Drifting through life

  So far the only differences I can see between my old Fuji and my new Canon is the colours are truer and the focus is different.  I used the zoom to take this photo of yellow roses across the yard while standing on my front porch. You will notice the background is out of focus, while with the old Fuji, it would have been in focus.  This is the "auto" setting, I've yet to play around with any other.  The Canon is of similar size and shape to the Fuji, but feels different in my hands, it will take a bit of getting used to, also the buttons are in different places.

 Long, long ago, in days of yore...Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Drop in to Elephant's Child and have a look. only a couple of photos today and they aren't mine you all remember Supergirl's moon photo? here it is again in case you forgot how great it looks and here is a day time photo of the moon: pretty cool, right? you can still see the craters 😀 My own new camera arrives sometime this coming week, but I'll be waiting for warmer nights before I stand outside looking at the moon.

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Lissa and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1. belong 2. miserable 3. memory 4. quiver 5. ghost and/or: 1. woven 2. shiver 3. maybe 4. sunshine 5. beneath Here is my story: I stood uncertainly in the gloomy shop, searching the shelves for something I didn’t know yet.  A voice from behind said, “it’s on the second shelf from the top, right beneath the handwoven dreamcatcher.”  I spotted it right away, even as my own voice replied, “but it doesn’t belong there.”  “It knows,” said the voice from behind and I felt a sh

 She took a photo of the moon. YOU CAN SEE THE CRATERS! That's the kind of zoom I want. I'm shopping for a new camera tomorrow.

 $^^Y**R%EWWRI(&&^%$%**##!!!!!!! (new blogger) Notice there is no picture here? See above^ (grump grump) The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Lissa and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 01. light 02. voice 03. lock 04. hunt 05. laugh  06. wild 07. simple 08. evanescent  09. vulnerable 10. frigid here is my story: I'd been warned to never turn my back on her, that her moments of sanity were ever more evanescent , though she would "behave" if your eyes were constantly upon her. I had turned away so briefly, to place a cup in the sink,

Last night I opened the tree box, set the tree on a stool, then went to bed. I couldn't be bothered with decorating it. (There's that procrastination again.) While I was sleeping the monkeys got up to a little monkey mischief, (yes, I have stuffed toys, I keep them for little visitors to play with and technically they're not all monkeys, I know, just humor me ok?) George and Jerome climbed into the tree and began attaching tinsel and baubles. Hugo and Harry pulled stuff out of the crate to hand up to them. Harvey put himself in charge of the silver baubles when he saw that they'd broken one of the red ones. The "babies" played with Santa's sleigh and the lolly train. Luckily it wasn't yet filled with lollies. Hector gave a reindeer a ride. Hank Jr. commandeered the sleigh with his mate Not Rudolph. Sarah was the engine driver. This is the engine. The two cars behind are filled with small sweet treats for peo

(In December 2010) (Harvey Banana)  What's going on?  What are you guys doing in this box?  (Hugo) We're moving to a new home. Wanna come? (Harvey Banana) Of course! Move over, let me in. (I keep these boys around for small visitors to play with).

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.  If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words/prompts are supplied by  Lissa and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: two photos Here is my story: Margaret walked along the city street, packages under one arm, the other hand holding aloft an umbrella against the rain. Looking into the shops as she passed, wondering what else she could buy. In just one week, she would be off to Liverpool, to see the cousin she had never met, Judith and her children, all five of them. FIVE! "How on earth does cousin Judith manage?" she wondered. Margaret, an only child, also w

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Lissa and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1: If you feel like screaming, be my guest  2: There is something different about you Here is my story:  She gave me the stink-eye as I smiled vaguely and hummed under my breath.  "There is something different about you,"  she said, as I continued with the tasks she had set me. As always, she had me running around doing everything that was on the list.  A list that hadn't even existed until a former colleague and I had managed to fit a few ext

my daughter K is doing an early shift at work, a very early shift, and on her way to the bus she noticed the full moon and sent me this photo from her phone: Full moon, taken at 4am, Monday August 3rd 2020 I don't envy her the early start, I did my share of 4am walks to get to work, but I do envy the photo. I have never been able to get a decent full moon photo.