As seen by Kristine

Today's guest photojournalist is my niece, Kristine. (Kristine KELLET, to be exact) She will be four this summer. My brother Chris and his family stopped overnight on their way to Milwaukee last weekend. While they were here, Kristine took lots of photos with my digital camera.

This is what the world looks like to a four-year-old. We gave our boys disposable cameras one vacation long ago. We got back pictures of the inside of the minnow bucket! Also lots of pictures of frogs and the knees of adults.









I gave Kristine a pink feather boa. She thought it would look nice on my head, and then wanted to take a picture. This is how we got started. Quite a "look" isn't it?











She took many pictures of the family photos on our walls. This is our wedding photo. She took pictures of Nate and Nick's school photos. She didn't want to take pictures of the actual guys, because she said, "Your brothers are too big and scary".








Kristine's mom, Nicole, and I enjoying the evening on the deck.













Kristine is a Daddy's girl and loves to take pictures of him.












Lucy had quite a photo session, including some "arty" shots of unidentified furry bits.













It was Friday, so we had pizza.













I really like this one, it would look good in a frame.













Seriously, I've seen worse art at galleries. At least you know what this is! We saw piece of art once that had actual live worms in it. It spun. Being science majors, Paul and I of course did not "get" the significance of the piece, but he didn't make it to please us.







I took this picture of Kristine's big brother, Sawyer, because he is such a cutie. He is also really smart (and my Godson!).


Our guests brought us a smoked whitefish from Morey's. It was delicious with crackers and it was so big I made a pate' type deal with it. Also yummy!


Try giving your kids a camera, it is fun to see the world through their eyes.









Smoked Fish Pate'

1/2 pound smoked fish, such as whitefish, trout, mackerel or cod (carp? eelpout?)
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
6-8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
juice of 1/2 a lemon
3 tablespoons (or more) fresh chives, finely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper to taste (1/2 tsp?) Don't skimp.

Remove any bones or skin from the fish and flake it with a fork. Beat the butter and cream cheese together in a mixer and then mix in the rest of the ingredients. Eat this with crackers or thin slices of toasted bread. Probably it wouldn't be horrible in an omelet, either. Just don't try to keep it too long. Eat it up!