Today's picture comes from Johns Hopkins main campus in the city. This is from the pictures that I took a few months back, but never posted all the ones I liked. On our first trip to Hopkins, I commented to Jenn about how I felt like it was an actual college. Hopkins has done an incredible job at creating the college life experience, and college look and feel right in the hear of the city. Something I think Towson is still struggling to do at another end of the city. Enjoy!

Campus Life

This is a picture of the scoreboard at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Its one of the few, if not the only, scoreboard that is still manual. I think Fenway Park's scoreboard is this way as well, so it has that neat nostalgic feel too it.

I wanted to post something about baseball because I wanted the opportunity to complain about the Yankees. As an Orioles fan, I don't like the Yankees. Therefore, seeing them purchase another World Series title doesn't sit well with me. It sucks that baseball is a sport in which you have the ability to spend, spend, spend your way to winning. Its clear that in football things don't work this way (otherwise the Redskins would be winning Super Bowls left and right, and that certainly isn't happening). I think as an Orioles fan, watching them loose year after year, and seeing them play the Yankees 19 times a year, its just really hard. So to all you Yankees fans - bugh. You suck.

Baseball

In just over a month (by one day to be exact) Jenn and I will heading to Miami to take our third cruise. We're going because friends of Chad (my co-worker) are getting married and they had a group discount so anyone that wanted to go could, so we signed up. Unfortunately for us there is the inevitable heartbreak of leaving Abbi behind for a week, but I think we'll survive.

I took this picture of a cruise ship leaving out of Baltimore a while back while we were visiting Quiet Waters. I thought it was pretty cool to see a ship boating down the bay headed out to the ocean. Jenn and I have seen a few ships at the Port of Baltimore as we drive over the Key Bridge, but never one actually at sea, when we ourselves weren't at sea. Enjoy!

Cruise Ship

Here's a picture of the Atlantic Ocean that I took when we visited Ocean City a few months ago. That little trip we took was almost 2 months ago now and feel like forever ago. It was a good trip and I'm looking forward to next year when we can go again. I always like taking pictures of the waves and such at the beach, but never really know how to get/make different or more interesting compositions. Any suggestions? Enjoy!

Rolling In

Thankfully its finally sunny outside again and the weather says that its supposed to be that way most of the week. The downside in my opinion is that now the sun goes away by 5pm, way to early! I took this picture while Jenn was driving the other day down Rt. 2 near Jumpers Hole Rd. I love how the trees change colors and line the roads. Who ever thought to leave some trees in place instead of destroying them all for roadways had a good idea. When I'm stuck in traffic at least in October and November there is something nice to look at. Enjoy!

Finally Sunny

Hopefully this will be the first of many pictures featuring both Audrey and Abbigail. For Halloween we went up to the Sofinowski's where they were passing out candy and offering us free food :)! We put Abbi in her costume and walked around with Audrey, Jake and Angela for a bit so that Abbi could experience her first Halloween. She didn't like getting into the costume very much, but once we had her in it, she seemed to be OK with it. Enjoy!

Costumes

Last night I went out to photograph the pumpkin that I carved last week. I decided this year that I wanted to get a plastic pumpkin and carve an intricate design into it. Jenn and I carved the ravens logo into a pumpkin 2 years ago and it was a mess. On top of that, it took a ton of time and didn't really work all that well. My thought was to carve it again, only in more of a permanent way.

So here you have our permanent ravens pumpkin! Inside is an electric candle we have. I used a 20 second shutter to capture the light and then used a flashlight to add a little extra light on the real pumpkins to give it the look you see below. Enjoy! I'll of course have pictures of Abbi and her costume this week coming up.

Happy Halloween