Macro Monday

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At the beginning of last month my computer and external hard drive crashed big time. I lost most of the 25.000 pictures stored on the hard drive. We tryed a restore and retrieve and did manage to get some of the photos back, but most were gone. 

Since then, my Brother, Brian gave me his desktop computer, saying he was going to be getting another one that worked for games. My Hubby spent the past couple of weeks setting it up for me and installing my Photoshop back. 

Today was the first time to sit down and work on it!! So nice! 

It is is much faster than my last computer, lightning fast compared to it. I had taken portrait shots of my four clients at work before Christmas and I worked on those photos! 

So happy to have my toys back!! Its like Christmas all over again! 

Like finding a string of pearls in an Oyster shell. The world is my pearl!!

Project 52 - Made with Love - Week 2



When we were kids growing up in Victoria, our Grandmother used to live about a mile away from us. It was close enough that we were able to go over if we wanted on our own, or other times when we went over to her house with my Mother, her daughter.

One of the snacks my Grandma used to make for the kids was Rolled Bread slices with Sugar and Butter fillings. She used to make them into little rolls which we used to dip into our Hot Cocoa. The only place I  ever ate them was at her house, and to me they ooze Grandma Love.

Made With Love!

The best bread to make these is White Wonder bread nowadays. Back in my Grandma's day it was made with homemade white bread. You cut of the crusts all around and use a rolling pin to flatten out the bread. Spread a good layer of Butter from edge to edge and sprinkle a liberal dose of white Sugar over the butter. You can also sprinkle Cinnamon Sugar over top of the butter. Don't use margarine, that would be just wrong! Carefully roll up the bread jellyroll style and press edges carefully together to seal. You can cut them in pinwheels or leave them in long pieces. Better to dip them into your Hot Cocoa and use them to drown marshmallows!

The old book that this plate of Bread Rolls is sitting on was my Grandmother's Diary. I am so happy to have this little piece of my grandmother. It is a priceless gift to me. I can read in her own writing what she was doing on the day I was born, on the day my siblings were born. Her day to day life. I can see in my mind's eye her going about the same chores and tasks she writes about.

And I can make a snack of Hot Cocoa and Bread rolls just like she used to make for us while I read her lovely words.

There are a lot of things that can remind us of past loved ones, food being just one of them. Our memories keep our loved with us now. I can make a cup of Cocoa and a Bread Roll and be right there in Grandma's kitchen, sitting at the puzzle table enjoying  snacks made of love.

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Harbour Boats

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Here is a series of photos of a small boat coming in from cruising on the Fraser River  into the Marina outside of Mission. The Marina is at the base of the railroad trestle that goes from one side of the river to the other.

I really liked the way the passage of the boat in the water caused the trestle reflections on the surfaces of the water to distort.

The long narrow reflections in the very back are the trees on the other side of the river.

The thick dark X's in the water are the supports from the Trestle.

I thought the swirls the boat made through the reflections were pretty cool!

It was a beautiful blue sky day, just in the later afternoon so getting a bit cool when these photos were taken.

The waters were very calm and smooth like glass, the only disturbance made by the boat.

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Darcy at My3boybarians has started a new Photo Meme called Project 52, one picture a week for the year. I think I can do that! I know I would never make the one picture a day memes, too busy for that!

This weeks theme is Resolution.

My hubby and I have been talking lately about Simplifying our lives. I really think people should move at least once every 7 years, and if not then should look at what has been accumulated, physically and emotionally and see where it can be simplified.

As soon as I took this photo I knew it was the right one for my first week.

There are lots of things I have to do each and every day and for that I have to be in the "box" and on track, race there and get the job done.

But lately I have been feeling like a lot of the things I like to do or want to do has really gone by the wayside because the things I have to do end up taking  more than enough of my time. It tires me out.

So we have resolved to simplify our lives where we can, and free up more time to get out of the box, and do the things we love to do.

One of the things I need is Space. There is not much room inside this box, I need to spread my wings and breathe a little bigger. Its all going to be a process, starting this year.

Wordless Wednesday

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!

It is the last day of the year and tomorrow we ring in a new year. A clean slate. New possibilities, new experiences, new hopes and dreams. I am not one to make any New Year's Resolutions as I only seem to break them soon after trying to start them. Better to just make any changes as they come along. 

Do you make Resolutions?

I wish everyone a Wonderful and Fulfilling New Year, full of all your hopes, dreams and aspirations, good health and happiness!

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Holiday Bokeh Party!



Outdoor Light Bokeh.