I figured it had been a while since caliblog had a good amount new photos posted - so I dug through our Sequoia stash and thought I would go with a black & white theme, hence the title. Now I think Amanda used at least five rolls of films at the park but only one of those rolls was b&w, so I or someone will share the rest some other time. Until then...


I believe this was taken the night we got back from the park, poor cat had been locked up the bedroom all day.


This was probably the third time we pulled the car over within a five minute period, we wanted to keep driving but the look-out points kept getting better and better.


Actually, this one didn't have anything to do with our mini-vacation... but it was black and white and got mixed in with the others... so yeah. Our mirror is dirty.


We thought this tree was cool 'cause it was named the "Michigan Tree", plus it was the first fallen tree we stumbled upon, no wait - the second, but the first one was cut into two halves so it doesn't fully count. But seriously, look at the size of that stump, I guess you can't tell from the pic but she is sitting within the bottom 1/3 of the base. Later on I climbed around to the top of this tree, and keep in mind it was tipped on it's side, but it was without a doubt the highest off the ground I had ever been in a tree... vertical or horizontal.


Again, nothing to do with our trip to Sequoia. We just take a crap-load of pictures of our cat in the sink, he loves to sleep in there.


You can't really tell from this picture, but there is a tunnel running right through the center of this fallen tree, and it's hollow enough were you can actually walk around with out hunching over at all. Impressive.


I don't know when this was taken of me, I know it was in the park of course, but I'm drawing a blank.


Here's the "Michigan Tree" again, you can see a little more of it's height in this pic but still, not all of it.


And aww... here's a photo of me kissing Amanda's cheek because if I tried to smile at the camera it would have just turned out scary... I'm not very photogenic 98% of the time.

Now I'm making a huge effort here to not mention anything involving the "p-word"... so I would greatly appreciate some response people. Or else it's back to "p-word" commentary, well okay, that's inevitable, but I'm making a big effort to balance my post from now on. And it's far more difficult than you would assume, it's like waning yourself off of cigarettes or pop... the first step is admitting you have a problem right? Not that caring about the state and direction of... stuff... is a bad thing, but too much of any one thing can blow up in your face. Okay, I'm rambling. Enjoy the pictures... 'night.