Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
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This weeks theme is shadows
I took this photo last weekend at the art show. I’m not sure if that’s mine or my husbands shadow on the metal lady, but a shadow it is!
This was another spectacular piece of metal artwork at the outdoor art exhibition. This piece was made from an old oil tank! I give it bonus points for recycling!
Sorry I’m behind on this post. We had guests drop in on us yesterday and they turned into weekend house guests!
I think I’m going to cook a nice dinner tonight. I feel like we haven’t been eating well over the last week or so.
I’ve been so tired and not feeling well that I just haven’t felt like cooking so we’ve made really easy stuff. Well … Chris has, and uhm, if I guy can’t cook well I’m pretty sure you know the types of things he’ll make – grilled cheese, soup, macaroni … we’ve even had some take out food too. Yup, we’ve been eating bad. I don’t really like those foods when I’m feeling well and I hate them when I’m sick.
Tonight I think I’ll pull out the nice cookware and maybe make a nice chicken dinner with lots of veggies or a veggie packed salad.
Actually I think I’ll go out into the garden later and see if I can find some tomatoes. Chris and I had a tiny tom or cherry tomato – one each, the other day. Those were the first tomatoes from the garden and the taste of that single one stayed with me for at least an hour. It was so good. Hopefully there’s a few more ripe ones out there. The large tomatoes aren’t ready yet unfortunately.
What are you going to cook tonight? Something tasty or something fast?
How does that song go? Rain drops on Roses, whiskers on kittens … these are a few of my favorite things ..
Well here’s the first item on that list:
Last week, I believe it was Tuesday, it rained all day. I looked out the window and the flowers in my garden were just looking magical. I’d been aching to try out my new camera so I took it out with me and before I knew it I’d taken over 100 photos!
I think this photo of a William Baffin turned out fairly well for someone who’s an armature with a digital SLR camera.
When I go through the photos I took that day I can really see how I progressed with my new camera. The first photos looked very ordinary, but within just a few moments the camera felt comfortable in my hand and I began experimenting with a few of the settings.
I didn’t do much experimenting as there was a very light rain falling and my camera soon had a fine mist covering it. Back indoors I went. I did manage to take quite a few photos in 15 or 20 minutes though.
Someone asked recently in the comment area what kind of camera I have. Well I have three now, but the one that I’ve been talking about lately is my new Canon EOS 30D digital SLR camera. I’m still very green with this camera and it’s many features so I can’t really tell anyone much about it. It did have a number of good ratings though and I’m quite pleased with it so far. I think I’ve taken about 400 pictures to date and the majority have turned out well.
Isn’t it nice when you receive cards at Christmas time, your birthday or special holidays? Some people even take the time to write a family letter during the holiday season, updating the rest of the family about all the major events that have occurred over the last year.
What’s unfortunate about this is that the occasions that I’ve listed above are about the only times that Chris or I ever receive cards or letters anymore.
My parents were winter Texans and while I missed them while they were away I always appreciated and looked forward to the weekly letters my mother would write. Sure, they had a set routine so each letter had a similar theme, but there was always some little story that made each letter unique.
I miss those letters.
I’m assuming that you don’t get as many letters as you used to either. Do you miss getting letters?
Well, if you want to give someone the feeling of getting a real letter again, but like the convenience of using your computer you could use the free service provided by http://www.esnailer.com. Just type out a letter, fill out the name and address of the person you are sending the letter to and then submit your finished letter to Esnailer.com.
Esnailer will print out your letter, place it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and mail it off to your friend or relative for you. All free of charge.
Sure, you might be saying to yourself “well I could do that myself”, but honestly, when was the last time that you did?
At least with Esnailer half the work is done by them and it’s free. Have you taken a look at the price of stamps these days? Believe me, this is a bargain!
Give it a try.
I’ve been getting a little frustrated with the comments that have been coming into our sites lately.
Don’t get me wrong. I love getting comments as much as the next person, but since I’ve got so many blogs it’s really easy to spot commenting patterns and dare I say it? Comment abuse.
I won’t rehash how I feel about this here since I just wrote a post about Comment Spam and Comment abuse over on one of my other blogs – The Web Files.
I hope that you’ll go and read the post and tell me what you’ve been experiencing, especially if you are a do follow blogger.
Over on WebStyle I wrote another post about blogging. Well blogs and their lack of navigation.
Considering that I run the do follow blogroll I spend a lot of time going over sites trying to find comments in order to see if they follow or don’t follow. Lately I’ve been discovering a lot of sites with very few comments in recent posts and I’ve had to search, in some cases, the whole site in order to find a comment to verify a sites do followness.
This doesn’t take much time if a site is easy to navigate but the sites that don’t have next page or older posts navigation links take up too much of my time. Go read some of my blog navigation suggestions if you think your blog might be one of the ones I’m talking about.
What are your blogging pet peeves?