
Rana Arnold, of State College, director of the Centre County 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Raisers, watches over the group's meeting in the Ag Arena on Penn State's University Park campus Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, as her guide dog in training sits at her feet. Arnold, who is blind, works with families who raise puppies until they're 16 months of age, after which the dogs are sent for further training with the Seeing Eye foundation.

Ashley Hartle, 16, of Bellefonte, leads the puppy raisers in an exercise that involves walking in a circle around the upper area of the Ag Arena at Penn State's University Park campus Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. Those in the Centre County 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Raisers group raise the dogs until they are 16 months of age, after which they are sent back to Seeing Eye for further training.

Bernie Schaeffer, of State College, claps after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 while watching the broadcast from the Centre County Democrats office, 224 S. Allen St.

Members of The Daily Collegian, 123 S. Burrowes St., watch Barack Obama give his first speech as president during the inauguration ceremonies on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009.
I also wanted to include photos with people, so I took some photos of my dad, as he was the only one willing to have his pictures taken.

James Lackey puts his socks on as he gets ready for the day.

James pets the family dog, Lexi, who begs him for attention by placing a paw on his thigh.


James works on his laptop. He spends way too much time on the computer, his wife and daugher say.

These photos show how Cali, my 2-year-old cat, spends her day — mostly napping, playing and eating.

Cali plays with her feather toy as part of her daily routine.

Cali eats her food in the morning

Cali stretches as she wakes up from her nap.

Cali prepares to strike a toy mouse.

Cali takes one of her daily naps.
This semester I’ve been asked to keep a blog for photo assignments for Comm 469. From here on out, all photos posted will be from those assignments.