BALUT!!!!!

Well, aren't you glad I decided to share this wonderful picture with you!!! I know I haven't posted anything in a while; I have been busy and I think I am a "spurty" blogger. I do so much work on my computer, that sometimes it just feels like more work to sit down and post something.

But I am here now to tell you a little bit about one of the Philippines favorite food! It is a duck egg that has been allowed to grow for about 14 days (I am really not sure on the time line.) and then boiled. To be honest, not all Filipinos like them - I think it is an acquired taste. I took a bite out of one, but the feathers really got to me and I spit it out and did not go any further. We buy them for our teams that come over to see who is really a true cultural hero - or, you could put another word in there also.

Picture of the Day

This is my boy, Percy, who as you can tell, has about had it with the picture taking! Can't you just see it in his eyes, "Mom, if you take ONE more picture...." This is a picture I have taken for my photo class - trying to get indoor pictures without using the flash by setting my f.stop and aperature opening. At least I wasn't blinding the poor cat with the flash! Not good yet, but it is fun working on it.

Picture Post

No, this is not a picture that I have taken, it is a picture from the Scottish Moors! I talked to my friend Belinda the Blogger and she told me how to save pics from the internet!! So, come on, let's go to the Moors!

British Isles, Anyone???

I was going to put a beautiful picture of Ireland or Scotland here, but I don't know how to save them from the internet in picture form so that I can upload them - help me Belinda, help me!! Anyway, I have been desiring to go to the British Isles for some time now - was supposed to go back in 2006, but it fell through. So, I am planning on going in the spring of 2009 and wondered if any of the blogging crew wanted to go also. I thought it would be fun to get a group of girls to go. I really want to spend time more in the countryside and small towns then I do in museums and the big city. I am more of a "looking for the Loch Ness monster" type than traipsing through museums type! Anyway, would like to go for about two weeks in the spring of 2009. What say you? (Does that sound British?) I already have one yea from my sister Carolyn. I just want to go relax, be pampered (B&B type) and soak in the Lord's glorious, beautiful creation

Photo Class

Yesterday I went to my first photography class. I have been interested in photography for a long time, taking lots of pictures, but they have all been done on "auto!" Above is one of my first pictures taken with me actually in control of the camera. I was in my "artsy-fartsy" mode! My instructor liked it, his critque was that the left side of it was too bright - said I needed another aperature opening. Maybe by the time this course is over I will know what that means! I have a digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera with many buttons that I have just ignored up until now. After learning the basics I am hoping to get lots of tips on taking wildlife pictures which are definitely my favorite. Anybody want to go on safari??

Lynn's Challenge -The Wakulla River

I was already out sitting in my canoe fly-casting for bass as the sun started to rise. There was a mist rising from the river that seemed to hang in the air like a gossamer cloud. Through it I could see the beautiful variations of pink and rose of the rising sun. As my canoe glided gently with the current, I could hear the “plop, plop” of wary turtles falling off their logs as I approached. I slowly passed by a great heron intent on his own hunting efforts. I sighed, knowing my days on this beautiful Florida river were numbered as I was soon to start a new journey thousands of miles away. I wondered what beauty the Lord would surround me with on that side of His creation?

The challenge: Describe sitting in a small boat out on the water, without mentioning the following words: water, blue, green, rocky, wavy, hot, cold, or fish.