Happy Friday to You

I have a few pictures for you today. 

This week’s theme for Foto Friday is “silhouette”.  (which I never spell correctly the first time!)  I was going to take a new picture of Jack this week for this prompt, but I was too lazy  decided to pick one from my archives instead.  This is one of my favorites.  Jack was 6 months here. My little virtuoso. 

A friend of mine (and her friend) started a new photo challenge. This one has prizes, so I thought I’d get over my fear of submitting photos alongside REAL photographers and submit one this week. I like to support my friends, so I’m only partially in it for the prizes.  Here is my best photo from this week.

Since we live very close to a military airport, we see a LOT of KC135s and C5s.  They routinely do “touch and go’s”, which is when they come in for a landing, but just touch down, then go back up in the air again.  They’ll circle around and do that over and over again.  Each time, this is the view that we get. (This is a C5 –the largest airplane in operation)

 

And here is a picture “just because.”  Last weekend, we went to Gramma’s to watch the OSU game.  (they lost in OT)  At one point, Jack and Gramma both had on their Ohio State scarves and were reading a book together (during commercials I’m sure – Gramma’s a big Buckeye fan).  I thought the image was super sweet and wanted to share it with you today.

Have a great Friday!  And a really great weekend. 

Foto Friday–Out the Window

Today’s theme was a little tricky for me to come up with, but after scrolling through my photos, I ended up with two that I can’t decide between.  I’ll let you pick your favorite for today.

We went to the National Air Force Museum near Dayton, OH a few weekends ago, and boy was that fun!  They have three HUGE hangers full of military planes that date back all the way to the Wright Brother’s first plane.  It’s a free museum, which makes it even more impressive. 

There are two cockpits that kids (or anyone) can sit in to see what it feels like to be a pilot.  Jack loved them both.   The F-4 cockpit made Jack look so little!  I got down on my hands and knees to take this picture, and I’m so glad I did.  I love how he’s peeping out of what would be a window if it was a complete cockpit. You should click on the picture to see it bigger.  This small image doesn’t do it justice.

The following weekend we went to EnterTrainMent Junction near Cincinnati, OH which has the world’s largest indoor model train display.  It was not free, and perhaps a bit overpriced, but very impressive all the same.  The models were amazingly detailed.  You could stand there and look at one little scene for five minutes and still not see all the tiny little details.  That is, if you didn’t have a toddler pulling you to the toy train area. 

While looking at the detailed buildings and scenery, I noticed one building that was a jailhouse.  It had an inmate escaping through the window, and I thought that was the funniest thing. 

See him?  He’s escaping “out the window.”

Thanks so much for stopping by today and seeing my take on this week’s theme.  As always, please visit La-La’s Home Daycare to check out other Foto Friday submissions.  If you blog, and don’t already participate, you really should!  This photo meme is not intimidating at all and everyone is so nice when they stop by!

Have a great weekend!