and finally, onto the objective of my posting today. sunday was jess's long awaited bbq, and this is the group shot of everyone who attended. i don't really remember half the names of the people in this, but by the time we took this pic A LOT of people had left already, which was sort of weird. why save the group pic until AFTER people leave? but then if you think about it, we had barely enough room to fit these people on her back porch and in the pic, let alone all those other people too. i had to do this with flash on, since without flash it looked like god was dropping the sun on us. i also ended up taking bunches of pics of the giant pine in the back, as well as the sky in several different shades as it started to set. i'm the one with the outrageously colorful shirt. mike right behind me, and jess right behind him. the rest i either don't remember or don't know well enough to mention, so there it is.


that's theresa with (kim's) baby, she really wanted me to get a pic of her with it ^^;; i love the warm lighting in this. so did she, haha.


this is an interesting tree stump in jess's backyard. looks like it got struck by lightning or something. if i were a kid i would love to burrow in that hole and make a little fortress, given that i don't know how dirty it is in there. looking at it now, it actually reminds me of a bird's nest the way the twigs are sticking out everywhere.


and this is said pine tree with rain clouds coming up. i believe this was sometime in the afternoon when everyone was still out playing sports and such.


and then this is the same pine tree with the sun setting and clouds that look like tire tread marks. the dark clouds above the tree were left out of this pic, but were actually swirling sort of in a circle, so it felt like the storm was going to be directly above us. with that said it was actually pretty surprising that it didn't rain at all while we were there. it had rained beforehand though, which left the grass wet and slippery. my ankle still hurts from slipping while trying to dive for the birdie (badminton).


anyway this is a zoomed out pic of all the swirling clouds, or part of them anyway.


and these are the tire marks with a trail of clouds that makes it look like a plane just crash landed.


...and the trip home!