Alpacas … we have a farm just a few kilometres from us, but we haven’t been able to see the alpacas up close. When we were travelling in Prince Edward Island, we stopped at an Alpaca farm – Green Gable Alpacas . Her website provides a lot of information about alpacas and their fiber. Janet, the […]
August 7, 2011 was the date I started this blog. I wasn’t sure about starting one and wondered if I could/would keep it up. I also wondered about what the purpose of my blog would be. I think I can express those thoughts a bit more now. I would like to have this blog: Reflect […]
My camera broke. This was not a nice feeling for me. The main dial no longer allows me to change my shutter or aperture. I was looking into getting it repaired, but my husband and I talked about it, and I’ve decided to get a new camera. In the meantime, I wanted to test the […]
Bleeding hearts have many names: Dicentra spectabilis, Lady’s Locket, Lady in a Boat, Valentine Heart, Dutchman’s Trousers, Dutchmen’s Breeches, Glory Bower, and Lady-in-a-Bath. I don’t know how many other names there might be, but I was surprised when I started looking.The sun was setting when I took these pictures, and was shining through the hedge behind these […]
How do people celebrate Easter? Just as Santa Claus draws away from the real reason for Christmas, we see the same thing happening at Easter with the Easter bunny and Easter eggs.Our church had a Good Friday Brunch yesterday. There were about 80 people there, and we had an uplifting message pointing to our Lord […]
I’ve wanted to try this for awhile – putting a water droplet into a glass, and since I’ve tried a bubble in other pictures, I combined the three of them. I used the tungsten White Balance because I wanted the blue colour. It took awhile to get this as the bubble didn’t always cooperate. Settings: […]