My parents do these things occasionally.
My mother has started reading fanfiction. Not a lot, not really any fandoms I pay much attention to (just CSI so far, from what I could tell), but still! (This is an awesome and good thing. I am not complaining. I actually dug up the two CSI-related fics I know of for her.
This afternoon, right as I was getting ready to walk out the door to work, she came over and said, entirely too excited about the whole thing, "JKR's outed Dumbledore!"
... Over dinner, it came up again, and we had to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining to my father that this meant the character, not the man who plays him in the movies.
Beyond that step into the unexpected, though, the day was a bit boring. I was prodded awake this morning by my parents, who were going out to drive around and look at the foliage. I needed to come! And bring my camera to take pictures with! It would only be an hour or two. Come on, please? It'll be fun! And bring the camera.
Okay, fine. I dragged myself up and stumbled into the car.
FIVE HOURS LATER we got home in time for me to eat a light lunch before going to work.
I'll probably upload some of the pictures I took later. A few turned out really well. (Most didn't, since despite my mother's insistence that I take pictures of nearly everything, she wasn't willing to slow down to allow me to do so.)
Edit:
Images added. No direct pictures, just a lot of links to them, if anyone wants to see. They aren't as nice as they should be, because it got cloudy shortly into the drive, so things just look duller than they should.
I'm going to toss in a few of the blurry ones. I just like the colors in these, even if the image itself isn't that great.
Blurry 1
Blurry 2
Blurry 3
Blurry 4
Blurry 5
Blurry 6
Blurry 7
More blurry
We drove past/through the Dead Creek (what an...optimistic name) waterfowl refuge.
Crane
Dead Creek 1
Dead Creek 2 (not our van)
Dead Creek 3
Dead Creek 4 (plus my wrist in the side mirror)
Dead Creek bridge - in which Jecca hung half out of the window while the car was moving to get a picture, and earned many strange looks from her parents
More Dead Creek
We went to an apple orchard. We already went apple picking, but since we were in the area...
Sign
Apple trees
Rows of trees
Pumpkins in the orchard...
Apples!
Branch with apples
Outside the orchard shop
Still outside the shop
Also, we stopped at a little farm stand and bought some raspberries.
Yum!
Most of the rest of this is just random scenery. Trees.
Camel's Hump
Adirondacks framed by trees
Overcast Adirondacks
Smaller plants
Tree and house
Scenery
Tree and barn
Bunch of trees
More trees
Sideswept tree - I think it's a nifty tree!
Reddish tree
Dirt road
Colorful
Trees and road
Trees, and the car's radio antenna
Yes. More trees.
Little tree and speed sign - I like this one a lot for some reason
omg tree
This tree is yellow.
Very nice tree - this image does it no justice, sadly
Elm
Tree, flag, cannon
I like this color
VINE ATTACK
Not a tree - fake deer
No leaves, but I like the shape
Tree by the road...
Red and orange tree
Trees and railroad tracks
Yellow!
More yellow
Same grove again...
And one last time.
Shameless pet photography.
And this one just looks weird. Both my mother and I blinked and drew back a bit trying to make sense of it, when I pulled it up on my computer.
Odd.
That is nowhere near all of them. I'm a bit camera-happy when I don't need to worry about changing film.
This afternoon, right as I was getting ready to walk out the door to work, she came over and said, entirely too excited about the whole thing, "JKR's outed Dumbledore!"
... Over dinner, it came up again, and we had to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining to my father that this meant the character, not the man who plays him in the movies.
Beyond that step into the unexpected, though, the day was a bit boring. I was prodded awake this morning by my parents, who were going out to drive around and look at the foliage. I needed to come! And bring my camera to take pictures with! It would only be an hour or two. Come on, please? It'll be fun! And bring the camera.
Okay, fine. I dragged myself up and stumbled into the car.
FIVE HOURS LATER we got home in time for me to eat a light lunch before going to work.
I'll probably upload some of the pictures I took later. A few turned out really well. (Most didn't, since despite my mother's insistence that I take pictures of nearly everything, she wasn't willing to slow down to allow me to do so.)
Edit:
Images added. No direct pictures, just a lot of links to them, if anyone wants to see. They aren't as nice as they should be, because it got cloudy shortly into the drive, so things just look duller than they should.
I'm going to toss in a few of the blurry ones. I just like the colors in these, even if the image itself isn't that great.
Blurry 1
Blurry 2
Blurry 3
Blurry 4
Blurry 5
Blurry 6
Blurry 7
More blurry
We drove past/through the Dead Creek (what an...optimistic name) waterfowl refuge.
Crane
Dead Creek 1
Dead Creek 2 (not our van)
Dead Creek 3
Dead Creek 4 (plus my wrist in the side mirror)
Dead Creek bridge - in which Jecca hung half out of the window while the car was moving to get a picture, and earned many strange looks from her parents
More Dead Creek
We went to an apple orchard. We already went apple picking, but since we were in the area...
Sign
Apple trees
Rows of trees
Pumpkins in the orchard...
Apples!
Branch with apples
Outside the orchard shop
Still outside the shop
Also, we stopped at a little farm stand and bought some raspberries.
Yum!
Most of the rest of this is just random scenery. Trees.
Camel's Hump
Adirondacks framed by trees
Overcast Adirondacks
Smaller plants
Tree and house
Scenery
Tree and barn
Bunch of trees
More trees
Sideswept tree - I think it's a nifty tree!
Reddish tree
Dirt road
Colorful
Trees and road
Trees, and the car's radio antenna
Yes. More trees.
Little tree and speed sign - I like this one a lot for some reason
omg tree
This tree is yellow.
Very nice tree - this image does it no justice, sadly
Elm
Tree, flag, cannon
I like this color
VINE ATTACK
Not a tree - fake deer
No leaves, but I like the shape
Tree by the road...
Red and orange tree
Trees and railroad tracks
Yellow!
More yellow
Same grove again...
And one last time.
Shameless pet photography.
And this one just looks weird. Both my mother and I blinked and drew back a bit trying to make sense of it, when I pulled it up on my computer.
Odd.
That is nowhere near all of them. I'm a bit camera-happy when I don't need to worry about changing film.