Lunar Eclipse

I caught the eclipse last night! It was pretty cool actually. I thought that shadow would just slowly cover the moon over, but the moon remained somewhat visible and was a neat brownish colour.

Watch that first step, it's a doozy!

I don't know about you, but I'm thinking that living on the middle floor of that house could be quite hazardous. Perhaps it took a fall from the top floor in order for someone to think, "Gee, perhaps we should put a railing in here." Obviously no one has fallen yet from the middle floor. And when they do, someone will say, "Who saw that coming? Hindsight is 20/20."

More than milk?

Saw this truck parked in my neighbourhood.

Home service eh... Hmm. Perhaps those jokes about the milkman being your biodad aren't so funny after all!

Wiley Coyote

Caught a few photos of this guy at my parent's house yesterday morning. And to think he almost got away without posing for me... How rude!

Ah yes, there it is... the money shot! Thanks lil' dude.

If I see that camera again, I'm taking it away...

Went to the Finger 11 / Sum 41 concert on Monday night... But after only taking a few shots of Finger 11, security was all over me like a fat kid on a timbit. Finger 11 was pretty damn good... I'd seen them a few years ago, and they didn't disappoint this time either. Strangely enough, I'd never seen Sum 41 play, even though I've been a fan for a long time now. They were tonnes of fun... but no photos for you!!! I can't understand why they don't allow pictures. Security acted like it was saving the world every time they took an amateur photographer down.

What was cool though, instead of Sum's regular guitar player they had the lead singer of Gob on the strings. Not sure why that made me happy :) They only played one Gob song though. Oh well.

Chasing Rainbows

I had to get off the phone with my sister yesterday in a hurry-- there was a wicked rainbow outside my window!!! By the time I grabbed my camera and went outside, it was gone. Then the sun peeked through again and there it was... SPLENDOUR. I love rainbows and I'm always taking photos of them. I'm not sure what it is about Edmonton, but I've never seen so many rainbows in my life. It has to do with the fact that the rain usually moves through in the evening and then clears out, as it clears out the sun creates a rainbow.

I like this photo a lot. The light caught this lady at just the right instant. Lucky. I have a photo from a few seconds later, she's in shadow and it doesn't work quite as well.

Now, back to work for me. Chasing rainbows... The storm is just starting to clear out, and I'm hoping Roy G. Biv shows up here by next spring!

Car shots

I'm always amazed at the quality of photos I can get from a car with my camera. On top of that, I'm stunned at how nice the photos look through a pathetically DIRTY windshield. The second picture was taken through the same window as the first one. Neat!

My feet are tired... But my mouth isn't!

About diet and exercise, my Dad often says: "You'll wear out your feet long before you'll wear your mouth out."

Lately I've been running to try to undo the damage done by hanging at my folks' house. A friend of mine asked how I could gain weight eating all those veggies from the garden. Well, there's LOTS of veggies, smothered in butter and salt. Plus there's fruit and I've been making syrup for ice cream and pies and crisps out of it! Yes, my feet are tired but my mouth is showing no signs of slowing down!!!

I often wonder about people who run. They say they love it. However, every time I go out running, I pay attention to the other runners as they pass me. They look anything but happy. In fact, most look like they're in grave pain. That doesn't look fun!!!!

Anyways, here are a few pix of where I've been running the last few days. It's a nice outting. Not too painful at all.

Raining

It's kind of dark and raining at my parents' house today. Interesting how sometimes the weather reflects what's going on in life. When my dad left the house early this morning, I had a chance to go out and get some water shots (no water on the last one, I just liked it). God I can spend an infinite amount of time taking photos, downloading, editing, uploading, posting... blah blah blah. Oh well. Enjoy. Guess I should actually do something else today, something I love to do more, like go and visit with my mom. :)

My Dad's Garden

Just got back from Calgary. Got lots of yummy veggies from my parents' garden. Here's hoping there are no spiders (see previous post: Spider infestation?) The folks looking out over one of the vegetable gardens.

They also have awesome flowers around the place. My Dad is a green thumb extraordinaire (and kinda nuts... planting thousands of flowers from seed or slips every year.) I kind of go a little crazy myself- taking photos. I love it.

Thunderstorms

The other night a thunderstorm rolled in and I caught a few photos. It was pretty neat. Then the rain came and eventually it settled down... Until about 2am. That's when I almost crapped my bed. I was woken up from a DEAD sleep by something that sounded like a huge bomb near my window. I literally jumped out of my skin when I heard that thunder, it was fricken LOUD. It boomed two more times and I jumped two more times. The only thing that would have been scarier is if it had actually been a bomb... or if I'd actually crapped my bed. Ewww.

A Spring Evening in Edmonton

A true story about the hazards of photography... and the deceptiveness of the final product...

The Killers Killed It!

So my idea for smuggling in the camera didn't work. It's just too darn bulky and the security guy was sooooo smart! I brought the decoy camera, which he noticed, but then he asked what was in the back compartment of my purse...

Uh oh.

No one's ever noticed the back compartment before! But luckily for me, at this show they just said no professional cameras and he let me bring it in! Yay! And he knew what a "professional" camera looks like, unlike security at that hockey game a while back. I only took a few photos, but they worked out very well :)

And the Killers killed. It was a great show.

No video up yet though (Dad, I know you'll be disappointed over that).

ps. If you're ever on a date and she loves live music, getting floor tickets is the way to go. She's going to think you seem young at heart, adventurous and brave, and you're going to get in a lot of Night at the Roxbury style body contact ;)

Sylvan Lake

Sylvan Lake is still frozen. Looks pretty neat right now.

Moon over the North Saskatchewan

I took this picture tonight on my walk home.

Actually, it's an overlay of two pictures I took tonight, one of the river and one of the moon.

I also took a cool one of the sun.

There was no playing around with that one, it was naturally pretty sweet.

No idea what's going on?

I stumbled on this photo today and posted it as my msn display picture. Jen looks hilarious and I figured it was too small for people to tell that I was uh, kinda drunk. But I guess it was more obvious than I thought...

DB says: wow .... not sure what to say about that pic
Michie says: haha, my friend Jen, there's not many pix where she looks normal... and you can't tell with it that small, but i look pretty wasted
DB says: oh I can tell
Michie says: you can?
DB says: very much so
Michie says: whatever dood
DB says: Look at you!!!! all pie eyed and that grin that you obviously had no idea what was going on... u look gunned .... she kinda looks like ... yeah ... no comment. lets just say ...... not one for the family album.

Oh well, I still love it. It's one of those that makes me chuckle a little every time I look at it.

Um yeah, this is another photo from that night. Nah, we weren't drinking AT ALL.

Ok who's the goofball in my beer shot? Hmm? Oh I wonder...

Ok I was feeling bad about Jen's pic and told her I'd put a nicer one up to counteract the effect of the "hideous" one above (as she called it)... So there it is.

Are ya happy now Jen???

The Brand New Toy

No no no, not THAT kind of toy you pervert! On Wednesday I got a new camera!!! A Canon Powershot S3 IS. Sah-weeeeeet!However, it was so fricken cold out on Thursday that I wasn't able to venture out to play. There's not much to photograph in my house. Hence this mess:

Not too exciting, I know. That pic of myself kills me. I look bonafide crazy! (Photographs do steal your soul after all!) Ok so I also managed a couple of outdoor pictures. At -24 degrees, these photos were snapped at lightning speed. You see, any exposed limb turns black, shrivels and falls off in mere seconds, so I had to muster up as much quick-twitch muscle stength as I could.

I did catch the sunset though... First on 6x zoom, then on 12x zoom. Not bad for a first outting. Hmm, maybe I should change my ways and actually read the instructions on this thing.



Thanks ma, I'm gonna love this camera until the day I break it!!!

Hotel Des Alpes

One of my favourite places on our trip was a gem we stumbled on, nestled on the side of a mountain, Hotel Des Alpes.


I could not BELIEVE the view from our room!!! AND we had a balcony too! I was in heaven.




Literally in heaven... In the morning, we were even higher than the clouds.


There was a small ski hill just 3km up the mountain on a narrow winding road with no guard rails and steep drop offs that had Mom pretty scared (ok, me too at times).

















On the way back down we saw some deer.

In retrospect the view was awesome, but the whole experience at the hotel was also impressive. It wasn't just the 8 good-looking Germans that rode in on their motorbikes and sat at the table next to us at dinner and breakfast either;) It was also the man who ran the place, I think his name was Leo? He was soooo nice to us! In the morning when we were checking out he said, "Vous êtes joli." I thought he was posing a question... Are you happy? and I told Mom that's what he'd asked. We responded, "Yes we are, VERY much so thanks."

It wasn't until later when I figured out that joli meant beautiful. Oops. YES. YES WE ARE. Hahaha. Good one.

I'm an idiot.