From Jean's Garden - (click on image for bigger view)

I stood back from this beauty. With 100 mm lens, and some cropping, you get the idea!

From Jean's Garden - more beauty

"Rose of Sharon"

Update on My Camera History

Camera History (Updated)

Camera History (Updated)

Along the Trail

 

From Jean's Garden

"Rose of Sharon"

From Jean's Garden

Probably not enough to make wine ...

A Daily Visitor

Usually this little bunny visits in the late afternoon -- avoiding Jean's garden and plants

New Camera

OK, so I have a new camera. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200.
You'll have to check the reviews and descriptions elsewhere.

I had thought about getting camera with a larger sensor, a DSLR, or a mirrorless (MILC), micro four thirds, but anything decent is around $1000 or more.

Here's the complete history of my cameras

Along the Trail

Notice the little guy's super antenna
(click on the image)

Along the Trail

 

Along the Trail

 

From Jean's Garden -- A Clivia (do click on the image for a larger and better view)

 

This particular plant (Clivia), has a long history. The family legend has it that mom DeVries brought it from the Netherlands to Canada. The clump has been divided many times, and that's how Jean got a plant.  That plant was sold at a fund raising plant sale at Westside Fellowship, but Jean divided it again before it was sold and that's how this particular plant has stayed with her and now in her garden.

From Jean's Garden

 

From Jean's Garden

Will there be enough to make some wine?

From Jean's Garden



Heavy Blessings

"a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven" (Deut 11:11)

 

"First Signs" Revisited & Rolled Back

First Signs have been muted by a dump of snow today

First Signs

Sunday Afternoon, March 10, 2013, 15C - Wonderful!

 

Not Long Ago, in Tillsonburg

End of the Line

 

A Walk at Night in Tillsonburg

 

"Dream Home Series"

 

The house is just a block or two from where we live in Tillsonburg. Took these photos on a short walk the day after the "big" snow storm. What make this house especially appealing to me, apart from its architecture, is that it was the Manse (parsonage) in 1890 of the Minister of the Wesleyan Methodist church which amalgamated with two other denominations to become the United Church of Canada in 1925.

Today, it's still called "The Manse" but functions as a restaurant - casual fine dining, http://www.manserestaurant.com/index.html
Haven't been inside yet, but I think one day we may have lunch there.
 

New Camera

I've added a new camera to my collection.  The goal was to find a camera that could do it all, yet fit easily in my pocket, and cost less than my last camera.

Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS20K
 
There are complaints about "noise" in the photos, but I can deal with it.  It's a fabulous camera in all other respects.

So I suppose you'll be expecting to see some photos here! OK, they're coming.

In the meantime, you might review an updated History of my cameras to date (Feb 2013)
 

Change and Decay In All Around I See

Letchworth, NY 2007

"Dream Home Series"

Late afternoon, after grabbing a couple of geocaches, this scene caught my eye. The home certainly qualifies for the "Dream Home Series" though it is quite different from the others.

"What A Mess!"

 "End of the Line."

This morning, Jean and I found this little creek at the bottom of a very deep gulley behind our house.  When I first saw this old, wrecked and abandoned shopping cart, I said, "Huh, end of the Line." What went through my mind at the time was sadness at the mess people make and leave behind. Then I had thoughts about how this scene was a symbol of one outcome of consumerism; covet, get, consume, use/wreck/yesterday/dissatisfied/no longer in style, dump it/throw it out, what's next?

A few hours later, when I reviewed the photos of the cart, I saw in this scene, a symbol of the outcome of so many lives today. Racing about, desperate for joy, love, acknowledgment ... going about from one place, experience, job, person, marriage, to the next -- shopping for life, hungry for something deep and lovely, but never quite getting it, or getting something that's close but nothing seems to satisfy.Yet the yearning for it, and the hope of getting it, drives one even more, convinced that this time I'll find it, this time I'll finally grab it, like the ass following a carrot, or as one person of old wrote, it's "a chasing after the wind" (Eccl. 2:11). End of the line, indeed.  Let that not be your life. There is a much, much better way.

"Dream Home Series"

 

"Dream Home Series"

Dream Home Series - Norway