Christmas Day 2007

I've often thought that the calendar should not be based on a religious event like the year 2007. What about all the people in the world that aren't Christians? Put yourself in their shoes. How would you feel if the calendar was based on the birth of Budha or some other figure? It would be unsettling to say the least.

So here we are in an unsettled world yearning for peace and freedom.

My picture today is the furled flower hope for a future.
This photo though not taken today is recent. It's also my first
offering to the flickr group 1 Flower 4 Freedom
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1flower4freedom/pool/

Darkness and Light

In the darkness there is light.

project 365 day 2

Cathy & I took the girls and went to Costco today in the Lazy Daze. We strapped Terra and AmityAnn's stroller onto the rear ladder and had a good old time.
Saw this clean Harley and used the nifty fifty lens on the Rebel to capture my shot for the day. Here is is.

project 365 1 of 365

Hopefully I'll be able to post a picture a day to help me
not only improve my photography but also remember the year.
The pancakes and bacon were delicious.

Rainbow

It wasn't a tough call as they brought us to it, the birds did, by getting wilder every day all summer taking over the living room. Finally we couldn't take it any more and I clipped their flight feathers. It's been several weeks now and I just trimmed them a second time as they were starting to fly again.

I'm attempting to tame them and it's a long slow process. I got them to sit on a perch ok and now I'm working on getting them to perch on my finger which is considerably more difficult.

Here is a picture of Rainbow taken recently. He was the noisyest of the birds.

Santa Cruz, CA fall tree

This beautiful fall tree is what I can only imagine New England must look like. Here the fall trees are hit and miss as most of them turn yellow then brown skipping the brilliant red coloring but this tree did itself proud. It was downtown near the library that we found it, Cathy & I. I took this shot from the car, with a Canon Digital Rebel and HDR'd it on the computer to bring out the colors.

Selling Olympus Evolt E-300

Having too many cameras and not enough lenses has prompted me to sell one of my cameras so I've decided to sell the Olympus. It's currently listed on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250183712659&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=015

and I have a gallery of pictures on flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/safoocat/1850574716/in/set-72157602892337442/