Fish Hatchery

Last Saturday, we took our nieces to the Fish Hatchery.  When I asked her if she'd like to go, my seven year old niece asked me if there would be piranha there.  :D  I had to explain that they raise trout there to stock ponds and lakes in the area.  ( After looking at the website, I discovered they actually stock fish throughout the state and region, not just Long Island.)

The girls seemed to have a good time.  We bought a big container of fish food, and the fish go crazy when you toss a handful in their pool.  It's hard to make out individual fish in the pictures I took, so I'm posting a picture of the turtles sunning themselves.

Let's go Mets!

We went to see the Mets last week.  They lost the game, but at least it was a close one.  We had really good seats (my husband's company seats), and we had a good time.  This is one of the better pictures that I got.  I get very frustrated with the auto focus in the digital cameras. I find that sometimes the auto focus decides it likes to focus on things other than my intended subject.  I think I might have to play around with the manual focus on the Canon more often.  I miss using my old SLR sometimes, but I'm so spoiled by the immediateness of being able to see the digital pictures right away.

Physical therapy is slowly helping my arm.  At least I can use my left hand to type now, which is a very good thing.  :-)   Typing one-handed is never fun, especially when it's part of your job.    I'm hoping that I'll be back to my old self soon.  I would love to get out there and take more pictures for my blog.

Big Apple Circus

I'm going to physical therapy for my injuries, and I'm feeling a little better, but I'm still doing a lot of things one-handed.  It might be awhile before I post again, but I wanted to share a couple of pictures from tonight.

We went to the Big Apple Circus tonight.  It was really good.  Bello, the daredevil clown, is back with the circus, after eight years with Ringling Brothers.  It was at Ringling Brothers that I saw him a few years ago.



I took this picture of Bello while he was up near the top of the tent.  I think it's one of the better pictures of the night. I'm still getting used to the Canon, and no flash photography was allowed.  Many of the action shots I tried to take came out blurry.

We're going to a Mets game next week, and I'm hoping to get some good shots.  I would love to bring my DSLR, but I don't feel like lugging it with me, so I'll settle for playing with my Canon for now.  Hopefully I'll have something to post after the game.

Forced hiatus

Just wanted to let everyone know that I won't be posting for a bit. I did something to my back and have very limited use of my left arm.  Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, and hopefully he can do something.   It's driving me crazy not to be able to do most of the stuff I love.  Hopefully I'll be back soon.

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.

Bunny!

Most of the pictures I took this weekend were from my parents' deck.  I caught this bunny sleeping under the pine tree to the right earlier in the afternoon.  The tree is about halfway across their yard.  There's a crazy amount of rabbits running around my parents' neighborhood over the last few years.  I wonder why that is?

So excited!

I got my new camera in the mail on Friday before I left to visit my parents.  It takes such awesome far away shots.  However, this isn't one of them.  *g*  I was just fooling around with taking pictures of different things on my parents' deck and took this picture of a "wish" stuck in a spider web.

I'll post a few more pictures over the next few days.  I took some nice pictures across my parents' yard, and I was impressed with how they came out.  I can't wait to take this camera away on vacation.  :D