed. Then, if they wake up early in the morning, (earlier than us that is, which they do) they get self serve leftover.

Strobist info: 580 EX II 24mm CR bounced into wall corner via PW.

Note: this post is on the same note as the UFO post some time ago. Take it with a grain of salt.