Boys at the Canal

The Savannah River is 1.5 miles down a broad sidewalk from my mom's house. The Headgates there are the beginning of an old canal. I've been running on the levee that divides the river from the canal since we moved to Augusta, 12 years ago. It's still one of my favorite places to run in the world. (Also on the list of favorites would have to be downtown Paris, around the mountaintop that Cortona (Italy) sits on and the farmlands all around Schweinfurt, despite the steaming mounds of composted animal waste you have to pass.)
Yesterday I went for a run down there while Mom took the boys on a walk. Afterwards I tried to take some pictures of the boys exploring. I think I need to glue some googly eyes on my camera, though. The boys are so used to me having the camera in front of my face they refuse to look at me if I have that thing up. I think Joshua looked up maybe 4 times total, which is why I have so few photos of him in general, compared with Caleb. Being a photographer and mom is great, but it doesn't make for good, traditional, smiley portraits.