Window at the entrance to SuCasa, where truly my house is your house.
It's a busy winter day at the popular Mexican restaurant.
Evening at Stoney Point Fashion Mall, one of the upscale malls in the Richmond area.
Shoppers walk through one of the entrances to the mall.
Stone horses outside P.F. Chang's restaurant.
One more picture of Harper McLean.
Jenine at it again, kissing her father.
Left to right: Nick Layman, Albuquerque, N.M., Elizabeth Lemon, Asheville, N.C., and Marc Kawanishi, San Antonio, Texas, monitor judging at the 60th annual Southern Short Course for News Photography. The SSC was held Feb. 5-8 in Charlotte, N.C. and is the longest running photojournalism conference in the country. Kawanishi is the current CEO for the conference.
Janet Sutton, Teachey, N.C., tapes sessions of the conference and comments from participants.
Billy Weeks, director of photography at the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Free Press does portfolio reviews during the conference.
Ashlie White, Raleigh, N.C., tries to avoid cameras at a surprise celebration of her birthday. James Gregg, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, immediate left, Billy Weeks Chattanooga (Tenn.) Free Press, immediately behind Gregg, and Swayne Hall, Associated Press, New York, far left, bear witness to the event.
Light plays off buildings in downtown Charlotte.
This is not my friend, Gary Fong, but another Gary Fong who manufactures strobe diffusers which are on display at the conference and is a wedding photographer in California.
Ross Taylor, staff photographer for The Hartford (N.H.) Courant, lifts the bidding at the annual Southern Conference print auction.
A young girl enjoys her lunch at Razzoo's Restaurant outside Charlotte.
Roberta, left, and Joyce chat during lunch at the Daily Grind in Short Pump.
The elephant and calf carving given to Cambridge church by Christ's Academy now has a display case. The church supports 160 orphans from violence in Eastern Africa cared for by the school by funding their meals each month. Photos of Christ's Academy can be see on this blog in the October postings.
We had teaser snow last night along Copperas Creek — only a fraction of an inch which lay only on leaves, grasses and other elevated surfaces, like our birdhouse. The ground was too warm for it to stick. More snow is in the offering tonight. Many hope for a major winter storm.
Interior decorations at the Kona Grill — a new Pacific Rim theme restaurant with excellent cuisine in Short Pump.
Shawn, left, and Kenny await their baptism at Cambridge church this morning.
Hunter was the third young man to be baptized today.
Win Davis, right, pastor for youth, with Shawn in the baptismal pool. Davis baptized all three during the morning worship service. 
Members of the congregation congratulate Hunter, center, Kenny, far right, and Shawn, near right, after the service.
We almost lost our dog Sadie, center, this evening. During the Super Bowl she went into our backyard. When she didn't return for an extended time, I went looking for her. She had gotten into our recycling. When I found her with her head in cereal box, its a plastic liner tightly around her head. She was collapsed on the ground, unable to move and breathing heavily. Shawn, left, Ferris and Alison comfort Sadie after her ordeal.
It has been a while since I photographed Jenine. Today she greets us for Saturday morning breakfast at the Daily Grind.
Ten-month-old Jordan makes the rounds of the tables with her mother Saturday morning at the Daily Grind.
Dorrie Steinberg hosted a dinner party at her home north of Richmond. The painting above the mantel is by her husband Paul, one of the artists who exhibit at the Daily Grind.
Paul and Dorrie set up pictures and video of the village in Russia their adopted children come from. The have adopted three siblings, a boy and two girls.
Allison Short, a Christian singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C., performs in a Friday night concert at The Daily Grind.
Shiloh, right, listens to Allison Short in a house packed for Short's concert.
There has been a fire in our fireplace along Copperas Creek nearly every evening during a spat of cold winter weather.
