Photostitch

Today as I was relaxing around the house, I took a few photos of the back garden and stitched them all together.

See the results below. 

Pat Leaves

Today was Pats last day with us. She took off for O’Hare this afternoon. She was obviously sad to leave us and we were sad that she was leaving. We also know that she was looking forward to getting home to see Dave again and back to her home and into her own routines. She was extremely helpful to us all and me in particular when Lynne was traveling.

When Pat left we literally slumped around the house. Lynne did venture out to do some shopping but our initial plans of going for a family bike ride were postponed until tomorrow since it was 93F outside today. We emerged from our slumber in the afternoon to cook some dinner and water our thirsty garden!! A nice relaxing Saturday that we finished off with a few homebrews. Perfect.
 

 

Irish at Heart

This was a must post picture that randy took on Saturday evening when we were round there for dinner. As usual Randy and Lorraine have the national flags of all their visiting guests on the table whilst we eat dinner and Anja was drawn to them like a magnet. I'd like to be able to say she favored one flag over the other but you my audience would obviously see through that. I did think she looked good clutching this Irish flag however?

Portrait of a Girl!

With a little luck these musings will make it onto the blog, unlike last weeks efforts. The world cup started this week and it should be an interesting couple of weeks. We’re all looking forward to many great games of football. England got off to a good result yesterday, although they have yet to get off to a good start!!

Lynne has been away again all week so, Pat, Anja and myself have been fending for ourselves, quite ably I may add. She has been in Wisconsin all week but travels to the east coast today. She will be back Tuesday evening.

We have nothing but rain, rain and more rain here this weekend. Consequently, I found no better activity to amuse myself after all magazines including daily papers were read other than the manual to our new digital camera…things were desperate. Anyhow, two weeks ago you will remember me playing with shutter speed (without great success), this week it was the turn of the aperture settings and how it lends itself to good portrait photos. My shots below of Anja were the result of a few minutes playing this morning. Anja was not that cooperative so I had to make do with those. I’ll have lots of time to practice in the future.

Not much happening this side this coming week. It will be Pats last week before she returns to London.

Hope you all have a nice week.

Paul

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekend in Chicago!!

Arrggghhhhh!!!

Spent 10 minutes or so typing an update from our weekend in Chicago but the system crashed....It may or may never get added again, I'll have to see how enthusiastic I feel about it..sorry!!