He need "Head-On"

About 2 1/2 hours to do this. Had a couple stumbles, but a friend helped me figure out a couple issues - thanks, JC of Texas! It's not 100% finished, but for my first try at this sort of thing, I'm quite pleased.

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FIRE FIRE FIRE!

Not as bad as few months ago though. Someone was cooking and things got a little out of hand. I took the opportunity to shoot a few pictures. None came out as I hoped, but it was still good practice.



In other news. Apollo is dubbed THE DESTROYER OF ALL TOYS

This is a squeaky rubber ball called the "Evil Cuz".
Apollo promptly tore the poor Cuz' (Cuz's?) feet off.
Although this time, he left the horns on. Last time I gave him this toy, he nibbled them off.
THE DESTROYER OF ALL TOYS hard at work.

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Weekend

My work passed out free tickets to the Washington International Horse Show, and I took 3, intending to go 3 nights. Unfortunately, I had a bad headache for a couple days and couldn't stand to do much beyond walk Apollo after work. I did make it to the show Saturday night, however.

There, I discovered that I really need to get better, faster lens. I spent the whole evening fiddling with the camera's settings, trying to get a clear shot. I did manage to get a few, almost decent pictures, but they're still not satisfactory.

Then, coming home from the show, I was getting in my car at the metro station when I noticed a few fire trucks racing in the direction of my apartment. Naturally, I thought nothing of it. When I arrived at my apartment, the first thing I noticed were the fire trucks. And all my neighbors standing outside.

I park the car in the lot, hop out, and find the nearest person that I recognized. "What happened?" "Fire," She shrugs.

"What!?"

I made my way through the crowd very quickly, and was about to try sneak past the cops and firemen to get Apollo when they gave the all-clear. If they hadn't...should I have gone in? I rationalized it this way: The apartment building looked intact -- no raging infernos. The firemen were not using their hoses on the building.

That begs the question: Would I have gone in, if there were noticable flames? Hmm...Probably, unless I knew positively that I couldn't make it up 7 floors. Fortunately, I didn't have to test that.

Anyway, here are the pictures from the horseshow!

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