Scattered Thoughts . . .

I n mid-August, we went to another one of Kenzie's figure skating lessons and practice sessions.  I really enjoy going to these sessions because, when the rink is empty such as it is during these sessions, I have access to the ice from one of the team benches rather than from behind hockey-puck-marred glass in the stands.  When I'm on one of the team benches, I have no marred glass in my way...  no safety nets in my way...  I can even open the door in the boards to get down low to the ice rather than shooting down on Kenzie.  Shooting photos at ice events is far more difficult because of all of these aforementioned obstacles when needing to sit in the stands.   I always shoot a lot of photos during these practice sessions so, as usual, I came home from this practice session with far more photos than I need.  I sometimes shoot video during these sessions and I did on this day too but, for some reason (really multiple reasons), I'm never really happy with the video files.  

The blog has taken a backseat to my health in recent months.  I haven't had the energy to write at all.  As a result, I am way behind in keeping this blog even slightly up to date!   I shot a bunch of photos of Kenzie the other day (over 2000 photos!) so I'll start with a new blog entry about her.   We spent some time the other day being entertained by Kenzie at her last figure skating lesson for this season.  We had watched her a few weeks ago and I really need to mention that she has improved significantly in the past few weeks.  Actually, she has improved so much in just three short weeks that it came as a bit of a pleasant shock when we watched her the other day.  Both Gee and I were quite impressed.   Kenzie had some alone time on the ice before her lesson.  The ice was clean and fresh and there were only a handful of people here at the rink during her warm-up time doing laps around the rink.  It was obvious that she was working on one thing at a time as she did her d