Bridget and I went to the Bastille Day celebration at Eastern State Penitentiary.  It was a lot of fun to be a part of.

This fun re-enactment is influenced more by Monty Python than the French Revolution. Dozens of French revolutionaries, armed with muskets and cannon, and singing “La Marseillaise,” stormed the grim walls of “the Bastille” (Eastern State Penitentiary, which has an historic connection to the French Bastille).

They captured Marie Antoinette (played by Terry McNally, owner of London Grill) and, ignoring her mocking cries of “Let them eat Tastykake!” dragged her to a real, functioning guillotine, built for the occasion as 2,000 Tastykakes were flung from the prison’s towers.

Now you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen 2,000 Tastykakes being flung over a castle-like prison into a crowd of people!

Here are some of the pictures of “Marie” and the Tastykakes:

We took a tour of inside of the historic prison as well afterward:

John Thomas Schreiber was christened at St. Cyril of Jerusalem church this father’s day.  Here are some of the pictures that I got:

You can see all of the pictures here.

Bridget, her mom and I just got back from our vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We stayed in Corolla, just above Duck, which was very nice. We all enjoyed the beaches, wildlife and lighthouses, and of course I got plenty of pictures. You can see them all here.

Wildlife, including some Egrets:

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Bridget had her big 20 week ultrasound today. As far the doctor can tell the baby is “physical defect free”. We saw 10 little fingers and 10 little toes. The baby was very active because Bridget had her glucose tolerance test right before the ultrasound, so the baby was all sugared up. The baby is measuring on or a little ahead of schedule, and weights a whole 13 ounces. Unfortunately the pictures aren’t fantastic, but trust us that in person he/she looks very cute!

I went to the Philadelphia Zoo on Sunday with Mike Hagan and the Delaware County Photography Group. The weather was predicted to be thunderstorms all day, but luckily it was a mix of mostly clouds with some sun for most of the day. We didn’t get hit with any rain until about 1:30, when we were on the last few animals for the day anyway.

I got plenty of pictures (actually I took over 800 in all, but just posted the best 77 of those that I liked the most). Here are some of the highlights. You can see all of the best pictures here.

I just wanted to thank everyone for coming over this weekend to help open our deck for the season, and also to celebrate my birthday.  I know that Bridget and I both had a wonderful time and enjoyed having our family and freinds over, and I hope everyone that was able to join us had a good time too.

I got plenty of pictures:

You can see all of the pictures here.

Well I was a little bit upset last week because all of the baby bunnies left their bunny hole from under the deck.  I knew that it was going to happen sooner or later… that they would grow too big to stay in that little hole, and would all go out and find new places of their own.  But I was concerned about them and just wanted to make sure they are ok.

Last night I saw a little chipmunk in the yard, and mom said it sometimes hides in a piece of 4″ wide PVC pipe we have under the deck… it’s an extra piece that is used for drainage, but isn’t hooked up to anything.  Well, I went looking for the chipmunk in there last night, and was suprised to see one of my bunnies in there!  And it was about 3 times as big as before, so it is doing very well, growing nicely and eating on its own.

This morning I looked in there again, and there were 2 bunnies.  I was able to get some pictures of the one before I put them back.

I got a real up close and personal look at Mommy bunny today. She was in the yard this afternoon when I got home from work and took the dogs out. She immediately made a break for it and went outside of the fence so the doggies couldn’t get to here (they wanted to chase her around for fun).

But after I took the dogs back in I went back outside and was watching her eat… have to make some more milk for the baby bun buns. She seemed to not be too scared of me, letting me get to 5-8 feet away. I am sure she somehow knew I wouldn’t hurt her and was looking after the babies too.

I got plenty of great pictures of her:

Well I had to go and check on the baby bunnies again this morning.  There are 4 of them in there, and all were doing very well.  Mom must have stopped by during the night to feed them, and she covered them up with some more fur.  She also ate some of the lettuce that we left out for her, so she would have plenty of milk for her babies.

I got some more cute pictures of them in the daylight:

You can see all of the pictures here.