Leon Turnbull Photography

I have been a bit absent recently. We surprised our kids last weekend by taking them to Legoland in southern California. We figured it would be the one and only chance we’d have to take them there before our oldest grew out of his interest in legos. Jadon has been begging us to go there for the past year. Both the kids really loved it, and had so much fun. It is quite a neat place to go. The lego structures they have built there are quite amazing, I wish I could build stuff like that. Jadon is much better at that kind of thing then his old man. There are much less crowds there too, than at Disneyland. That is something I really like. But I hate driving down south and especially through LA. There is always a huge bottleneck trying to drive through there. So on the way back, I had a great idea. We should start driving at 4AM to beat the traffic through LA (Legoland is about an hour or so south of LA). My wife totally revolted at that idea, however. We left at 8AM instead. But amazingly, there were no slowdowns driving through LA. It was truly a miracle. My wife said she was praying, specifically she said she prayed for “light traffic so my husband would not be a bear”. ha ha. Well, it sure worked.

This is another photo from my recent outing up to Grouse Lake with my friend, Rob. We arrived at the lake in time to enjoy the sun rising above the mountains. I love trying to get this sunstar effect in my photos every so often, it is pretty cool. To get this effect, I stopped my aperture down to f/20. The ice on the lake was pretty neat as well. But not thick enough to walk on or skate on. I didn’t try. But Rob did find some chunks of ice to throw across the lake. He’s just a kid at heart.