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 # 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 # 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 #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 ~