Landscapes – Page 10 – M. Sullivan Photography

I took a short detour on my drive into work this morning. After dropping the kids off at school, I was determined to get a shot of the spectacular colors from the morning sky. It didn’t quite happen. Now that the days are getting longer and the sun is rising earlier, I’m not able to get out the door before the best part of the sunrise has faded. However, I was able to get some interesting shots along the Lakewalk in Canal Park once the sun had peeked over the horizon.

I guess I can’t complain that with each day there is more sunlight. After weeks of it being dark when I leave for work and dark when I come home, it would be nice to have a little extra daylight. Some warmer temperatures wouldn’t hurt either. A quick look at my weather app says that it is currently -4 degrees with a windchill making it feel like -29 degrees. Spring can’t come soon enough for me.

With highs near 50 yesterday, today’s weather was a bit of a shock to us all. I think we were hoping to ease back into winter slowly, but instead we have snow, wind gusts over 30 mph and wind chills in the negative digits. Hard to believe I took Daphne out for a walk last night in capri length athletic pants and a light jacket. The beautiful sunrises also came to an end this morning when the cloudy skies took over. I did catch these photos before work yesterday morning. It was calm on Lake Superior which led to some great reflections on the water.

The kids have been busy with a number of things in recent weeks including Sebastian’s invention project. He was given materials before Christmas break to document and create an invention to display at his school. He had to keep track of his time, the process, trial and error, cost along with documenting the problem and solution that his invention was designed for. Sebastian’s idea was to create a product that could keep meal time tidier. Silverware creates a mess if you lay it on the table. If you put it on your plate, it can slide off and make messes on the table, floor or your clothes. Sebastian designed two utensil holders that clip onto either side of your plate to hold your messy silverware. He used small Tupperware containers, magnets and clips and came up with a very cool product. He displayed his “CleanWare” invention and a poster board at school yesterday. Here’s a snapshot of his display.

When he wasn’t busy with his invention, Sebastian has been busy with basketball. He plays for an area youth rec basketball league. His division is made up of 5th and 6th graders, although his team has only 5th graders. The height advantage of the other teams makes it a bit challenging – as shown in the picture below.

He has a great coach and an awesome group of kids on his team. It’s been fun to see the progress they have made since the season began in the fall.

Sophia finished up her last swimming lesson before Christmas and has now jumped into gymnastics. She would have liked to do both gymnastics and swimming, but it would’ve been a bit crazy to have two sports and religion class during the week along with homework. I don’t have any pictures to share of her gymnastics class, but did snap a few pictures of her new hat last night. We found the hat during a quick trip to Walgreen’s during the holiday break. A big display of several of these plush hats were positioned right inside the door. Of course once Sophia had it on her head, it was hard to say no. I did actually say no..at first. By the end of our mini shopping spree, Sebastian had found a cool sock monkey and Sophia had an adorable Angry Bird hat.