Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Dear Kitty. Some blog!
Dear Kitty. Some Blog has so graciously nominated this blog for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Thank you for this unexpected sentiment. I am truly thankful that you went out of your way to nominate my blog. The rules of this award are: Thank and link back to the...
Spring is Here!
Ahhh, the smell of sweet grass growing. The beginning of colourful flowers emerging from the earth and filling their sweet nectar throughout the air. The sap starting to move through the tree trunks and in turn the blossoms starting to form and open on the fruit...
You can too!!!
There is many techniques that can be learned in Photoshop and a person just has to search for the right instructional videos to learn them. Today's post is about the technique called the fake tilt-shift. There is a lens called a tilt-shift lens and it can take a...
Bring or Take?
As you know I was recently in Tasmania. We were going on an excursion and I made the comment, “I will bring my camera with me." I was told that was the wrong word to use and the proper word was ‘take’. I should have said, “I will take my camera with me.” This...
You haven’t seen nothin’ yet!
A few things happened to spur this blog post. I saw on Facebook that a friend of my daughter's made a comment about how high school was so... long ago. Now my daughter and her friend are only 25 years old. Wasn't it just yesterday they were in high school? You are...
Elephants, in Tasmania you say??
The decision was made to make a trip north from Hobart to Binalong Bay. We will rent a house for 2 days and enjoy what the area has to offer. Then the comment "And of course we will stop at Mt Elephant and get the famous pancakes". Woe stop right there. You mean we...
Fires in Australia
We traveled to Port Arthur the most south eastern part of Tasmania on the Tasman Peninsula. On the way we went through the scene of devastating “bush” fires that raced through the town of Dunalley in early January. It was quite a moving experience to see house...
Trip to the Cinema
The other night I went to this wonderful theatre in Hobart, Tasmania. Did I say I am visiting friends in Tasmania? Yes I am and these friends are the ones that enlightened me to this great movie theatre. The people who own this theater have fixed it up to be quite...
Holy Cow Is It 2013 Already???
At this time of the year people usually reflect on the year before. Things that should have been done and things that did happen. Is there a reason to have regrets? Maybe that is what drives us to make change. At this time I would hate to break the tradition so I do...
Road ghosts?
Another phenomenon up here in cold country is the wind blowing snow across the road. It looks like the vapor you see from dry ice. It is very eerie looking as a person drives down the road. As it floats across the road it hides any black ice that may be on the road...
Welcome to the First Blog Post
As I write my first blog post I have in the back of my mind the snow fall warning of today. The thermometer says -10C but it really feels like -17C. I want to go out shooting around the neighbourhood with all the snow coming down and the lovely frost on all the trees....