Archive for April, 2008:
Camera
Kirsten asked what kind of camera I have.
I have a Konica Minolta DiMage Z1
It’s several years old now but it’s held up well. I did some research before buying it and the good reviews combined with the salesman’s recommendation made it a good choice for an SLR type digital right around $300.
There are better cameras out there with bigger mega pixels (this one is 3.2) but don’t let that fool you, this camera can do way more than I understand (the link above gives more info), but I’m learning. . . and it’s fun.
There was ONE thing I didn’t like about it and that was the lens cap. It broke fairly quickly and was useless. So I made a new one which works great and I am quite happy with.
But I’ll tell you about that another time. . .
Subscribe to the comments for this postThat’s my boy!
(far right —my oldest)
Sycamore Township resident in ‘The Odd Couple’
I can’t tell you how badly we all wish we could be there this weekend!!
April’s Shower of Photos - Day 3
It’s raining here today. April showers and all that. I’m looking forward to photographing those May flowers. 
I’m feeling a bit under the weather (no pun intended) as I seem to have a touch of the bug. I don’t really feel up to taking photos today but I have a few old (as in previously shot) pics that I want to share anyway.
I took this picture on the plane ride to Florida in Feb.
That’s my memory card. It’s a standard SD memory card and is about 1″ x 1.5″.
I took the picture to show how TINY those little pretzels have become!
There were 7 in the bag. I’m serious.
That’s all we got to eat. I was starving. OK not really.
But here’s some fun for you. If that’s my memory card and I didn’t have an extra one with me, and my camera has to have it to take pictures, how did I take this picture? Remember, we were flying at the time so I couldn’t use my phone camera either. Any guesses?
That’s it for now –I have to run. More photos later.
April’s Shower of Photos - Day 2
Front porches.
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Color:
No color:
(mine is the second porch —the one with the bench.)
April’s Shower of photos
y favorite sailor, Jennifer, has started a month long photograph project and I’m joinging in!
I love to take pictures but I haven’t been doing enough of it lately.
My goal is simple —finding beauty in my everyday surroundings.
Here’s my first installment.
This is our gate and the side of our house. It’s quite old so I thought the sepia was a good fit.
Speaking of connections. . .
as Lissa has been doing —doesn’t this look like a fun book by Fr. Rutler (see his quote in the previous post)!
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Coincidentally: Unserious Reflections on Trivial Connections
Amen to that!
I have been a fan of Fr. George Rutler for years. I absolutely love this quote of his that was forwarded to me today (thanks Julie!):
I’d encourage your youngest one to abandon kindergarten altogether. Almost everything I learned was learned outside the
classroom, and school itself interrupted my education. Moreover, school locks you in with your peers. That is a mistake. One’s social circle should never include one’s equals. From my earliest years I found children uninteresting and always preferred the company of adults. This was an advantage, because I got to know lots of folks who are dead now whom I never would have known if I had waited until I was an adult. - So I have a collective memory - and oral tradition - that goes back to the eighteenth century, having spoken with people who knew people who knew people who knew people who lived then. - The only real university is the universe and a city its microcosm. That is why an expression like “New York University” is foolish. New York City is the university….Instead of school, children should spend some hours each day in hotel lobbies talking to the guests. They should spend time in restaurant kitchens and shops and garages of all kinds, learning from people who actually make the world work….One day spent roaming through a real classical church building would be the equivalent of one academic term in any of our schools, and a little time spent inconspicuously in a police station would be more informative than all the hours wasted on bogus social sciences. Formal lessons would only be required for accuracy in spelling and proficiency in public speaking, for which the public speakers in our culture are not models, and in exchange for performing some menial services a child could learn the violin, harp, and piano from musicians in one of the better cocktail lounges, or from performers in the public subways….So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then the grim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity.
Originally posted by Peter Robinson via The Corner at National Review Online.
Amen to that Father!
