Miles Run in 2006

The college soccer game that I photographed today was supposed to start at 4 pm. It didn't. It was pushed back to 5 pm. With the time change that forced me to change my running plans for the evening. I really wanted to run outside while it was still daylight, but it didn't work out. After downloading, editing my pictures and making the contact sheets, I finally left work at 6:30 pm. By the time I got home, talked with my husband, changed clothes and stretched, it was almost 7 pm. It was getting dark and the sun was starting to go down. I ended up running 3 miles on my treadmill watching the Food Network and Alton Brown.


Total miles run up to August 30:
2004: 208
2005: 235.1
2006: 325.9

Big Brother drama

I watched the second half hour of Big Brother 7 after returning home from shooting a basketball game. I didn't see who Erika nominated for eviction, which happened to be George and Janelle. Janelle won the Power of Veto and everyone knew she would use it on herself to take herself off of the block. Since Erika is in an alliance with Chilltown, they decided to sway Erika's decision and convince her to put up Danielle, her original alliance in the house, for eviction.

When Danielle found out that she was going to be nominated for eviction she got angry at Erika. She said that Erika betrayed her. If Danielle does get evicted, she said she will not give Erika her vote to win the show.

Do these people understand that Big Brother is a game built on lies and betrayal? Houseguests trust too easily and get hurt when they are lied to.

Photo Credits: www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother7/

Alumni basketball scrimmage

Over the weekend, I played in an alumni basketball scrimmage. I was hoping to see people that I played with on the team, but no one showed up.

My sister Denise and I were 2 of 4 alumni to show up. It was sad. The current varsity coach gave us, the alumni, four current players so we could have a team. All four of the alumni started the first 10 minute scrimmage. I have ran over 320 miles this year, but I got really tired fast. I guess I should add speedwork to my running. We played man-to-man and that really wore me out. We had a couple of fast breaks that I actually kept up with and I ran back on defense. After five minutes, we would sub out to let some of the varsity girls play, while us old people took a rest in the bleachers.

In the scrimmage, I had two goals: make a 3-pointer and dive on the floor. I accomplished both of those. In the first scrimmage, a girl had a hand in my face and I shot and made a 3 over her. That was cool. Then a couple of periods later, I went after a loose ball and tried to beat my defender to it. I drove on the floor and the ball went off my fingertips out of bounds. The girl who was guarding me came up and asked if I was alright. I was fine. Now I just have a massive bruise on my left thigh. In the other 5 periods, I could have scored more points. The ball liked to roll off the rim on my left-handed layups. GRRR!!!! Very disappointing.

In all, we played six 10-minute periods. The alumni won 4 and lost 2. By the end of the scrimmage, all of us alumni were very tired. The parents of the varsity talked to us after the scrimmage. They said we should be sore the next day. My arms and shoulders were sore from shooting and they continue to hurt. My legs were fine, just a bit tired. I tried running on the treadmill Sunday, I couldn't make it past two miles. My goal for Sunday was to run three miles, but I don't think my legs could have made it.

The varsity coach said that next year he would hold the alumni scrimmage in early August. If it is held then we probably would have more people playing before they go off to college. If that's true, then we can really have an alumni game. Not a couple alumni with varsity players on one team. We worked with what we had and made the best of it.

Random things

I was contacted today by TransWestern Publishing (aka: the Yellowbook) about placing ads in the Yellowbook for my business Deloris Clark-Osborne Photography. The representative that called me said the deadline for the Ann Arbor phone book was today. I had to decide about my ad practically on the spot. I ended up buying ads in both books. I'm hoping those ads send some business.

Tonight is the 2006 season kickoff of high school football. I will be covering a game at Sand Creek. This is the 7th year that I have been photographing sports for the newspaper. Here's to another enjoyable football season.

Tomorrow morning I will be playing in an alumni basketball game at Sand Creek. The last alumni game was two years ago and it was fun. A bunch of alumni came back to scrimmage the current girls varsity basketball team. I hope the turnout for this year's game is good. It would be nice to see people that I played with on varsity come back.

Books read in 2006

The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
The American Way of Death Revisited, Jessica Mitford
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Portrait of Myself, Margaret Bourke-White
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, Donald H. Wolfe
Marilyn: The Last Take, Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Sarah Churchwell
Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, Charles Higham and Roy Moseley
Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan
The Hidden Hitler, Lothar Machtan
Auschwitz: A New History, Laurence Rees
Jack The Ripper: The Complete Casebook, Donald Rumbelow
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out, Steven A. Shaw
Lincoln's Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shenk
The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh
Sinatra: The Life, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans
Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, J. Randy Taraborrelli
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon, Kenny Moore
Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco and Six Intimate Friends, Judy Balaban Quine

Currently Reading: Grace and Power, Sally Bedell Smith
Up Next: Grace, I'll get the author's name later

Waiting

My husband and I decided eat at Fricker's in Adrian after seeing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. We pull into the parking lot , its full because it is a new restaurant and it was 25 cent wing night.

We walked in and my husband gave his name to the hostess. She wrote down the time, 7:12 pm. Every table is full. The waiting area benches are full. And more people were waiting outside. At 7:30 pm, the hostess calls our name and we are lead to our table. After getting seated a waitress came and got our drink and cheese stick order and the order of wings. Our drinks and cheese sticks come out within five minutes. We finished the cheese sticks, got refills on our drinks and wait.

Still waiting I got another refill of water. My husband and I thought that the wings would be out shortly. We were wrong. At 8 pm, still no wings. But the college guys across the room got about 50 wings delivered to their table. To pass the time, we watched the Tigers on the big screen TV behind the bar. Still watching the game at 8:15 pm and no wings in sight. Another 10 minutes go by, the waitress brings the table behind my husband their wings. So we knew our were coming out soon. A couple of minutes later, the waitress brings our wings to the table at 8:30 pm. Mike and I ate our 10 wings a piece. (I can't believe I ate 10 of them.) We paid our bill and walked out of Fricker's around 8:55 pm.

They wings were very good, worth the hour wait. Hopefully next time we go back it won't take an hour to get 20 wings.

Welcome back to pavement

Instead of running indoors on my treadmill Monday afternoon, I decided I would go outside. It was a nice day. A little bit of a breeze and 84 degrees. Granted I haven't run outside in 3 to 4 weeks because of the heat and humidity, I decided it was time to go back outside and run.

Halfway through my 3.5 mile run, my knees started to hurt. And they continued to hurt throughout the rest of the evening.

My legs are still sore today, but I will be back outside on the pavement Thursday.

My weekend

This past weekend was very busy. Here are the highlights:

Friday
- Photographed NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Qualifying Friday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Jeff Burton won the pole. Dale Earnhardt Jr's starting position for the GFS Marketplace 400 was 17th.
- Photographed the ARCA race that followed the Cup qualifying. Some guy who drove a Serta car won.

Saturday
- Woke up early Saturday morning to get ready to photograph the Cross Country Preview meet in Tecumseh. The rain was fantastic to shoot in. There is nothing like trying to keep an umbrella balanced on your shoulder while taking pictures. Later in the race, Russ (Onsted's XC assistant coach) held the umbrella for me while I was taking photos.
- Drove to Bedford, Mich. later that evening to photograph a Women's Professional Football League game. After getting what I needed I decided to sit in the bleachers to watch the rest of the game. I have never seen so many bugs. They were flying all over and were crawling on the bleachers. I'm glad I wore pants and had a jacket with a hood to keep them away.
- Called my husband while waiting for the WPFL game to start. He told me that Dale Earnhardt, Jr won the Busch Race at MIS. Probably would have been the only chance to see Junior win in person. In the words of X the Eliminator from Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law: "DAMN IT".
- On the drive back from Bedford, I was behind people who decided 45 mph was the speed limit for US 223. Needless to say, I passed them all and continued driving 62 mph.

Sunday
- Got out of bed early to finish housework before driving up to Michigan International Speedway. The dogs were disappointed that they had to stay outside while I finished the housework. They both gave me the sad faces when I locked them in the kitchen when I was leaving.
- Had a nasty media lunch at the track. The hot dogs were gross and coming apart even before I grabbed one for my plate. I think they were in the boiling water a little too long. After finishing my potato salad, coleslaw, a small piece of chicken and some of the nasty hot dog, Domino's Pizza employees brought small personal pepperoni pizza's for everyone. BOO!
- During driver introductions I was amazed that Dale Earnhardt, Jr was getting booed. He rarely gets booed.
- I enjoyed seeing Dale Jr lead the race. Too bad he had lugnut problems on his last pit stop, he could have competed with Matt Kenseth for the win.
- A fan crawled onto the media risers with all of the photographers in Victory Circle. He was forced to leave by MIS personnel. HA HA!
- Sitting in race traffic for 25 minutes. Most of it was spend trying to leave the infield parking lot.

So Happy!!

My husband installed the hard drive that failed on us today. Everything was recovered. The photos and documents that I thought I lost forever, I have them again. Now I'm in the middle of burning so many CDs. There is no way that I'm losing them again.

Next week, I will be posting Encore rehearsal and recital photos on my Deloris Clark-Osborne Photography instaproofs site. Photos can be purchased on this site. Also, you will be able to view everything that I shot those two nights.

A good day so far

Today has been good for me.

I got my paycheck at work. On the paycheck was my photo sales commission. Hey, it wasn't much, but at least I'm finally getting paid for it. Unlike my last paycheck, most of it went into the bank.

I got back my hard drive that the computer company in town said it couldn't fix. My co-workers friend recovered everything from the hard drive. Now I have to wait for my husband to install it.

I'm so happy. I got Photoshop today! I was going crazy without it. Along with the hard drive, I have to wait for my husband to install it. When it is installed, it will be nice to edit photos once again.

Now it is off to watch Project Runway that I taped from Wednesday night.

In Memory of Dad

John Wayne Clark

April 10, 1942 - August 15, 1998

ADRIAN - John Wayne Clark, 56, of Adrian, passed away Saturday, August 15, 1998, at Oaklawn Hospital in Marshall, Michigan.

He was born April 10, 1942, in Adrian, the son of Wayne and Eloise (Rathbun) Clark. After graduating from Sand Creek High School in 1960, he served in the National Guard. On February 24, 1968, John married Mary Teresa Hallett in Swanton, Ohio. She survives.

John was a life-long farmer and raised hogs. He was a member of the Lenawee County Farm Bureau and the ASC. He was very involved in the community, serving on the Sand Creek Board of Education for 16 years, including working on the High School Building Committee, and served on the Madison Township Board of Review. John was also a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Adrian.

Besides his wife, Mary, John is survived by his seven children, David, Deborah, Diane, Daniel, Deanna, Denise and Deloris. Also surviving are his mother, Eloise Clark, and a sister Jean (Don) Ward. Preceding John in death was his father Wayne, in 1971.

The Funeral Mass for John will be held Wednesday, August 19, 1998, at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church with Fr. James Lothamer, s. s., as celebrant. Burial will follow in Fairfield Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the Braun Everiss Wagley Funeral Home on Tuesday from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. with a prayer vigil at 7:30 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Sand Creek Community Schools or St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

Father, into your hands we commend our brother. We are confident that with all who have died in Christ, he will be raised to life on the Last Day and live with Christ forever. Thank you for all the blessings you gave him in this life to show your Fatherly Care for all of us and the fellowship which is ours with the Saints in Jesus Christ. Welcome our brother into Paradise and help us to comfort each other with the assurance of our faith until we all meet in Christ to be with You and our brother forever. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let the Perpetual Light shine upon him.

Lenawee County Fair Queen Contest photos

Over on my photo blog, DCO's Photo Gallery, I started to post pictures from the 2006 Lenawee County Queen's Contest. Today's post is of the winner, Jessica Adams. Tomorrow's post will be on First Runner-Up Melissa Beteau. I will continue to post pictures of all the remaining queen candidates.

Two long weeks

Friday, I worked a lot of hours. 14.5 hours to be exact. I worked the morning shift 4:30 am to noon. Then I had a assignment to shoot from 1:30 pm to 2 pm. Then worked the night shift from 5:30 pm to 12:30 am Friday morning. (I took an half hour dinner break.)

This morning I had to get up early, get ready and drive to Madison Township and shoot football mugs at 8:30 am. The football team didn't come out to the field until 8:45 am. If I didn't have the football mugs to shoot today, this would have been a full day off. But no such luck.

Tomorrow, which is Sunday, is the start of the Lenawee County Fair. It has been my job for the last 4 years to photograph the Queen's Contest. So I will continue with tradition and photograph the contest. Before the candidates take the stage, there will be a Lenawee County Fair Queen Reunion. Should be interesting. Some of the former queens will be doing talents on stage. I heard many are coming back.

Since I'm working tomorrow that will be a week straight of work. Next week won't be any different. Work Monday-Friday as usually and then I will be up at Michigan International Speedway for NASCAR race weekend which starts Friday afternoon.

I will be looking forward to August 26. Maybe I'll finally get a day off.

Random things

My husband and I enjoyed our VIP dinner Wednesday at the new Fricker's in Adrian. The food and service was excellent! For an appetizer, we ordered the wings. Those were some of the best wings I ever had. For dinner, Mike ordered the ribs and I had the A1 burger. dinner, we both had the dessert of the day: cheesecake with chocolate dressing. I would recommend Fricker's to everyone! Good food that isn't very expensive.

Good News! One of my co-workers has a friend that knows a lot about computers. After the computer place in town told my husband that they couldn't recover anything from our hard drive, we gave our hard drive to my co-worker and he mailed it to his friend to see what he could do with it. He didn't promise us anything, but he would see if he could recover any data or photos. Wednesday I received a call from my co-worker. He told me his friend recovered EVERYTHING from our hard drive. He is in the process of mailing it back to us. I'm so happy! I had photos on the hard drive that I didn't burn to CD's that I thought I lost forever. As soon as we get the hard drive back, I swear I'm going to be burning about 20 CD's of just photographs. I learned my lesson. Download photos to computer, immediately burn them to a CD.

I just bought my box for the upcoming Box Show at the LCVA Gallery. My theme for my box this year is destruction. I love to photograph abandoned buildings (not too many in Adrian), but I'm going to focus on one and feature some of my photographs on and in the box. Sand down the finish on the outside of the box and spray paint it. Entries are due August 16. I really have to get working on this.

If you're interested in the box show, here is some information:

Member’s 4th Annual Box Show and Auction

Exhibition: August 17 – September 23, 2006

Silent Auction: September 23, 2006

The Box Show and Auction is the LCVA’s only fund raising event of the year. Exhibiting members are given the task to creatively make art that takes the form of a box, embellishes a box, is contained within a box, is attached to a box, or depicts a box. The exhibition includes both functional boxes and nonfunctional boxes and all are available for purchase through the silent auction will be held on September 30th, 2006, 7 – 9 pm. Wine, cheese and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Public invited. This year, juror Peggy Grant, Art Director of Toledo's 20 North Gallery will present awards.

Gallery Address: 112 West Maumee

Adrian, MI 29221

Phone: 517-265-4403

VIP Dinner

This week in the mail, my husband received an invivation to attend an VIP dinner with a guest at the new Fricker's opening in Adrian. Fricker's is set to open its doors to the general public on Thursday. But since my husband is special*, we get to go there tonight and eat a good meal.

We ate at a Fricker's down in Toledo, Ohio about a month ago and enjoyed the food. I hope the Adrian Fricker's will be just as good. I'll let everyone how it is Thursday.


* My husband is special, meaning he is a city commissioner.

Photo Credit: www.dotoledo.org/gtcvb/images/restaurants/frickers_01.gif

Miles Run in 2006

After running 3 miles today on my treadmill, that put my total mileage so far this year at 302.9 miles. The next day I will run is Thursday. I think I will reach my New Year's Resolution goal of running 400 miles this year. Only 97.1 miles to go.

Total miles run up to August 8:
2004: 186.9
2005: 220.7
2006: 302.9

My new website

I started my own business, Deloris Clark-Osborne Photography. I offer affordable photo packages for engagements, weddings, families, children and all occasions.

I photograph events using a photojournalistic approach. As a working photojournalist for 7 years, I have a great skill of observation, working quickly and aniticipating the shot. I prefer to photograph people naturally, but will photograph traditional posed shots for those who prefer them. Let my years of photojournalism experience capture the special moments fo your day.

I work primarily in Southeast Michigan and Northwest Ohio, but I am available for travel upon request.

Check out my website. It is awesome. Thanks Emily!

Books read in 2006

When on vacation, I usually buy a book that will keep me entertained while my husband is still sleeping in the morning. During my trip to Chicago, I found the book Bowerman and the Men of Oregon at Borders and bought it. I have been looking for this book for a while and couldn't find it locally. I just finished it and I have to say it was a really great book. If you love track, you'll like the story of University of Oregon's legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
The American Way of Death Revisited, Jessica Mitford
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
The City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Portrait of Myself, Margaret Bourke-White
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, Donald H. Wolfe
Marilyn: The Last Take, Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Sarah Churchwell
Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, Charles Higham and Roy Moseley
Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan
The Hidden Hitler, Lothar Machtan
Auschwitz: A New History, Laurence Rees
Jack The Ripper: The Complete Casebook, Donald Rumbelow
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out, Steven A. Shaw
Lincoln's Melancholy, Joshua Wolf Shenk
The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh
Sinatra: The Life, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans
Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, J. Randy Taraborrelli
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon, Kenny Moore

Currently Reading: Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and Six Intimate Friends, Judy Balaban Quine
Up Next: Grace and Power, Sally Bedell Smith

The vacation

My husband and I returned Friday evening from our vacation in Chicago. Besides the two straight days of 100+ degree weather and the hour long delay to get on the Amtrack train to come home, we had a great time.

We shared many firsts on the trip. The first night we were in Chicago, my husband and I ate at Chipotle. It was very good and cheap! We also took a boat ride down the river, a bus tour, went to Sears Tower, the King Tut exhibit, went to Niketown four times, Navy Pier, ate at a number of great restuarants like the Cheesecake Factory, Pizzera Uno and one of the best steakhouses Chicago Chophouse.

I won't have Photoshop for a while yet. I will try to post photos of the trip over at DCO's Photo Gallery soon.

Today is the day

I still have to finish packing for Chicago and it is almost 6 a.m.! Just wanted to drop a note to say I'll return to blogging next week. Have a good week everyone!

Next stop: Chicago


Photo Credit: http://web.mit.edu/amitd/www/pics/chicago/lakeshore.jpg