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On the Sidelines
December 8th, 2011 | 
Author: I took some picture of the action off the field, too. Here are a few:
Coach Wesley talking with Matthew.
Coach Deville.
Stephen and Nathan discover their keeper twinship.
Coach William.
Parents make great fans.
Parents, again.
And, again.
Keeping the stats.
Samuel in the sun.
Reggie goofing off between games.
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Soccer Photos III
We’re still working through the soccer photos from the tournament last weekend. This time Richard processed the images.
Austin.
Stephen looking ahead to the next pass.
Samuel turning the corner.
Again.
Stephen surveying the field, again.
Samuel going down.
Reggie.
Samuel.
Austin.
Austin.
More Murrah Soccer Photographs
Today I am posting a few more action photos of the Murrah High School soccer teams.
Samuel is a defender who gets lots of good touches.
Ellison putting a good effort into a shot on goal.
Here’s Jonathan tracking down the ball.
Destenee starting a good run.
It ended with the goalie.
Another shot by Destenee.
Snail Hunting, Soccer Photographs
Update: I’ll be at the Mississippi Reading Association annual conference on Tuesday, speaking about Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator and Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature, and contributing to a session on making the most of school visits.
The weather warmed up this weekend. It was beautiful for soccer on Saturday and perfect for snail hunting on Sunday. I have a wolfsnail right now that I’m keeping for some video and school visits so I need to keep it fed. I spent about 20 minutes pulling weeds and dead impatiens from my butterfly garden and I found about 25 garden snails. After I washed the two snail containers with rainwater from my rain barrel, I fed the wolfsnail. It ate a garden snail and a slug. Yum! I wish I had had time for video, but we were also cooking meals for the week.
We took about 840 photographs during three soccer games on Saturday. I went through carefully today and flagged 115. It will take some time to get all those processed, but I am posting a few of my favorites today.
This is Zach in the midst of a shot.
Jayda in a warm-up boot.
Austin and a defender in step, with Judson behind.
Emily setting up a shot.
Mississippi Arts Hour Appearance
I will be on the Mississippi Arts Hour this weekend, talking with host Diane Williams about my writing, photography, and teaching.
The show, which is a joint production of the Mississippi Arts Commission and Mississippi Public Broadcasting, will air on Sunday at 3 p.m. on Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Think Radio, 91.3 FM.
(It will also air on the digital station, MPB’s Music Radio, on Saturday at 11 a.m.)
If you miss the show on the radio, it will be available here next week.
Back to Sports Photography. Tough.
My two older sons play soccer for Murrah High School. The Mustangs started the season last week with a Jamboree against other teams in Jackson. Then, it was Murrah v. Lanier on Tuesday, Murrah v. Provine on Thursday, and Murrah v. Magee on Saturday. Big week. Here are the shots (taken by Richard and me) I thought worth sharing. (BTW, the girls are 3-0. The boys are 2-0-1.) Anyone else who is taking photographs, especially of the girls, please share.
If you click on a photo, you can see it a little larger.
a photo during the Jamboree
These next few are from the Murrah v. Lanier game on Tuesday night. Murrah won.
Paul A. taking a shot.
Reginald preparing for a shot.
Ethan.
Ethan and Jonathon running down the ball.
Phillip N. taking a shot.
Graeme hanging in on defense.
The next batch are from Murrah v. Magee on Saturday. It was a relief for the photographers to have daylight, but the game ended in a tie. 0-0.
Stephen with a goal kick
Other Stephen drawing the goalie out during a strong attack.
Ellison C. dribbling.
Phillip N. under challenge.
Austin B. shadowing.
Paul A. making a move.
Paul A trying to turn the corner. Or, make a good cross.
Austin B. breaking through a double-team.
Phillip N. taking the shot that almost went in. Next time!
Austin B. on the ball, again.
Another almost score by Phllip N.
Jesse Gates Edible Forest October Work Day
On this sunny day, it was only Loy and me at the Jesse Gates Edible Forest at Wells Church. Lots of lettuce, herbs, and greens are growing! I brought home a huge bunch of lettuce for salads and two peppers.
The cabbages were beginning to head.
Loy checking the information tag for the cabbage.
This lettuce started from seed. It is showing out!
This is a purple top turnip. See the tiny bit of purple.
Mesclun Mix. In a shadier spot, not growing as quickly.
We put down newspapers, wet them, and put pine straw and leaf matter on top.
Loy moving pine straw into place.
Wetting it all down.
Forest lettuce with tomatoes, onions, peppers.
Painting Photographs
I’ve been wanting to do some more playing with Photoshop for a while. And, this flower inspired me to try again. I found this tutorial, again, and used it to nice effect.
You can see the original photograph in the previous post.
Let me know what you think of these. Do you like the originals or the “painted” versions?
Jesse Gates Edible Forest After Fall Planting
Three weeks ago, a group of volunteers participated in a fall work day at the Jesse Gates Edible Forest at Wells Church. Richard and I got over there yesterday to photograph the new plantings. Some plants started as seeds and others were seedlings. We saw broccoli, cabbage, greens, onions, and lettuce. I’ve also got some photographs of eggplant, peppers, and asparagus that are still growing from the spring planting.
Fibonacci Folding Book App Available in Android Marketplace
The Fibonacci Folding Book Project app is now available in Google’s Android Market. The app in Apple’s App Store has been downloaded by people in a handful of countries. It is very exciting to have our content available for tablets. I’d love to hear from app users about the experience.
Richard has put buttons on the homepage of my website that link directly to the appropriate page in the two App outlets. Click here to see.