Confetti eggs are one of the most fun and best selling games at the fall festival at my kids’ school. The confetti eggs are regular raw eggs that are emptied, filled with confetti, and the hole is covered with tissue, and then painted. The kids buy the eggs and then break them over each others’…
I have been trying to get a good picture of a spider web for a while. When I was out for a morning walk, I ran into this web. It was not easy to capture. I had to go back to the house and get a step stool and a water squirt bottle in order…
I have taken some good pictures, but sometimes the background is too focused and distracts from the close-up of the subject matter. You can blur the background in photoshop, and I will walk you through the steps. I am using photoshop elements 7, but I’m sure that the steps would be similar in other programs….
Here are some more pictures from the photography class.
Here are my favorite pictures from the third day of my photography class. A fern that is unfurling. An ant on a flower. Another Banana Slug.
This kitchen table has been around the block a time or two. It started it’s life when my parents got married in the early 1960’s. My mom calls it Danish Modern. It originally had a dark stain on it, and it was a good useable table. When I got married in 1991, the table came…
Here is a picture of our new pet eating his dinner of baby mouse. It is so cool. I had no idea that you could buy the baby mice frozen. Such convenience.
Ok, I vowed that we would not be getting any more pets. I think that two dogs and two guinea pigs are plenty of work for the average family. I guess that I am now eating my words. We now have a new pet king snake. It is my favorite type of pet though in…
I work from home in a sense in that I am an Occupational Therapist that travels to people’s houses. I have my own toys and therapy equipment that I bring with me, so I need to keep all of my therapy stuff somewhere. Our office had been dismantled due to a flood, so I am…
I still don’t know whether it is best to use flash indoors or not. Here are two pictures that I took of the same thing. The first one I used flash and the second I did not. I think that I like the one with flash better. What do you think?
I have been thinking about these for weeks, since we last went to Disneyland. I am going to give away a little known secret of Disneyland, and I hope that I am not sorry later. There is a little hole in the wall ice cream stand that is off the beaten path and hardly ever…