French day

She made 3 today loaves today. Crunchy and tasty!

Early pictures of Big Boy and his brother

This is a blast from the past.
Danny on left, Jake middle, Andrew right.

Andrew helping with the feeding.

Danny with his typical holding pattern. He always held the cats in this manner.

Big Boy, Rest in Peace, 1987-2008

Wedding of James and Liz Riha on Saturday

Saturday was a beautiful day for a wedding. James is a wrestling buddy of the boys.

Neighbor's 1st Communion

Anna made her First Communion this past weekend. I took a few pictures after the event.

A walk with the ticks

Mary and I went for a walk today. Beautiful day! Some pretty flowers and ticks.
(Grandma, Click on the picture to see it larger)

Shotgun Wedding Press Pics

taken today in Columbus

Shotgun Wedding opening for Jeff Bates

A huge crowd turned out. SGW was the opening act.

Hi AJ!!

I have this picture of you catching a football at Thanksgiving dinner 2005 at Grandma's. It's pretty good. You are really concentrating. Talk to you soon.

Hi Chloe!!

I see you left a few comments on my blog. I am glad to see you are visiting. I dug out this picture from 2006 to post here. It is the latest I have. Stop by often to see what we are doing.

Uncle Karl

2008 Easter Egg Competition Winner: Emily Rozzo and Butterfly

...and the results of the 2008 Easter Competition are:

Receiving the Popular vote: Memoirs of a Geisha 8 votes
Artist: Mary Monk
Comments: A broad based favorite also receiving the most comments. (Tammy, the boys understood. Thanks Rebecca.)

Egg Pool: 4 votes
Artist: Jake Monk
Voting demographics: broad spectrum, no clear profile. Young, a bit older, North and South.

Butterfly: 4 votes
Artist: Emily Rozzo
Although some of the votes came in after the deadline, in the spirit of a fine Chicago election, I counted them.

Easter Sundae: 3 votes
Artist: Emily Rozzo

Stein visits: 2 votes
Artist: Jake Monk
Interesting voting demographics on Stein visits. Sam (age <1 year) and Stephanie (Katie's friend)... humm, I wonder how old. The artist, Jake Monk, has a warped (smart people call it eclectic) sense of humor. Clearly, Stephanie is also marching to a different drummerette.

D-egg Care: 1 vote
Artist: Mary Monk

OU Peace: 1 vote
Artist: Andrew Monk (collaborating artist in absentia, Miss NJ)

The REAL Easter Bunny: 1 vote
Artist: Andrew Monk The question was asked: Where to Easter Eggs come from? Answer: China.

Freedom doesn't come in a bottle: 1 vote
Artist: Andrew Monk

Sean and Danny: 0 votes
Artist: Sean

School Spirit: 0 votes
Artist: Danny Monk (collaboration: Jake Monk)

DG: 0 votes
Artist: Mary Monk

And the winner is: Butterfly
(super delegate voting is never fully understood, but very effective in manipulating results)

Contenders: D-egg Care, Butterfly and DG. Each of the three finalists demonstrated merit, but Butterfly ended up winning.

Clearly, Butterfly, while not winning the popular vote (what do the people know?) was the best of the entries. Butterfly would win if entered in a larger contest.

Congratulations to Butterfly, the winner of the 2008 Easter Egg competition.

All results are final (unless money is available to prompt a re-count.)
Big Dad (See you all again next year.)

Reference Posts: Hillary and D-egg Care

Inspiration comes from many sources.

Late Entry, Hillary, Yes, I'm Irish

Easter 2008

2008 presented another hard fought Easter Egg competition.
Vote for your favorite.
Voting closes 8pm EST Sunday evening.
Enjoy!!

Brutal competition

Sean and Danny

Memoirs of a Geisha

Stein visits

OU Peace (front and back shots, of course)

The REAL Easter Bunny

D-egg Care

Butterfly

Egg Pool

Easter Sundae

School Spirit: The OSU Buckeyes

Freedom doesn't come in a bottle!!

DG

Contact Sheet

Click on this to enlarge and view

Uncle Bob and Sam

Uncle Bob and Sam

Grandma and Sam

Lauren, Taylor, Sam

That Lauren and Sam are sure cute.

Mary and Sam

This kid is a load.

Bo workin' the Wii

Jody

Jody is now the gf with seniority!

Andrew is 22

Family picture (left to right) Mary, Danny on phone, Andrew, Jody (no father, as usual)

Neck Watch

I've started a new campaign called: When will we see a neck? I've been watching for months and not seen it. In fact, I'm not sure he has a neck. This picture seems to hint that a neck might be present, but, clearly, is not proof. The watch continues.

I am going to change a few things

Did you catch this picture during a commercial for JC Penney during the Oscars? It hit me hard.

I know I'm getting over the flu and am on an up swing of 'positive', but this one grabbed me.

Here is what I saw and what I want to be.

I saw a women (and man) enjoying their wedding day. They were not upset about the rain and the lack of sun. They knew what mattered was the event and not the weather. They have it figured out. It's simple, but I forget sometimes.

Digital ProTalk: So How Many Pixels Does It Take To Make A Face?

Digital ProTalk: So How Many Pixels Does It Take To Make A Face?

I'm a big fan of this guy, David Ziser. I took a photography class from him. If you're interested in shooting better pictures, this is a great blog to bookmark.

Westminster revisited

A repost of Mary trying out for judge. She almost made it, but when she found out you had to wear ugly shoes, she withdrew from the competition.

Bo, Sam and Dad

You know, these guys really do look like their father. It's amazing.

I need to post some pictures of kids

All of these pictures of Bo, Sam and Luke are causing me to go back and find a few of the 'older' kids. I scanned this in. Will have to scan some more. From the wording, it looks like one of the Monk boys wrote this, but I don't know who.

Adult Content below, The Moment of Conception

My friend, Larry, took this picture at IceFest.

Hamilton IceFest 2008

Cool stuff to photograph. (As always, click on the pics if you want to see a larger version.)