365 # 162

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
~ Robert Orben ~

This blog is taking a vacation. I’ll be back in two weeks.
Provence is waiting for me. I’ll be back with loads of pictures to update this blog!

365 # 161

Date: 2010/07/13:58
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 38.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.
~ Oscar Ameringer ~

365 # 160

Date: 2010/06/11:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 83.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

"Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder."
~ John Mc Leod ~

365 # 159

Date: 2010/06/8 9:24
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
~ Toni Morrison ~

365 # 158

Date: 2010/06/7 13:37
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin ~

365 # 157

 

Date: 2010/06/5 12:05
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 100
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix
Flash Used: no
Exposure: portrait mode
White balance: auto

 

Everyone smiles in the same language. 
~ Author Unknown ~

365 #156

Date: 2010/06/5 11:28
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White balance: flash

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

~ Stacia Tauscher ~

365 # 155

 

Date: 2010/06/4 18:32
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

 

 

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern;
it will come out a rose by and by. 
Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently
and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. 
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

365 # 154

Date: 2010/06/3 14:06
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 14.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~ Peter De Vries ~

365 # 153

Date: 2010/06/2 15:32
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me,
who could ask for more?
~ Bev Adams ~

365 # 152

Date: 2010/06/1 16:49
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 30.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

“The water is the same on both sides of the boat”
~ Finnish proverb ~

365 # 151

Date: 2010/05/31 8:34
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith ~

365 # 150

 

Date: 2010/05/30 13:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/40 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 30.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

~ Marcus Aurelius ~

365 # 149

Date: 2010/05/29 18:48
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 16.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment
which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words.
Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

365 # 148

Date: 2010/05/28 17:19
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 16.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 44.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

"Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made."
-Robert N. Rose

365 #147

Date: 2010/05/27 10:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~

365 # 146

Date: 2010/05/26 18:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
~ John Barrymore ~

365 # 145

 

Date: 2010/05/25 10:21
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 50.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

 

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. 
~ Andre Maurois ~

( today is our 19th wedding anniversary)

365 #144

 

Date: 2010/05/24 14:06
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 59.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

 

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
~ Ken Kesey ~

365 # 143

Date: 2010/05/23 19:25
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/200 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 59.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

"Cooking is an art and patience a virtue...
Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need.
There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table.
With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love."
~ Keith Floyd, A Feast of Floyd ~

365 # 142

Date: 2010/05/22 17:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out.
In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
~ Robert Brault ~

365 # 141

Date: 2010/05/21 17:52
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

365 #140

Date: 2010/05/20 9:08
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking"
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr ~

365 # 139

Date: 2010/05/19 12:47
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

 

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. 
~ Gertrude Jekyll ~

365 # 138

 

Date: 2010/05/18 9:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 11.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 83.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority

 

 

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
~ William M. Thackeray ~

365 # 137

Date: 2010/05/17 10:54
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.
~ Michael Pollan ~

365 # 136

Date: 2010/05/16 19:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program

"Dine, v: to eat a good dinner in good company, and eat it slow.
In dining, as distinguished from mere feeding,
the palate and stomach never ask the hand,
'What are you giving us?'"
~ Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914) ~

365 # 135

Date: 2010/05/15 12:45
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 14.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith ~

365 # 134

Date: 2010/05/14 11:11
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

The art of mothering is to teach
the art of living to children.

~ Elaine Heffner

365 # 133

Date: 2010/05/13 15:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 8.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~ Terri Guillemets ~

365 # 132

Date: 2010/05/12 10:09
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/40 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ Elwyn Brooks White ~

365 # 131

 

Date: 2010/05/11 14:59
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

 

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. 
~ Frank Howard Clark ~

365 # 130

Date: 2010/05/10 11:47
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.
~ Jessi Lane Adams ~

365 #129

Date: 2010/05/09 11:29
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~ George Cooper ~

365 #128

Date: 2010/05/08 16:02
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

 

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.  It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.  ~ Jean Giraudoux ~

365 # 127

Date: 2010/05/07 13:22
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

“The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician . Or watch your food - just watch it, don’t eat it.”
~ Edward Koch ~ former mayor of New York City

365 # 126

Date: 2010/05/05 11:41
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: yes
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin ~

365 # 125

Date: 2010/05/05 17:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix
Flash Used: yes
Exposure: macro modus
White Balance: Auto

"Once a bear has been loved by a human being, its expression is forever marked."
~ Jama Kim Rattigan ~

365 #124

 

Date: 2010/05/04 17:21
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: Aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

There are always two people in every picture:  the photographer and the viewer. 
~ Ansel Adams ~

365 #123

Date: 2010/05/03 10:04
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: Program
White Balance: flash

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.

~ Gerald De Nerval ~

365 #122

Date: 2010/05/02 12:43
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: Program
White Balance: flash

Life is like a landscape.
You live in the midst of it
but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
~ Charles Lindbergh ~

365 #121

 

Date: 2010/05/01 15:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 56.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

 

 

The best number for a dinner party is two — myself and a dam’ good head waiter.
~ Nubar Gulbenkian ~

365 #120

Date: 2010/04/30 13:47
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

“ The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
~ Dolly Parton ~

365 #119

Date: 2010/04/29 11:49
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix
Flash Used: yes
Exposure: Portrait mode
White Balance: flash

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

~Walt Streightiff ~

365 #118

Date: 2010/04/28 07:50
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom,
maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Terri Guillemets ~

365 #117

Date: 2010/04/27 12:43
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
~ Joseph Campbell ~

365 #116

Date: 2010/04/26 11:53
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~Robert Louis Stevenson ~

365 #115

Date: 2010/04/25 13:52
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/400 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~ Victor Hugo ~

365 #114

Date: 2010/04/24 18:05
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/5000 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 53.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking
if God had not made them a pleasure
as well as a necessity.
~ Voltaire ~

365 #113

Date: 2010/04/23 11:39
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~ Hans Christian Anderson ~