catch up time . . .
Getting ready for Father's Day on Sunday. We'll have a cookout and there will be four fathers here.
I've ordered and received a new camera. I've always wanted a full frame and I've been saving my money for a long time. I got a Nikon d850. The lens I ordered has not come yet, but I discovered that two of my other lenses are compatible with the full frame, but I've been so darn busy lately I haven't had a chance to even try it out.
My sister egg_shell is flying in on Wednesday and will be here until the following Wednesday. I think it has been three years since we've seen each other. I can't wait! Then on Saturday we will have a family dinner here. I'm fixing lasagna, a big salad, garlic bread and a dessert.
We probably won't do much....swim, go to the beach at sunrise and sunset, and there's a huge mosaic mural downtown that I want to show her, and lunches out. We'll just talk and enjoy our time together, neither of us is much for sightseeing, plus we'll play around with the new camera. She's bringing her lensbaby lenses to try out on it.
The doctors ordered oxygen for Pete, a tank for at home and a portable one, too. They are supposed to deliver it this afternoon. He does get out of breath, but recovers pretty quickly. They have said for several years that he had Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, which he does have, but now they are also saying he has the beginnings of COPD. We're both managing and adapting to our lives as we get older. It's something when you're younger you don't think much about at all, but now, well, it's a daily topic for us, a big part of our lives with adjustments to be made and accepted.
It's hot! The rainy season for us is finally beginning. I've been watering like crazy, but there's nothing like that rain from above that really gets things growing.
The gallery is open full time now and things are beginning to get busy. A lot of members left us during the last 18 months, but we are getting quite a few new applicants now. I have retired from my advertising job there and now I am on the membership committee. There are four of us and we interview the applicants and see their art first, then we present them to the members to be juried in (or not). There have been very few over the years that we have rejected.
Last September I ordered seven sets of mirrored curtains. They were on backorder until just recently, (what a test of my patience that was!) but they finally came and we got them hung outside on the patio. I've been excitedly visualizing how they would look enclosing the part of the patio that is under a roof and I love them. Each one is about 3.5' wide by 6' long and they are far enough apart that they don't obstruct your vision at all. Soon after we hung them we got a lot of wind one day and I quickly tied & twisted each of them together with 6" pieces of wire. It only took me a few seconds time and they barely moved in the wind.
They are constantly moving and changing with the light. In the morning when the sun rises on the back of the house, they come alive the most. They dance and reflect in the pool, the patio, inside the house and just everywhere! And when it's dark they will pick up the tiniest bit of light from inside or outside and reflect in a totally different way. Pictures
In the next two pictures you can even see them reflecting in the water . . .
And this one I took a few days ago early one morning from inside the house . . .
I've ordered and received a new camera. I've always wanted a full frame and I've been saving my money for a long time. I got a Nikon d850. The lens I ordered has not come yet, but I discovered that two of my other lenses are compatible with the full frame, but I've been so darn busy lately I haven't had a chance to even try it out.
My sister egg_shell is flying in on Wednesday and will be here until the following Wednesday. I think it has been three years since we've seen each other. I can't wait! Then on Saturday we will have a family dinner here. I'm fixing lasagna, a big salad, garlic bread and a dessert.
We probably won't do much....swim, go to the beach at sunrise and sunset, and there's a huge mosaic mural downtown that I want to show her, and lunches out. We'll just talk and enjoy our time together, neither of us is much for sightseeing, plus we'll play around with the new camera. She's bringing her lensbaby lenses to try out on it.
The doctors ordered oxygen for Pete, a tank for at home and a portable one, too. They are supposed to deliver it this afternoon. He does get out of breath, but recovers pretty quickly. They have said for several years that he had Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, which he does have, but now they are also saying he has the beginnings of COPD. We're both managing and adapting to our lives as we get older. It's something when you're younger you don't think much about at all, but now, well, it's a daily topic for us, a big part of our lives with adjustments to be made and accepted.
It's hot! The rainy season for us is finally beginning. I've been watering like crazy, but there's nothing like that rain from above that really gets things growing.
The gallery is open full time now and things are beginning to get busy. A lot of members left us during the last 18 months, but we are getting quite a few new applicants now. I have retired from my advertising job there and now I am on the membership committee. There are four of us and we interview the applicants and see their art first, then we present them to the members to be juried in (or not). There have been very few over the years that we have rejected.
Last September I ordered seven sets of mirrored curtains. They were on backorder until just recently, (what a test of my patience that was!) but they finally came and we got them hung outside on the patio. I've been excitedly visualizing how they would look enclosing the part of the patio that is under a roof and I love them. Each one is about 3.5' wide by 6' long and they are far enough apart that they don't obstruct your vision at all. Soon after we hung them we got a lot of wind one day and I quickly tied & twisted each of them together with 6" pieces of wire. It only took me a few seconds time and they barely moved in the wind.
They are constantly moving and changing with the light. In the morning when the sun rises on the back of the house, they come alive the most. They dance and reflect in the pool, the patio, inside the house and just everywhere! And when it's dark they will pick up the tiniest bit of light from inside or outside and reflect in a totally different way. Pictures
In the next two pictures you can even see them reflecting in the water . . .
And this one I took a few days ago early one morning from inside the house . . .