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

New camera!

No actual picture from me today, unfortunately.  I haven't really had the time or inclination to take new pictures.  I've been busy crocheting baby items for a charity contest over at the Bella Bambina blog.  However, in anticipation of an upcoming family trip to Disney World, I ordered a new camera tonight.  It's the Canon PowerShot SX120SI.   It's going to replace my Samsung S85.  (Shh!  I don't want him to hear!  I still love the little guy, but it's time.)

With the exception of the Canon D90, which I wanted in the worst way, but it was way out of my price range, I tend to shy away from Canons.  Mostly because they can be a little pricey compared to other cameras.  This one had most of the features I was interested in, and the price wasn't too bad...especially since I had a nice sized gift card for Walmart that I used toward my purchase.

I'm going to try to take some pictures when I get my camera sometime next week, and I hope to post something here soon.  I'm so excited to try this camera out.

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.