A kind of hiatus...

I meant to post when we first came home, but I haven't really been feeling well.  We went on a family vacation to Walt Disney World for a week.  It was a lot of fun, but it was very hot, 90+ degrees most days we were there.

This picture was taken in Epcot, by the China exhibition.  It's one of my favorite shots.  I think the countries were one of the best parts of Epcot.  (Okay, the Nemo ride was pretty cool, too!)  The fireworks there were really great, and I wish we would have had a better spot to watch them, so I could have gotten pictures or something.  At Magic Kingdom, I was able to take some really nice pictures of the Wishes fireworks.

I took about 600 pictures, so I'm sure I'll be posting more of them eventually.  I'm currently working on a crocheting charity challenge that I've been neglecting since we left for our trip.  I really have to get back to that, since it's over mid-June.

Wax Museum

Back in 2004, my friend Jessica came to visit me.  We too a day to go to NYC to see Madame Tussauds' Wax Musuem.  I'd never been there, and I'd love to go again. I finally found the disk with my pictures, so I thought I'd post a picture from the museum. This is Albert Einstein, for anyone who doesn't recognize him.  *g*  I was using my first digital camera (which I still have), an Olympus.  

We also went to Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral.  It's almost impossible to get the whole cathedral in the shot, even from across the street.  Maybe next time I should bring my DSLR with me.  We finished off the day by seeing Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway.  I don't think it was out there too long, which was a shame.  I thought it was great.  Then again, I loved the movie.


I was hoping to go visit my parents this weekend and maybe take some pictures of all the snow they had, but between the amount of snow they had affecting the roads and my husband catching a cold, it just didn't happen.  We're going to try again next weekend.  Hopefully some of the snow will be gone so driving around will be easier.

Back from vacation

I went to visit my parents last weekend, so I wasn't really around to update my blog. Unfortunately, I didn't really get to take pictures. I'd intended to, but I forgot my camera before we headed to the touristy area of the county. I was driving, so I couldn't have gotten the shots of what I saw anyway. :(

One of the things I was working on last week was a baby sweater for my friends Rusel and Sarah. I got the pattern from Bella Bambina, a wonderful knitting and crocheting blog I found. This is the picture I took with my camera phone before I started to add the sleeves. Eventually I'll get started on my crochet blog so I don't clutter up this blog with more pictures of yarn.

Today I went to a Flickr workshop. It was interesting. Needless to say, I have a Flickr account now. *g* We also learned about Picnik, which is a photo editing site. (I now have an account there as well.) I already knew about Picnik, but it was interesting to get reacquainted with it.

So far I've only uploaded a few pictures to my Flickr, but I hope to add more this week. You can check out my Flickr page via the badge on the right.

Shelburne Farms

I finally found the box of photos that I've been looking for. It didn't have everything I thought was in there, but it did hold a few things that I wanted. The pictures I'm going to post today are from a trip to Vermont four years ago. I always wanted to go there in the fall, and it was so beautiful there. I'd love to go back.

One of the places we went was Shelburne Museum, which was founded in 1947 by Electra Havemeyer Webb. Mrs. Webb had 18th and 19th century buildings moved to the land from New England and New York to house the collections that are displayed there.

The first picture (up top) is just something I took on the grounds. The next picture (to the left) is a lighthouse that was relocated from Lake Champlain. I thought it was so odd to have it just standing in the middle of nowhere like it was. To the left of the lighthouse is the Ticonderoga, which is a steamboat that used to operate on Lake Champlain until the early 1950s. We approached from the other side of the steamboat, which is an even stranger sight standing in the middle of the grass on the grounds.

I would love to go back up there soon. Maybe next year. I don't know if we'd go back in the fall, but I'd like it if we did. This is my favorite time of year. I just wish that the weather had been better this year, because I'd really like to get out there and take some pictures. On the bright side, I'm almost done with my baby blanket. Just eight more inches to go before I can put the border on. I'll take more pictures of it once it's done.