Another Season of Vikings Football

My son London is a football player at Valley High School. He’s a big strong guy who gets to push other people around within the confines of the gridiron and I’m proud of his progress every day. It seems like he’s better and better after each practice. Of course, that’s his dad talking so you’d expect me to say things like that.

The Balloon Glimmer at Waterfront Park

My son London’s birthday celebrations kicked off with some awesome visuals as we loaded up and went down to Waterfront Park’s Fest-A-Ville for the Kentucky Derby Festival’s Balloon Glimmer. That’s where a few hot air balloons stay on the ground but activate their flames to make their balloons glow to the delight of the crowd.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the Highlands

Every year, one of the bigger deals in Louisville is the weekend before, or on, St. Patrick’s Day. With the profusion of Irish-themed restaurants along Baxter Avenue, having a parade in conjunction with St. Paddy’s is one of the no-brainers of the city.

The 2015 Kentucky Derby Festival Is Off and Glimmering

This past Thursday night, the family got together and headed for Fest-A-Ville kind of on a whim. Misty talked to her BFF Becky who said she wanted to take her daughter, my play-neice, Emma to see the Balloon Glimmer. The Glimmer is a scaled down version of the Great Balloon Glow

Forcing variety can be a good thing

Once upon a time when I was a photographer in search of a style, I forced myself to think about and perform photography every single day in something that, at various times, was called the Daily Photo Project or Photo du Jour. The object was to get out of cliched shots like

Slip and Slide Day

A couple of weeks ago, we decided to have a Slip and Slide Day. Okay, not really. The reason we really had family over because everyone loves Misty’s lasagna.

A teenager in the house

 

We recently celebrated the birthday of my son, London. One of the names I call him is “kiddo.” I won’t go into some of the other names because they belonged to a real kid. London just joined the ranks of the teenagers. Oh joy.

Did you miss Becky’s birthday?

This past Saturday, Becky came by the house so that we could celebrate her birthday. I didn’t ask, but I’m sure she had other great birthday celebrations, but we were excited because we think we had the best present.

Swinging for the fences in downtown Louisville

London took a picture of me in front of the giant bat.

On the last of our family field trips along Museum Row on Main Street in downtown Louisville, my son London and I made it to the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. The Hillerich & Bradsby company created this tourist attraction in 1996 and since then over 3 million people have visited, including the Girton boys.