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December 19, 2008
My Christmas Tree - part 4
Well, tomorrow was not quite right. I didn't get most of the ornaments on until Sunday and the last trickled onto it Monday. Sadly my Tie Fighter and Defiant (Star Trek) ornaments do not fit in the new light sockets and I have yet to see about jury-rigging them. Otherwise the decorations and ornaments were a success!
The lack of tinsel, which I love, is due to our cats adoring all things glittery and we have enough trouble keeping Lana from knocking all the balls off the lower branches without enticing her to go higher on the tree.
Now if the slushy freezing rain will just change to snow, it might be a white Christmas. At least my parents home in NY seems to be getting a seanal coating of fluffy white :-).
Merry Pre-Christmas to ALL!!!!!
December 12, 2008
My Christmas Tree - part 3
Finally!! It has several days since we put up our tree and set the star atop it. But the lights are always more problematic with bad bulbs and colors that don't light, etc. But tonight the deed is Done! I may tweak the light placement here and there and replace a few more bulbs though.Tomorrow it is on to the decorations!!! Hooray! :-)
December 11, 2008
My Christmas Tree - part 2b
Well it has been a long and tiring week and I did not get the lights up on the tree yet :-( but that should happen torrow evening for Sure! (positive look) For now here is a pic of our very Bright Star!
December 7, 2008
My Christmas Tree - part 2
O K. Well both WCRS and I somehow allowed ourselves to get a tree that is just too big for the space it is supposed to go. Sure we have loads of headroom, but getting in and out of the door is like coming through the wardrobe into Narnia.Ah, but it is a beautiful and full tree and our house smells like a forest! :-)
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
December 6, 2008
My Christmas Tree - part 1
It is That time of year again :-). Christmas is only a few weeks away, it is the beginning of December, and we are out to get our tree.This year, as we do every year, we will get our Christmas Tree at Pine Run Corners Nusery. Sadly I am told it may be the last year we can get our tree here, ending a decades long tradition for our house. Apparently the town has plans to tear all the buildings down and redevelope the lot, but this is new news to me...we'll see.
In any case, here is the tree we picked for Christmas 2008.
December 5, 2008
My first Tone-Mapped Photograph
A night shot of the Southeast Lighthouse on Block Island. It was a 30 sec exposure to get the star detail and we "light painted" the building itself to get the illuminated effect. Unlike my other photographs that night, I combine two using HDR (Photomatix) and then tone-mapped the result to get what you see here.
Interesting! ;-)
P.S. My Flickr Gallery seems to be my most current source of photographs these days, so check it often! :-)