Snow at Last

Snow at Last

It's always so beautiful. It's especially nice if the electricity doesn't fail.

I put up two pictures in the gallery. One's of our long suffering little Weber grill. The other is of the trees behind the house. So pretty.

If I allow one of me shoveling snow I'll post it -- maybe.

http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1216&c=10

Edited to add another picture: http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1217&c=10

 

Thank you Lynet. We've no snow to speak of this year in this part of the world. I set your pic as my new desktop. If I ever come visiting Baltimore I'll already know your garden ... I had another of your pics as a desktop for several months during part of last year ... I never get tired of looking at detailed photographs of trees.

That's a good camera you have there. What is it? What lens? hark at me! I'll be asking you for F-stop numbers next like I know what they mean

 

I love taking pictures of the trees. If I'd been born in another time and place I'd have happily believed in a spirit living in each one.

Meanwhile, the camera is a Kodak EasyShare DX6340 with the following lense (I'm giving you all the words because I don't know which ones matter ) : Schneider - Kreuznach Variogon 36mm-144mm (Equiv) AF 4x Optical.

:camera: Since Kodak and the camera together know so much more than I do about photography I turn it to the 'auto' setting. Then I aim and shoot. Composition, I suppose, is up to me. I've even aimed the camera straight up at the sky to take a picture of the clouds. It was mildly dramatic and I had that as my desktop for a long time.

It's so nice to hear that you used one of my pictures on your desktop for awhile. Maybe I should put up a couple more of my favorite tree pictures in the gallery. The cherry trees in front of the house in springtime, for instance. Now THAT's an awesome sight.

 

Well you do take a nice "snap" (aw that's mean ... you take a great photo, seriously! !!) I'd love to see your cherry trees. I have a horticultural phenomenon going on in my own small patch of nature. Some pink floral material is manifesting itself on the twiggy bits of a skeletal but tall (10-15 ft tall) deciduous shrubby thing. I can't make up my mind if it's a native cherry blossom gone nuts (it's in a north-facing location for heavenessakes!) or something altogether more exotic. Unortunately, although I do have contact with this house's previous owners (who might have the answer) the green-thumbed one is the one who is ga-ga due to the cruel afflictions of age-related decomposition, bless her heart. I love my "neglected" garden. I found a camelia this morning ... it'll burst into flowery goodness very soon and when it does I shall squeal with unashamed girlish glee and ... probably .. do an exultant stampy-feet dance (to the consternation of my eponymous cat) all over my small but perfectly formed patio ...

<sits back and waits patiently for cherry blossoms and camelias>

.... (I strongly suspect I was Japanese in a past life ... )

 

I was inspired to go search for pictures of the cherry trees. I was very disappointed in the pictures that I found. It seems that I'm more impressed with the pink petals all over the ground after they've fallen off the trees than I am when they're still blossoms on the branch. Pink snow everywhere. Fascinating, but hardly the image I wish to convey. We have 4 big old cherry trees in the front yard. I could never seem to get more than 2 of them in a picture at one time and the only acceptable picture, which I uploaded, has just 1 of the trees visible. This spring I will definitely try to get all four trees in one picture. They are spectacular.

http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1218&c=10
http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1219&c=10

I also found a very pretty fall picture.
http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1220&c=10

Actually, I found a number of pictures I really like but had forgotten about. I could go nuts here, loading all kinds of pictures. Think I'll go have a glass of wine instead.

Ok, I'm sorry--just one more because I like the drama in the crooked branches against against the soft morning light: http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1221&c=10

NOW, the wine.

 

Not snow, just a couple more pretty pictures

http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1222&c=10 The camera did such a fine job on these begonias.

http://forums.worldsims.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1223&c=10 Sight of the abandoned lawn mower here always makes me smile. I happen to know that the guy who left it there came indoors for a cold beer.

It's been fun, looking at my pictures again. I changed my desktop to the dark tree against the sunrise. Some pictures work better as a desktop just because it's easier to see the icons.

 

Thanks for those Lynet. I got me some great new desktops to last me months

Oh and I love that lawn mower too ... it is parked in so cavalier a manner it is almost jaunty.

 

Hey, Josh -- :eyebrow: :wideeyed::ducks::razz:

You like my pictures?

Where'd the pie in the face come from. Couldn't find it...

 

Oh no!



Josh wouldn't do that ... would he?

 

What beautiful pictures, Lynet. I'm a terrible photographer but I'll try to take some pictures of our street some time. Like you, I love trees. We have some beautiful flowering crabapples lining the middle of our street (we live on a pedestrian zone). In the spring and fall, or after it snows, they're simply breathtaking.

I do love my street.

 

Shhhh...I'm at work and just couldn't resist sneaking in here for a peek.

I might have to alt-tab to my Excel SS --

Although I can pat myself on the back for where I aim the camera before hitting the button, I must give credit to the camera. I don't have to worry about adjusting anything. I haven't even learned how to stop the flash if it's a little too dark for a picture. My husband went to the library and researched in Consumer Reports for which camera was best to give me for Christmas so I also give credit to him, as well as lots of hugs and kisses, etc.

But thanks for all the complements. I love taking the pictures and I love showing them to everyone. And I'm thrilled if anyone finds them useful for something, like a desktop.

As for the smileys, does Josh = :bandit: ? If so, I am :shocked: . Then again, the ads for smileys are popping up everywhere. Now they're even talking to you. I went downstairs and answered the front door one day because I heard someone yelling, "Hello." No one there! Turned out it was one of the stupid smiley ads. LOL, they DESERVE to be stolen.

p.s. I love that one Mirelly found, too.

 

I thought the majority of smileys were free, anyway.

My computer says hello to me too, when I visit this site. I hate that. I always turn off the volume.

 

Looked like a pie that hadn't been cooked yet.

Are there snowballs :fluffy: to throw out there in California? Mudballs, maybe?

I talked to my daughter Saturday. She's in Berkeley and she said it was 70 degrees. :sun:

 

Oh, don't tell me that!

 

LOL I was raised in fahrenheit, Josh ... but fine go ahead and torture me with your sub-tropical temperatures in Celsius as well!