The weather was not conducive to shooting yesterday.  Cold, windy, cloudy, and flurries.  That being said I did go down to the river to see if anything was available.  The only thing I could find were these Ring Billed Gulls who had taken refuge at the 16th street basin.

I could find no wildlife at the river.  In fact I didn’t even see any traffic on the water at all.  It was just a nasty day (weather wise) for shooting or doing anything outside.

Maybe I amped up the sky a little but this is what I saw on the way to the river.  The good news is that I received a text from Angie wondering if I wanted to have lunch with her and Joshua.

That was an easy question.  So we met at Champs around noon.  A great place to eat in Dubuque.  Good food, good service, perhaps a little pricey.

Josh wasn’t all that friendly when we first got together, that is until I took this image and then he lit up and said, “Push button, push button.”  So I had to let him push the flash button 4 times.  I’m sure people in the restaurant wondered what was going on.

After that we played and colored on the menu.  Well the only thing we had to color with was a blue ink pen but he was having fun with it.

So after a good lunch with stimulating conversation and brushing up on my coloring skills I said good-bye to Angie and Josh and went out again looking for something to shoot.

I couldn’t find anything that interested me.  Not many people out walking around.  I saw several barns but nothing I hadn’t already shot this year.  So I decided to go home and take a nap.  🙂

Enjoy your Tuesday.  Stay warm, thanks for stopping by and be careful.