A Piece of Americana

Our world has had more painful moments to contend with lately.  And there is a lot more that we generally don’t know about because it hasn’t come to the national stage yet but just as painful.  My family and I have been on vacation for the last two weeks though and we still made the best of it.  There was no comfort in reading about Minnesota, Louisiana, and Dallas.  But even here in Florida, we heard about the attempted child abduction back in Victorville.  We learned about the 3 murders, including the 9-year-old boy, in San Bernardino too.  We live, work and go to school in the high desert.  Those things (and more I’m sure that did not hit the national stage) happened while we were gone but we’re heading back today.  We are in Orlando: Pulse Night Club.  We are from the Inland Empire: San Bernardino mass shooting.  Just the same, we earned a vacation and a respite from all of this pain.  This image is a parting shot of our last outing yesterday – the crowd is just random folks.  We barely made it back to the car before the downpour.  We had a lot of fun these last two weeks but the heat was a challenge.  It’s very humid here.  Truth be told, we had a good vacation but it’s time to go home.

Halloween 2010 in Fontana, CA

Wow, look at the time.  I should be going to bed but I wanted to get this done so a little sleep deprivation will need to occur.  Ok, we were living in Fontana at this time, with my aunt.  She belongs to a big church out there called Abundant Living or something like that.  They have this thing called “trunk or treat”.  First time I had heard of such a thing.  I need to crawl out from under my rock more often.  This event is a big deal.  They had gourmet food trucks out there, a midway and live performances – just a lot going on.  The important thing was that my pirates (my kids) had fun.

Eight photos – aperture, shutter speed and ISO set by the camera because I was shooting in program mode.  As usual at night, I set the ISO at 1600.  And I shot this all with my kit lens, EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, on my Canon EOS Rebel XS.  Yeah!  I am getting my post in!  I will shoot for another one tomorrow too.